Christelle Liona Dreyer is a Cape Town–based artist who combines choreography, performance and visual design across a 25‑year professional practice. She creates work that is formally rigorous and emotionally immediate, moving between stage and public performance while also designing identities and visual materials for performing arts projects.
Trained in visual communication design at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology, Christelle has built a parallel career as a freelance visual communications designer, producing corporate identities, posters, books, and campaign designs for dance companies and festivals. Her design work informs her choreographic approach, bringing a strong visual logic to movement, staging and dramaturgy, through the lens of inclusive and accessible design.
As a performer she has performed for established theatre and dance makers, appearing in productions including Marat/Sade at the Baxter Theatre and No Function All Anguage at festivals nationally and abroad. Recent performance and creation credits include choreographing Balloons (de Stilte / ASSITEJ South Africa, 2024) and performing in the duet Sister I Can Feel It In My Bones (Kaaos Company / X Dance Festival, 2025).
Christelle’s professional development includes participation in international programmes such as the Dancing Disability Lab at UCLA (2019) and a summer intensive with Axis Dance Company (2014). She brings those experiences into locally grounded projects that explore form, presence and collaboration across diverse ensembles and contexts.
She co‑founded TractusArt to develop projects that centre the work and leadership of artists with disabilities and to create opportunities for collaboration, mentoring and public presentation. In recognition of her contribution to the arts she received the Western Cape Government Cultural Affairs Award in 2017.
Currently completing a master’s degree in Design at Cape Peninsula University of Technology, Christelle continues to integrate movement and visual communication in projects that prioritise clarity, emotional impact and inclusive participation. She works across choreography, performance direction and visual communication while freelancing as a designer for arts organisations and the inclusive dance community.