Pellaton Ursula

Ursula Pellaton has been a passionate visitor to opera and dance events since her youth and has followed the events as a journalist and historian for almost as long. She has observed and written for the daily newspapers Landbote, Zürichsee Zeitung, Neue Zürcher Zeitung and for specialist journals in Switzerland and Germany.

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Her almost lexical knowledge of these art forms is extraordinary. Pellaton's enthusiasm began in 1963 with a performance of Giselle in Zurich. At university, she studied Russian as a minor subject and traveled to St. Petersburg many times to research Russian ballet. She has seen Giselle, The Nutcracker and Swan Lake countless times in various performances and has always written well-founded and tangibly enthusiastic reviews of these works, which have so fundamentally shaped many people's understanding of dance to this day.

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Pellaton also focuses on the history of dance in Switzerland. She is co-founder of the Archives suisses de la danse and mediathek tanz.ch. In addition to her activities at festivals and in associations, she also conceived an exhibition on the expressive dancer Sigurd Leeder, who shaped an entire generation of Swiss dance makers.