Johanna Hilari is a dance researcher and dramaturg. She grew up bilingual (German/Spanish) in La Paz, Bolivia, andstudied Dance / Theatre Studies, German Language and Literature and World Arts at the Universities of Bern and Paris 8.In 2022 finished her PhD with a thesis entitled «Expanded Choreography – Expanded Cinema. Choreografische Verfahren der Erweiterung» at the University of Bern, where she researched and taught until the end of 2023. In November 2024,she returned to the Institute of Theatre Studies at the University of Bern as a postdoc as part of the project «SocialChoreographies», funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation.
Since 2013 she has been working as a freelance dramaturg in the field of contemporary dance and performance, especiallyin Switzerland. She worked with the choreographers Anna Anderegg, Johanna Heusser, Emma Murray, Pol Pi and thecollective Trop cher to share, amongst others. In 2023/2024 she was dramaturg of the Danse&Dramaturgie programmeinitiated by the Théâtre Sevelin 36.
Between 2019 and 2021, she was a member of Forschungs- und Nachwuchsförderungskommission of the Faculty ofHumanities and History at the University of Bern, she is currently a member of the Federal Jury for the Performing Artsand, together with Mirjam Hildbrand, chairs the Konzeptförderung Jury of the City of Zurich.
