THE AIR BETWEEN US

Chris Leuenberger
© Silvia Rohrbach

Breathe with us and become part of a larger breathing body moving through public space between Tanzhaus and Museumsquartier Bern in October 2026!

Chris Leuenberger and Benjamin Sunarjo invite you to become part of a collective breathing body moving through the city. During this extraordinary walk, you will rediscover breathing as a vital connection and community-building experience where the invisible becomes tangible. With simple instructions, you will explore your breathing spaces, dance with them or simply listen to your own breath.

This performative breath walk was developed with participants in a series of free breathing and movement workshops. THE AIR BETWEEN US premiered at Tanzfest Bern in May 2025.

Concept: Chris Leuenberger and Benjamin Sunarjo
Mediation: Pascale Altenburger
Dramaturgy: Anne-Laure Sahy
Production: Chris Leuenberger Produktionen
Breath walk developed with: Lilian, Sue, Iris, Monika, Pamela, Katinka, Christoph, Beat, Laura, Elsbeth

Kindly supported by: Kultur Stadt Bern, SWISSLOS Kultur Kanton Bern, Burgergemeinde Bern, Ernst Göhner Stiftung, BEKB Förderfonds, Bürgi Willert Stiftung, Gesellschaft zu Ober Gerwern, BETA, Tanzfest Bern 2025

Past performances:

May 15, 16 2025 Tanzfest Bern dastanzfest.ch

Upcoming Performances:

October 16, 17, 18 2026 Tanzhaus Bern & Museumsquartier Bern

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Published by Chris Leuenberger

Chris Leuenberger studied theater at the Pacific Conservatory of the Performing Arts (USA) and dance and choreography at the School for New Dance Development (NL). Based in Bern as a freelance choreographer and dancer, Chris collaborates with different artists in various contexts and constellations, keeps developing his own work and performs for others. Through the practice of yoga and pranayama he has become interested in the choreographic potential of breath, a fascination made visible and tangible throughout his artistic work. Since 2014 Leuenberger has started to collaborate more closely with author and theatre director Marcel Schwald, developing a body of work that merges choreography and autobiographical material. Their documentary dance performances KREUTZBERG (2015), EF_FEMININITY (2018) and TOUCH ISOLATION (2021) examine pressing social issues connected to gender and identity politics. While KREUTZBERG was commissioned with the Swiss culture grant "Tanzerbe Schweiz" in 2014, EF_FEMININITY was invited to the Theater Festival Impulse in Düsseldorf and the Sélection Suisse in Avignon in 2019, and TOUCH ISOLATION was selected by the Programmers' Fund of Reso - Swiss Dance Network.

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