Lapzeson Noemi

She received rhythm lessons from Dalcroze in kindergarten and began playing the piano. From the age of ten, she took lessons in modern dance and composition with Ana Itelman. She completed her training at the Juilliard School in New York, where she was taught by renowned personalities such as Merce Cunningham, Doris Humphrey, Antony Tudor, José Limon and Alwin Nikolais.

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From 1959, she was a dancer with the Martha Graham Company, danced as a soloist - including the role of Clytemnestre - and taught at the Graham School in New York. She lived in Geneva from 1960, choreographed more than 40 pieces and became the most influential teacher of modern dance in French-speaking Switzerland. In 1989, she founded her company Cie. Vertical Danse and the ADC, Association pour la Danse Contemporaine, a creative center for Swiss dance.