Edouard Hue is a choreographer whose work has established a strong presence on the international dance scene through a physical, instinctive and deeply sensory choreographic language.
Since founding Beaver Dam Company in Geneva in 2014, he has developed a repertoire of nine creations, including All I Need, Dive and Flowers, which have toured throughout Switzerland and internationally. Alongside his work with his own company, he is regularly invited to create for international dance companies and ballet ensembles.
His commissioned works include No Matter for Gauthier Dance (Stuttgart), Titan for Ballet Basel, The Firebird for the Ballet de l’Opéra Grand Avignon, and Skinny Hearts for the Bayerisches Staatsballett in Munich, at the invitation of Angelin Preljocaj and Laurent Hilaire. In 2026, he created The Game of Life for Scottish Dance Theatre, followed by a new creation inspired by Maurice Ravel’s Histoires naturelles for the Ballet de l’Opéra national du Rhin in 2027.
Before developing his work as a choreographer, Edouard Hue pursued a career as a dancer, working with Hofesh Shechter, Damien Jalet and Olivier Dubois. These experiences have shaped a choreographic practice in which virtuosity, precision and physical sensation are closely intertwined. In 2019, his career as a performer was recognised with the Swiss Dance Award for “Outstanding Male Dancer”.
His choreographic language is built around an intense physicality, in which structure and precision of movement create the conditions for instinctive freedom. Through his work, Edouard Hue seeks less to impose a particular form than to allow physical states to emerge, moving between power, vulnerability and emotional release.
Alongside his creative work, he regularly shares his repertoire and approach to movement with numerous training institutions, including the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK), the Greek National Opera Dance School, the École de danse contemporaine de Montréal, Ballet Junior de Genève, and SEAD – Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance.
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.