The exhibition «Suzanne Perrottet. After Dada, After Dance» is on view until May 17, 2026. It centers an influential yet long-overlooked figure of twentieth-century dance and performance in Zurich.
A dancer, musician, and pedagogue, Perrottet moved between avant-garde networks while developing an independent approach to movement, pedagogy, and artistic expression. Drawing on photographs, documents, and dance notations shown publicly on a larger scale for the first time, the exhibition asks how dance, bodies, and performance can be inscribed into history. Expanded over time through performances and activations by invited contemporary artists the exhibition traces dance as a site of liberation, resistance, and renewed imagination – then and now.
Performances and new works will be presented by Tarren Johnson & Joel Cocks, New Kyd, OOR Saloon & Elaine Mitchener, and Thibault Lac.
The exhibits are collected from the archives of Kunsthaus Zürich, SAPA Foundation (Lausanne), the Perrottet family estate, Harald Szeemann’s estate at the State Archives of the Canton of Ticino, Niklaus Stauss, among others.
