Winterthur Culture Prize for Ana Tajouiti Stahel
Ana Tajouiti Stahel has been awarded the 2013 Cultural Prize of the City of Winterthur, endowed with CHF 10,000. Together with Sanna Kurtenbach, the dancer founded her own school in 1997, the "aha! Studio for Dance and Movement" in 1997 and the up-and-coming company "cie.aha!plus" in 2009.
Ana Tajouiti Stahel has been committed to the development of dance in Winterthur for many years, the city writes in a press release, both as an organizer at the Theater am Gleis and "tanzinwinterthur" (president 2006-2011) and at a political level.
After training as a dancer, Ana Tajouiti Stahel danced with the "Zürich Tanz Theater" and the "Movers", among others, before founding her own company in 1989 - the "Rakassa Tanztheater" (from 2000 "aha! tanzt"). Since her training, Ana Tajouiti Stahel has worked as a teacher of contemporary dance, modern dance, dance improvisation, children's dance and jazz dance.
