Christian Guerematchi

Christian Guerematchi was born in Maribor, Slovenia – former Yugoslavia. He has Eastern European and Central African Roots. After graduating from the Ballet Conservatory, he worked with the National Ballet in Maribor, Ballet Kiel (Germany) and Compagnie Thor in Brussels (Belgium). In 2006, he moved to the Netherlands where he now lives, working with choreographers like Nicole Beutler, Emio Greco and Pieter C. Scholten. He followed a propaedeutic year at the University of Amsterdam in Theatre Studies. In 2012 he was nominated for De Zwaan Best Dance Performance for his role in ROCCO by Emio Greco and Pieter C. Scholten. His first original production was White Noise (2019) in collaboration with Otion, followed by his solo performance N.A.M. – Non-Aligned Movement (2000), the first part of the broader research project Epistemologies of the Body, focused on the narratives of the black body. His latest performance is Hissy Fit – An Echo Between Bodies (2022).