about me

Swiss choreographer Philipp Egli has worked for over 25 years in the field of contemporary dance and cultural education. He has initiated, elaborated and choreographed diverse productions, has created dance in various spaces and done nearly 60 choreographies until today. He is engaged in the freelance as well as in the established scene and has worked as a dancer/performer, choreographer, company leader, ballet director and as an instructor.

At present Philipp Egli is engaged mainly as the artistic director and choreographer for egli_items and MOIRA tanztheater, as the director and teacher at TANZraum in Affoltern am Albis, and as an instructor at Tanzwerk 101 and the Heilpädagogische Hochschule in Zurich.

Philipp first started working as a dancer with Cie. Philippe Saire and ROSAS (Anne Teresa De Keersmaecker) in Brussels continuing with his own work with the founding of his own company MOLTeNi in Zurich in 1995. He thereafter led the dance company of Theater St. Gallen and the theater’s dance school from 2000-2009. His series of site-specific works became famous and his dance in the train engine depot (Kultur Zentrum Lokremise) helped establish it as the new cultural center of St. Gallen.

In 2009 Philipp co-led the Swiss-wide first course of education for contemporary dance at Zurich University of the Arts.

2012 to 2016 he co-led the legendary Swiss visual and masked theater group Mummenschanz.

In the same period, he founded his new label egli_items, aiming to promote further experimental, contemporary dance, having the objective to design and realize unusual, original choreography with the main focus on movement.

View a list of Philipp’s work until 2019 as a downloadable PDF: