Michal Heriban

Michal Heriban is a Slovak choreographer, performer, and visual artist based primarily in Bratislava, Munich, and Prague. He is a co-founder of the theater company Jedným dychom and has been participated in over 40 full-length productions since 2012. For the past 10 years, he has closely collaborated with German choreographer and visual artist Micha Purucker. His focus includes physical theater, contemporary dance techniques, improvisation, voice in movement theater, prop work, and visual art. In the Czech Republic, he has been nominated for the Thalia Awards in 2020, 2022, and 2023 and has collaborated with tinstitutions and companies such as he National Theater in Prague, the National Theater in Brno, 420PEOPLE, BURKIKOM, Lenka Vagnerova & Company, Losers Cirque Company, Petra Fornayová, Nude Theater, DPM Theater, Move Ostrava, Anna Konjetzky, Ceren Oran, Renana Raz, Rotem Tashach, Elledanse Theater, and Radoslav Piovarči. He has also taught workshops in Seoul, Algeria, Israel, Germany, and at dance conservatories in Prague, Ostrava, HAMU (The Music and Dance Faculty of the Academy of Performing arts), as well as at various dance festivals.