Laura Tanner

Laura Tanner lives and works in Lausanne. From 1967, Tanner took lessons in classical, contemporary, and jazz dance in Geneva. From 1971 to 1974, she attended the Atelier de danse de Genève under the direction of Myriam Degan. A scholarship subsequently enabled her to study at the London School of Contemporary Dance, graduating with a diploma in 1978 (1975–78). From 1979 to 1982, she pursued further training in New York with Merce Cunningham and Jennifer Muller and danced in various independent companies.

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In 1982, Tanner returned to Geneva and became an assistant to Noemi Lapzeson. Alongside this, she taught at the École de Danse de Genève and Beatriz Consuelo’s Ballet Junior. She made her choreographic debut in 1984 with *Tiempo*, a duet with Diane Decker, which was presented at the La Bâtie-Festival de Genève. In 1993, she founded her own company, with which she won the Prix romand des spectacles indépendants in 1995.