Alexander Schubert
Brad Lubman
Brigitta Muntendorf
Christian Jaksjø
CocoonDance
Ensemble Modern
Friederike Brendler
George Benjamin
Gil Monteagudo Ruiz
Hendrika Entzian
hermann Kretzschmar
hr-Bigband
hr-Sinfonieorchester
IEMA-Ensemble 2023/24
Jeaduk Kim
Jim McNeely
John Hollenbeck
Lawrence Power
Luke Poeppel
Matthias Rieker
Megumi Kasakawa
Michael Hope
NEKO3
Niels Klein
Norbert Ommer
Po-Chien Liu
Polina Korobkova
Rafaële Giovanola
Rebecca Saunders
Ryōji Ikeda
Sofia Gubaidulina
Stefan Asbury
Sunghyun Lee
Sylvain Cambreling
Tania León
Yann Robin
Yannick Mayaud
Yasuhiro Chida
Żaneta Rydzewska
Artist
© Franco MentoRafaële Giovanola
Swiss-born Rafaële Giovanola, originally from Monthey, was born in Baltimore, U.S.A. From the age of six, she was introduced to ballet in her hometown, then continued and completed her ballet training at the Princesse Grâce Academy in Monte-Carlo, under the direction of Marika Besobrasova.
After a long career as a soloist at Teatro Regio Torino, at Ballett Frankfurt, under the direction of William Forsythe, where she remained for eight seasons, and at Pavel Mikuláštik's Choreographisches Theater in Freiburg im Breisgau and in Bonn, in 2000 she founded the CocoonDance company with dramaturge Rainald Endraß. Her projects have won her several prizes and awards, including the Prix Culturel Valaisan, and she tours on five continents. After a three-year residency at the Théâtre du Crochetan, she became associate artist at the Crochetan in 2020.
She is responsible for dance programming at Theater im Ballsaal Bonn, and has founded a Junior Company in Bonn and Monthey.