Decker Diane

Diane Decker completed her training in Lausanne and in the USA with Martha Graham, Merce Cunningham and Alvin Ailey, among others. From 1975, she worked in Lausanne and Geneva and, in addition to her own choreographic work, developed numerous projects with other dance and cultural professionals such as Philippe Saire, Laura Tanner, Dominique Genton and Pascal Auberson.

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Together with Noemi Lapzeson and Armand Deladoey, she founded the company Vertical Danse in 1989, where she worked as a dancer and choreographer. In 1992, Decker left the company, which was subsequently continued by Noemi Lapzeson.

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Diane Decker has been teaching contemporary dance since 1975 and was president of the Association Vaudoise de Danse Contemporaine (AVDC) from 1993 to 1999. In 1979, she was awarded 1st prize at the Concours international de chorégraphie in Nyon for the piece Faux-à-Face with Dominique Genton. In 1988 she was awarded the Prix jeunes créateurs de la Fondation vaudoise.

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Diane Decker's work has been an important part of the dance scene in the canton of Vaud and Geneva since the 1980s and marks the beginning of contemporary dance creation in French-speaking Switzerland.