Juliette Rahon

Choreographer, dancer, and pedagogue, Juliette Rahon is the artistic director of Juliette Rahon & Co, a company based in Geneva

Since 2020, she has been the choreographic assistant to Kinsun Chan. Juliette has staged several ballets and operas, such Nabucco at the Teatro Real in Madrid and the Opernhaus Zürich, JIT at the Ballet Academy of the Vienna State Opera, Shimmer Simmer at John Cranko School, and Royal Ballet Swedish School and Storm at Arles Youth Ballet Company. She also staged for the Ballet-Akademie der Hochschule for Musik und Teather München, and for Palucca Dresden. Last season she assisted Kinsun Chan during the creation of SCHRäääG for the Partner School Choreographic Project of the Prix de Lausanne 2024.

Juliette also received the second Prize at the choreography competition DanzaFirenze in Florence, Italy, for her piece Between Reality and Insanity and was nominated for the Saxonian Dance Award and the Ursula-Cain-Award with the piece 1001 Leben. In 2016 and 2017 she created the piece Nomade at the Oper Leipzig with two soloists from the Gewandhaus Orchestra. During the 2020/21 season, Juliette began working on a trilogy production, La Dernière Sarabande – ou l’obsolescence programmée. The same year, she collaborated with the Chamber Orchestra Alma Mahler for the creation of Magicae in Paris. In 2022, she choreographed and performed the production of Death and the Maiden for the Quatuor Arteli in Geneva. Recently, she directed the piece Rhythm’N Cello, a multi-disciplinary performance for the ensemble of cellist Ophélie Gaillard.

Juliette has toured with her company across Europe, performing at the Abundance International Dance Festival in Karlstad, Sweden, the Colombes Festival in Paris, the Zukunftsforum Cello Festival in Augsburg, Germany, and the Lystaleypurin Festival in the Faroe Islands.