Tyra Wigg is a choreographer, dancer, and performance artist whose work explores desires and tensions of the sensing body within its cultural, political, and material surroundings. Drawing on a background in massage therapy and care work, many of their performances intersect artistic and physiotherapeutic practices to alter embodied perceptions and shift the modes of spectatorship.

Wigg’s performances have been presented at venues and festivals such as Kaserne Basel, MDT Stockholm, Les Urbaines, far° Nyon, Joint Adventures Munich, Schinkel Pavillon Berlin, ROXY Birsfelden, Kunsthaus Baselland, Kunsthalle Basel, Museum Tinguely, Weld Stockholm, and Shedhalle Zürich.

As a performer and collaborator, Wigg has worked with Gisèle Vienne, Heiner Goebbels, Shu Lea Cheang, Ernestyna Orlowska, Marina Abramović, Inga Gerner Nielsen, Alexandra Pirici, among others.In 2020 Wigg relocated their homebase from Stockholm, Sweden to Basel, Switzerland. In 2023, they completed an MA in Expanded Theatre at Bern University of the Arts (HKB).
 


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2025 Participant in Transmission Impossible at Festival D’Avignon

2023-24 “LAB-artist” in residence at Kaserne Basel

2021-24 Motherboard member of Blasphemic Reading Soirées- a nomadic platform for queerfeminist reading and discussion culture.

2022 Part of the discursive reflection groups for emerging artists at AUA LAB at Auawirleben, Bern, and Watch&Talk at Theaterfestival Basel.

2021 Receiver of the DanceWeb Scholarship at Impulstanz in Vienna with mentorship from Anne Juren and Frédéric Gies.

2019-20 Artist in residence at SITE in Stockholm.






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