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Program Friday 27.10.2023
Moderation: Giuliano Carnovali, wheelchair user
Giuliano has been paraplegic since a serious traffic accident in 2019. However, his stroke of fate does not prevent him from continuing to roll through life positively and to realize his dreams. Disability: incomplete paraplegia (right elbow stiffened).
Dance Theater /Tanztheater
Dance Theater became an independent genre of dance in the 1970s, especially through Pina Bausch, with its origins in German Ausdruckstanz. The term describes a combination of dance and theatrical means such as language, realistic stage sets and the inclusion of the dancers' biographies.
FADE in BLOSSOM Collectif *PERSONA GRATA*
Young adults from Romont FR
Choreography: Joëlle Dumas
Dance: Aurore Dumas, Eva Guillaume, Henri Kaspar, Manon Trümpler, Rachel-Rose Baechler
Live-Music: Valentin Dumas (guitar)
In one sentence
Five individuals embark on a journey to themselves.
Who dances ?
Young adults with different dance experiences and different professions. They all share life in a working world that constantly confronts them with demands and leaves little room for their individuality.
What`s it about ?
Participation in this piece offers the dancers the opportunity to distance themselves from their everyday work and to discover themselves. Dance is a safe and free space for all of them to express their own personality in movement qualities and forms. The choreography lives from the uniqueness of the participants.
Contemporary Dance
The collective term Contemporary Dance is generally understood to mean the choreographic stage dance art of the present. