Try-Out: Balance

Lara Schawalder grew up in the Zurich Oberland. At the age of 20, she went to Paris for seven years, attended the ECM-ISAS musical school and trained at the Les Noctambules circus school, where she specialized in floor acrobatics and aerial silk. Since then, she has worked at home and abroad as an artist and is regularly teaching children, teenagers and adults.

Jeele Johannsen, born in 1997 and raised in Berlin, has sought to develop his skills equally in the fields of theater, dance, acrobatics, and music. Among other things, he created a dance-theater piece that was selected by the Tanztreffen der Jugend (2016), gave concerts as a singer-songwriter, toured as a performer with Zirkus Chnopf (Zurich) in 2017, and earned his BA in Physical Theater from the Accademia Teatro Dimitri in 2020. Together with Margot Prod’hom, he produced the full-length solo piece “Die Qual der Wahl” and, most recently, the production “ERWACHEN” at the Theater der Künste in Zurich. With his recent Master’s degree in Acting from the Zurich University of the Arts, he is active in various projects at theaters and in the independent arts scene as an actor, acrobat, dancer, musician, choreographer, and director.