Sidney Elizabeth Turtschi

While she was stilling training at the Ballet School of Basel Theatre, Sidney's great talent earned her the Study Award Dance of Migros-Kulturprozent 2011 & 2012 and the Cultural Advancement Award for Young People Basel-Stadt 2013. From the season 2013/14 to 2017/18, she was a member of both Richard Wherlock's Ballet Theatre Basel and, for two years, of the independent company Carta Blanca Dance. Sidney danced in pieces by, amongst others, Stjin Celis, Johan Inger, Ed Wubbe, Richard Wherlock, Alexander Ekman, Alejandro Cerrudo and Hofesh Shechter – almost exclusively artists who also feature in the Gauthier Dance repertoire. Sidney joined Gauthier Dance in the 2018/19 season and has proved a real asset for the company. As could be seen, amongst others, in the sensational pas de deux IRA (Wrath) by Sascha Waltz from the concept evening The Seven Sins and, most recently, Monstruo Grande by Marco Goecke from the Theaterhaus anniversary programme FireWorks.