Adolphe
Binder Artistic direction, curation & choreography

Adolphe Binder will be Artistic Director and Curator for Ballett Basel at Theater Basel from August 2023. She initiates and develops artistic productions that celebrate the power of dance art and leads the ensemble and team. Binder stands for a programme that explores and stages dance in all its forms and supports and presents first-class international artists. Her focus is on the artistic conception and development of multidisciplinary works.
In earlier years, she worked as artistic director of the Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch, artistic director and co-director at the Gothenburg State Opera, founder of the production agency B+P Berlin, artistic director of the Komische Oper Berlin dance theatre and chief dramaturge of the ballet at the Deutsche Oper Berlin. She has also worked as a curator and cultural manager for international dance festivals and the Expo 2000 world exhibition in Hanover as well as for Friedrich Kulturzeitschriftenverlag. Binder was a resident at the Goethe Institute Vila Sul in Brazil, realised her own pieces, installations, happenings, published various publications on gender and body identity, and was involved on a voluntary basis in advisory boards at universities (Folkwang University Essen, Palucca University Dresden) and cultural policy committees. She sat on the jury of international choreography competitions and was co-managing director of the current umbrella organisation Tanz Deutschland. Over the past decades, Binder has realised the production of more than 100 works, including acclaimed cross-art form and trend-setting collaborations. Binder was born in Romania (Transylvania) in 1969 and emigrated with her family to West Germany in 1978. She studied literature, philosophy, history and political science (M.A.) at the University of Hanover and completed various programmes in creative leadership. Her theatre career began in 1994 at the Schauspielhaus of the Niedersächsische Staatstheater in Hanover.