Walter Heun

Walter Heun

Born in 1962, is living and working in Munich. Between 1985 and 1989 Walter Heun was Director of Tanztage Munchen, Dance Energy, and Tanztendenz Munchen. In 1990 he initiated and centrally coordinated the nation wide festival BRDance, is co-founder and presenter of Tanzplattform Deutschland (Dance Platform Germany) since 1994, and he founded and still is Director of Tanzwerkstatt Europa in Munich. He organized the Swiss Contemporary Dance platform in 2000.
He has been dedicated to the performing arts since 1987 as initiator, member and artistic director of several international institutions and networks of contemporary dance such as European Network for the Research of Contemporary Dance Production and the Dance Network Europe (1994-2000). In 1990 he founded his own production firm called Joint Adventures. In 1991 he founded Nationales Performance Netz (NPN), he conceived and directed Luzerntanz – choreographic centre at the Luzernertheater, Lucerne (CH).