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# Joshua Monten

dance company

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## Posts

- [Les Indes galantes](https://joshuamonten.com/les-indes-galantes/) - Choreograph by Joshua Monten for actors in this production of Henrik Ibsen's play at Theater Orchester Biel Solothurn, directed by Katharina Rupp
- [My Fair Lady](https://joshuamonten.com/my-fair-lady/) - Choreography by Joshua Monten for dancers and singers in the musical by Frederick Loewe at the Staatstheater Nürnberg, directed by Thomas Enzinger
- [Anger Management](https://joshuamonten.com/anger-management/) - A celebration of the volcano inside each of us. Anger can be beautiful. Especially when it's expressed through dance
- [YES/NO](https://joshuamonten.com/yes-no/) - A new production about the dance of consent. Full of radical positivity, profound negativity, and quite a few mixtures of the two.
- [Kill Your Darlings](https://joshuamonten.com/kill-your-darlings/) - Apocalyptic all-terrain dance performance for two dancers, designed to be performed anywhere, indoors or outdoors, day or night. It makes a big mess.
- [Game Theory](https://joshuamonten.com/game-theory/) - Before dance became art, before it tried to express anything, before it was a ceremony or a technique, it was a game.
- [Superheroes](https://joshuamonten.com/superheroes/) - A community dance project choreograpfed by Joshua Monten, commissioned by the Bern:Ballett and performed in the Stadttheater Bern in June 2009
- [Faking It](https://joshuamonten.com/faking-it/) - A shamelessly rhythmical boot-camp forest-rave flash-mob mash-up
- [Romeo, Romeo, Romeo](https://joshuamonten.com/romeo-romeo-romeo/) - Dance is a mating ritual. This dance production for four Romeos (one of whom is performed by a woman) shows a thrillingly up close form of courtship.
- [How to Do Things with Words (outdoors)](https://joshuamonten.com/how-to-do-things-with-words-outdoors/) - A captivating as de deus between language and movement – between bodies and graphic text...
- [Platée](https://joshuamonten.com/platee/) - Choreography for the Ballet National du Rhin in the “ballet bouffon” by Jean-Philippe Rameau. Winner of the prize “Meilleurs créateurs d’élements scéniques”
- [Little Joy](https://joshuamonten.com/little-joy/) - An all-terrain vehicle of mass destruction, inspired by the joyful arts of stage fighting, slapstick and Foley sound effects.
- [Joy](https://joshuamonten.com/joy/) - “Joy” is an evening-length dance production for five charmingly violent dancers. It explores the unexpectedly joyful art of stage fighting.
- [How to Do Things with Words (indoors)](https://joshuamonten.com/how-to-do-things-with-words/) - Pas de deux between bodies and text “How to Do Things with Words” is a pas de deux between bodies and graphic text, between language and movement. How does one dance with text? What new meanings arise when dancers manipulate objects printed with words and phrases? The results range from the literal to the poetic,
- [The Pursuit of Happiness](https://joshuamonten.com/pursuit/) - Before dance became art, before it tried to express anything, before it was a ceremony or a technique, it was a game.
- [About Strange Lands and People](https://joshuamonten.com/about-strange-lands-and-people/) - Dance-theater production about the intersection of dance and sign language, designed for both hearing and hearing-impaired audiences.
- [Delirio Amoroso](https://joshuamonten.com/delirio-amoroso/) - Recent studies show that romantic love is nearly indistinguishable on a neurochemical level from obsessive-compusive disorder.
- [Doggy Style](https://joshuamonten.com/doggy-style/) - Dance and sign language production. The athletic poetry of canine movement is transposed onto human bodies and minds. Suitable for both hearing and hearing-impaired audiences.
- [Concert dans le goût théâtral](https://joshuamonten.com/concert-dans-le-gout-theatral/) - Collaboration between the historical music ensemble Die Freitagsakademie and choreographer Joshua Monten. Based on François Couperin's baroque masterpiece.
- [Linearity](https://joshuamonten.com/linearity/) - Daring feats of precision and thrilling symmetry. It's not easy being straight.
- [ดานส์เครส ๒o๒๑ / Dance Craze 2021](https://joshuamonten.com/dance-craze-2021/) - Afro-Bavarian square-dancing flashmob for 300 Ecuadorian dancers, performed in Guayaquil as part of the 2018 Fragmentos de Junio dance festival.
- [Dance Craze 2020](https://joshuamonten.com/dance-craze-2020/) - Afro-Bavarian square-dancing flashmob for 300 Ecuadorian dancers, performed in Guayaquil as part of the 2018 Fragmentos de Junio dance festival.
- [La parade nuptiale](https://joshuamonten.com/la-parade-nuptiale/) - Choreography for the junior company MARCHEPIED(CH) in Lausanne CHOREOGRAPHY Joshua Monten DANCERS Jasmin Sisti Léna Bagutti Solène Schnüriger Calvin Take Chi Ngan PERFORMANCE HISTORY 27-28 June 2020 (2x) — Théâtre Sévelin 26, Lausanne (CH) 8 April 2020 — Arsenic, Lausanne (CH) — CANCELLED: COVID-19 1 May 2020 — First Friday, Biel/Bienne (CH) — CANCELLED: COVID-19
- [Die Fledermaus](https://joshuamonten.com/die-fledermaus/) - Choreography for dancers and singers in the operetta by Johann Strauss, Jr. at the Opéra National du Rhin in a co-production with the Staatstheater Nürnberg
- [The Election of Cardinal Ratzinger as Pope Benedict XVI](https://joshuamonten.com/the-election-of-cardinal-ratzinger-as-pope-benedict-xvi/) - Dance creation for four dancers, depicting the funeral of Pope John Paul II, the papal conclave, and the coronation of Pope Benedict XVI.
