Joy Alpuerto Ritter

Joy Alpuerto Ritter graduated at the Palucca School in Dresden with a dance diploma. She started working as a freelance contemporary dancer in and around Berlin, with choreographers like Christoph Winkler, Heike Hennig, Yui Kawaguchi and Wangramirez. During this time she expanded her repertory in urban dance styles and was active in this community in europe. In 2011 she joined Cirque du Soleil as a dancer and aerial artist for the Michael Jackson Immortal World Tour. Since 2013 she has been touring as a dancer of the Akram Khan Company and has been nominated as outstanding female dancer (modern), for the Performance "Until the Lions", by the National Dance Awards UK.  Since 2016 she has found international response as a choreographer & creates works for film and own dance theatre pieces. Her signature is finding an interesting fusion of movement vocabulary that come from different cultural backgrounds. Following her internationally acclaimed solo "BABAE" (selected for Aerowaves 2020) & award winning piece "OZ - the magic in us", Joy’s body of work develops as she leads on the direction of collaborative cross-pollinated performances with an array of talented artists and creatives like Akram Khan, Chen Shi-Zheng, Viviana Durante, Mavin Khoo, Gideon Berger, Floria Sigismundi and the Friedrichstadtpalast in Berlin.