The Company

Gauthier Dance//Dance Company Theaterhaus Stuttgart is a young, dynamic company of 16 highly individual, versatile artists, directed by the dancer, choreographer and musician Eric Gauthier, who is also a charismatic dance ambassador with a great rapport with his audience. Set up in October 2007, the company established itself in the German dance scene with record speed and has long since become an international brand. 

The repertoire includes works by Gauthier himself as well as famous contemporary choreographers such as Mauro Bigonzetti, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Marie Chouinard, Sharon Eyal, Andonis Foniadakis, William Forsythe, Itzik Galili, Jiří Kylián, Lightfoot/León, Hans van Manen, Marcos Morau, Ohad Naharin und Sasha Waltz. You can find more information about the current repertoire here.

In addition to the performances at its home base Theaterhaus Stuttgart, the company is busy touring to international dance cities including Toronto, New York, Tel Aviv, Venice, Amsterdam, St. Petersburg, Monaco, Québec City, Montréal, Berlin and Chicago. Gauthier Dance//Dance Company Theaterhaus Stuttgart is the German Highlight in the yearbook of the specialist magazine tanz 2022 as well as Company of the Season in the tanznetz critics' survey of the 2024/25 season.

Parallel to its growing fame, Gauthier Dance has intensified collaborations with international star choreographers – above all with the Artists in Residence Marco Goecke (January 2019 to summer 2023), Hofesh Shechter (since summer 2021), Barak Marshall (since the 2024/25 season) and Aszure Barton (since the 2025/26 season).

Even during the pandemic the company proved pretty unstoppable. In the winter and spring of 2021, an encouraging initiative attracted a great deal of attention beyond the dance world: For The Dying Swans Project, 16 choreographers, 16 videographers and 16 composers created a solo for each member of Gauthier Dance – available free of charge in the media library of the German TV channel 3sat. The response was overwhelming and even German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier informed himself about the project in a live chat with Eric Gauthier.

The success story continued with the concept evenings Swan Lakes (2021) with world premieres by Marie Chouinard, Marco Goecke, Hofesh Shechter and Cayetano Soto as well as The Seven Sins (2022), in which Aszure Barton, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Sharon Eyal, Marco Goecke, Marcos Morau, Hofesh Shechter and Sasha Waltz each transformed a mortal sin into a dance piece. They were followed by 15 YEARS ALIVE in the 2022/23 anniversary season and the four-part programme ELEMENTS (2024) with new creations by Mauro Bigonzetti, Sharon Eyal, Andonis Foniadakis and Louise Lecavalier. The 2024/25 season set further milestones with two spectacular new productions. Mauro Bigonzetti, Virginie Brunelle, Stijn Celis, Dominique Dumais, Andonis Foniadakis, Marco Goecke, Johan Inger, Barak Marshall, Benjamin Millepied, and Sofia Nappi congratulated Theaterhaus on its 40th birthday as a cultural beacon for Stuttgart with ten new creations for the programme FireWorks. In the summer of 2025, the hosts opened the COLOURS International Dance Festival with the sensational world premiere of Turning of Bones by the British choreographer Akram Khan.

In addition to the „normal“ performances, Gauthier Dance has been involved in a pioneering socio-cultural programme from the very beginning: the Gauthier Dance Mobile brings dance to people who cannot come to the theatre themselves and visits institutions such as retirement homes, hospitals or homes for people with disabilities. 

Since 2022, Theaterhaus and Eric Gauthier have opened a new chapter in this outreach programme with the MOVES FOR FUTURE initiative – with the assistance of the newly founded young talent company. The Gauthier Dance JUNIORS//Theaterhaus Stuttgart inspire enthusiasm for dance in the next generation with numerous performances at schools in the region. What’s more, the JUNIORS also make a great impression with their own stage productions, which are in no way inferior to those of their more experienced colleagues. You can find out more about the young dance company of Theaterhaus Stuttgart here.