Charlotte’s Journey with Jill Crovisier

Jill Crovisier graduated in Ballet and Contemporary dance at the Conservatory of music in Esch/Alzette (LU) before joining by selection the China EU Art school in Beijing organized by the British Council of Arts in 2005. She was a member of the Weis dance people company at the age of 18 and continued to study dance later on in France (where she also obtains a dance teacher degree), NYC, Israel and Indonesia.

As a dancer, Jill worked among others for, Anu Sistonen (FIN), Hannah Ma (DE), Oz Mulay (ISL), Pia Vinson (USA), Elisabeth Schilling (DE) and Kendra J.Horsburgh (UK). Choreography: Jill created R!CE, We are We, ZEMENT, Zement the solo, The Hidden Garden, SIEBEN, BOLERO, FRICTION and the children’s piece MATKA. Since 2013 Jill works also in the production of short dance films and since 2015 she is involved in dance therapy projects. She is the artistic director of the JC movement production, based in Luxembourg.

In 2017 Jill got selected with Zement, the solo at Lucky Trimmer, Gdanski solo dance competition, at the Hannover Choreographic Competition, won the Frankfurt edition prize of Solocoreografico competition and won the CICC Taiwan production award at the Copenhagen International Choreography Competition. In 2018 she premiered SIEBEN, her first major work presented at le Grand Théâtre de La Ville de Luxembourg. She was the FOCUNA bourse recipient for the UferStudios artist summer residency 2018 in Berlin and retransmitted The Hidden Garden on a male dancer. In 2018 she is as a guest choreographer for B.Dance company in Taiwan in the work NO MANS’ LAND and joins a residency at the FMK Black Box in Vientiane, Laos. She choreographed SI for a master degree student exam at Taipei National University of the Arts and retransmits a short version of The Hidden Garden on a 4th year Graduate degree student of SEAD Austria.

In January 2019, Jill received a honorary award from the city of Rumelange (LU), for her exceptional achievements as a dancer and choreographer. Her recent short dance film D A N S is part of the Loop exhibition in Rotondes, Luxembourg next to renowned video artists. In March 2019 she participated in the 23.Internationales Solo Tanz Theater Festival Stuttgart with the short male version of The Hidden Garden. The Hidden Garden, selected by the Theatre Federation, will be represented at the Festival Avignon OFF. Her short film NILYNDA got selected to numerous Film festivals and won the PEARLS award at POOL Internationale TanzFilmPLattform Berlin. In June 2019, Jill received the Lëtzebuerger Danzpräis / Luxembourgish Dance Award.

Jill was recently invited to create a choreography (Tanzabend) for the Folkwang Universität der Künste, Institut für Zeitgenössischen Tanz in Essen. Currently Jill dances for Xie Xin Dance Theatre + Laboration Art Company (CHN/FR) and tours her works Zement the solo, SIEBEN, The Hidden Garden and BOLERO. Upcoming productions are Prélude à l’Aprés-Midi d’un Faune (commission) JINJEON and SAHASA (young audience).