- [Dance Craze 2013](https://joshuamonten.com/dance-craze-2013/) - Flash mob choreography for 100 dancers, commissioned by the nation-wide Swiss dance festival Das Tanzfest 2013 and performed on the Waisenhausplatz in Bern
- [Three Holidays](https://joshuamonten.com/three-holidays/) - New choreography by Joshua Monten for Bachelors students in contemporary dance at the Zürcher Hochschule der Künste (ZHdK).
- [As You Like It](https://joshuamonten.com/as-you-like-it-wie-es-euch-gefallt/) - Choreography by Joshua Monten for actors in a theater production of William Shakespeare’s comedy directed by David Mouchtar-Samorai
- [Chillin'](https://joshuamonten.com/chillin/) - Community dance project for 28 ninth-graders from Münchenbuchsee, commissioned by the Bern Ballett and performed as part of five Bern Ballett performances
- [La bureaucratie éternelle](https://joshuamonten.com/la-bureaucratie-eternelle/) - Community dance piece for twelve teenagers at the Stadttheater ChurCommissioned by the “Verein Chur tanzt” for the showcase “HORIZONTE”
- [Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg](https://joshuamonten.com/die-meistersinger-von-nurnberg/) - Choreography for dancers and singers in the opera by Richard Wagner at the Staatstheater Nürnberg directed by David Mountar-Samorai
- [Samson et Dalila](https://joshuamonten.com/samson-et-dalila/) - Choreography for dancers and singers in the opera by Camille Saint-Saëns at the Staatstheater Nürnberg, directed by David Mouchtar-Samorai
- [Gruppe Junger Hund](https://joshuamonten.com/gruppe-junger-hund/) - Choreography for actors in the play “Gruppe Junger Hund” by Händl Klaus at the Stadttheater Bern. Finalist at the 2011 Heidelberger Stückemarkt.
- [Dogs in a Park](https://joshuamonten.com/dogs-in-a-park/) - Community dance project for 43 dancers, commissioned by the Bern Ballett and performed as part of three Bern Ballett performances in June, 2010
- [Jabberwocky](https://joshuamonten.com/jabberwocky/) - New dance creation for 10 dancers created during the Bessie Schönberg Choreographers Residency at "The Yard" dance festival in Chilmark, MA, USA
- [The Misanthrope](https://joshuamonten.com/the-misanthrope-der-menschenfeind/) - Choreography by Joshua Monten for actors in a theater production of Molière’s comedy at the Stadttheater Bern, directed by Stefan Otteni
- [Kick Me!](https://joshuamonten.com/production-post-template/) - Community dance project for teenagers, commissioned by the Bern:Ballett and performed in the Stadttheater Bern in May 2008
- [Romeo and Juliet](https://joshuamonten.com/romeo-and-juliet/) - Choreography by Joshua Monten for actors in a theater production of William Shakespeare’s tragedy at the Theater Konstanz
- [Le Bal](https://joshuamonten.com/le-bal/) - Choreography for actors in this theater production, based on a concept from Jean-Claude Penchenat, at Theater Orchester Biel Solothurn
- [Peer Gynt](https://joshuamonten.com/peer-gynt/) - Choreograph by Joshua Monten for actors in this production of Henrik Ibsen's play at Theater Orchester Biel Solothurn, directed by Katharina Rupp
- [Zar und Zimmermann](https://joshuamonten.com/zar-und-zimmermann/) - Choreography by Joshua Monten for 35 singers in the comic opera by Albert Lortzing at the Theater Biel/Solothurn, directed by Beat Wyrsch
- [Eugene Onegin](https://joshuamonten.com/eugene-onegin/) - Choreography by Joshua Monten for 36 singers in the opera by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky at Theater Biel/Solothurn, directed by Andreas Rosar
- [Barbe-bleue](https://joshuamonten.com/barbe-bleue/) - Choreography for singers and dancers in the operetta by Jacques Offenbach. A coproduction of Opera Zuid, Opéra National de Lorraine and Angers Nantes Opéra
- [Looslis Kinder](https://joshuamonten.com/looslis-kinder/) - Choreography for 27 youth actors in the play by H. Schneider, about the repressive Swiss system of “administratively” dealing with juvenile delinquency
- [La princesse de Trébizonde](https://joshuamonten.com/la-princesse-de-trebizonde/) - Choreography by Joshua Monten for singers and acrobats in the operetta by Jacques Offenbach, directed by Waut Koeken, conducted by Laurent Campellone
- [Nightlife](https://joshuamonten.com/nightlife/) - Choreography by Joshua Monten for the Bern dance company “7ELLES”, featuring music by Billie Holiday, premiered at Brückenpfeiler Theater
- [Dance Craze 2014](https://joshuamonten.com/dance-craze-2014/) - Flash mob choreography by Joshua Monten for 50 dancers, commissioned by the nation-wide Swiss dance festival Das Tanzfest
- [Le prophète](https://joshuamonten.com/le-prophete/) - Choreography by Joshua Monten for singers and dancers in the grand opera by Giacomo Meyerbeer at the Staatstheater Braunschweig, Germany
- [Wrath](https://joshuamonten.com/wrath/) - A new choreography by Joshua Monten for the Tanzkompanie St. Gallen’s program “Sieben,” based on the theme of the Seven Deadly Sins
- [Tanzakademie: Hunters & Gathers](https://joshuamonten.com/tanzakademie-jager-sammler-hunters-gathers/) - Dance outreach program for three school classes from Basel featuring a total of 55 young dancers. Commissioned by the Kaserne Basel.
- [Dance Crazy Flashmob](https://joshuamonten.com/dance-crazy-flashmob-2/) - Afro-Bavarian square-dancing flashmob for 300 Ecuadorian dancers, performed in Guayaquil as part of the 2018 Fragmentos de Junio dance festival.

