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Originally from Zurich, Switzerland, Yvonne Meier has been choreographing and performing her work since 1980. She has received Bessie’s Awards for her work, which span anywhere from solos to large-scale post-modern spectacles. Over the years, Meier has developed a high-risk movement vocabulary that takes the audience through transformation by exhaustion. 

Meier, known for her physical wit and dark humor, creates Strega Nona—a work about lovers brought together by a matchmaker called Strega Nona. The dance that follows, she writes, “is brutal…erotic, and tender.” Dancers Osmani Tellez and Lisa Kusanagi perform scores of Meier and Ishmael Houston-Jones’ love duet Tell Me (1987), which they danced in New York in the ’90s.