Edouard Hue is above all a dancer who puts his physicality at the service of pure movement. As a dancer, he explores extremes with choreographers Hofesh Shechter, Damien Jalet and Olivier Dubois. Nourished by these contrasting experiences, Hue constantly seeks to push the limits of the body and movement, exploring extraordinary sensations. In 2019, he received the Swiss Dance Prize as an “Exceptional Dancer”.
In 2014, he founded the Beaver Dam Company, based in Geneva (Switzerland), with which he affirms his vision of dance as an ode to emotional release, transcended by demanding choreographic complexity. In 11 years with the company, he has created nine original works in solo, duo, trio, quintet, septet and nonet, including the major pieces All I Need and Dive. His creations, recognized on the international scene, are acclaimed by critics.
Edouard Hue also creates choreographic commissions for prestigious companies: in 2018, he composed the “Domine Jesu” section for Requiem by Yoann Bourgeois, remounted Into Outside in 2019 for the Frontier Danceland Company (Singapore), created No Matter in 2020 for the Gauthier Dance Company (Stuttgart), Titan in 2022 for the Ballet Basel, and The Firebird in 2023 for the Ballet of the Grand-Avignon Opera. In July 2024, Angelin Preljocaj and Laurent Hilaire invite him to create Skinny Hearts for the Bayerisches Staatsballett (Munich). In 2026, he will continue his work with the Geneva Chamber Orchestra and the Ballet of the Grand Théâtre de Genève for the Electrofaunes event (Geneva) and he will create a new piece for the Scottish Dance Theater (Dundee). He will revisit Natural Histories by Maurice Ravel for the Ballet du Rhin (Mulhouse) in 2027.
Concurrently, Edouard Hue transmits his repertoire to renowned institutions around the world: ZHdK – Zurich University of the Arts (Switzerland), Greek National Opera Dance School (Greece), Dance Area Jeune Ballet (Switzerland), the School of Contemporary Dance of Montreal (Canada), the Ballet Junior de Genève (Switzerland), SEAD – Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance (Austria), the National Superior Conservatory of Music and Dance of Paris (France) and Le Marchepied (Switzerland), among others.
To dance is to explore an inner landscape.
It's to bring forth buried forces.
It's to consent to being transformed, displaced.
Artistic Manifesto
I seek a dance that overflows. That vibrates at the border of ecstasy and control. I want it abundant, inhabited by an inner necessity, an intimate pulsation.
I create to feel, to go through, to transmit a state. Each project is a physical expression, a precipitation of sensations, an organic dramaturgy, constructed in the shock of the body with itself, with others, with the world.
I work with rigor, but not to domesticate movement: I organize it to better liberate it. I want the structure to support instinct, for precision to become a springboard towards abandonment. It’s in this tension – in this in-between – that my dance is invented.
The gesture is never decorative, never demonstrative. It is lived, deep, necessary. I seek to put bodies in crisis, to push them to their limits, to reveal their fragility, their power, their truth. I imagine my pieces as spaces of awakening, where each performer can abandon themselves to a moving, demanding, exhilarating material. It’s not about achieving a form, but letting oneself be changed by the process.
I position myself in doing, in acting, in a proactive energy that pushes me to expose myself, to transmit, to embody.
For me, transmitting is not about teaching a technique. It’s about opening a path. Allow each body to find its own vocabulary, to dig into instinct, into the quality of movement, into pure sensation. Offer a space of trust and risk.
I don’t choreograph to provide answers. I choreograph to create states of body, states of presence. I believe in a dance that overwhelms, that shifts perspectives, that reminds us that the most radical freedom can be born from the most precise constraint.