## Pages

- [Welcome](https://joshuamonten.com/) - The Joshua Monten Dance Company creates both indoor and outdoor dance productions for a wide range of audiences. Tour dates, news, productions, videos...
- [Calendar](https://joshuamonten.com/calendar/) - Complete listing of all upcoming performances, tours, showings and past events of the Joshua Monten dance company.
- [Company Class](https://joshuamonten.com/company-class/) - During its creation periods, the Joshua Monten Dance Company opens its daily morning company class to dancers in the Bern region.
- [Contact/Newsletter](https://joshuamonten.com/contact/) - info@joshuamonten.com
- [Audition Notice](https://joshuamonten.com/jobs/) - The Joshua Monten Dance Company is looking for dancers for the creation of the new dance production “YES/NO.” Rehearsals and performances will take place mainly in Bern, Switzerland from January to May 2026. WHO We’re looking for two professional contemporary dancers (M/F/X) who are inventive, theatrically gifted, have a strong sense of musicality and at
- [Productions](https://joshuamonten.com/productions/) - Game Theory. Romeo, Romeo, Romeo. Little Joy. Joy. Kill Your Darlings. Doggy Style. Delirio Amoroso. About Strange Lands and People.
- [Biography](https://joshuamonten.com/biography/) - The Swiss-American choreographer Joshua Monten studied literature and cultural anthropology before discovering dance at the late age of 20.
- [Calendar](https://joshuamonten.com/calendar-2/) - Upcoming events. Past events.
- [Side Projects](https://joshuamonten.com/side-projects/) - Joshua Monten choreographs regularly for theater, opera and dance outreach projects. He also works as a guest choreographer for established dance companies.

## Slides

- [Auto Draft](https://joshuamonten.com/home_slider/auto-draft/)

## Portfolio

- [Petals](https://joshuamonten.com/portfolio/106/)
- [Night Running](https://joshuamonten.com/portfolio/night-running/)
- [The Giveback](https://joshuamonten.com/portfolio/the-giveback/)
- [Fire Mountain](https://joshuamonten.com/portfolio/fire-mountain/)
- [Nectar Refresh](https://joshuamonten.com/portfolio/nectar-refresh/)
- [Through the glass](https://joshuamonten.com/portfolio/through-the-glass/)

## Categories

- [Dance Production](https://joshuamonten.com/category/dance-production/)
- [Theater](https://joshuamonten.com/category/theater/)
- [Opera/Musical](https://joshuamonten.com/category/opera/)
- [Outreach](https://joshuamonten.com/category/outreach/)
- [Commission](https://joshuamonten.com/category/commission/)

## Project Categories

- [Branding](https://joshuamonten.com/project-type/branding/)
- [Digital](https://joshuamonten.com/project-type/digital/)
- [Side Projects](https://joshuamonten.com/project-type/side-projects/)
- [Productions!](https://joshuamonten.com/project-type/photography/)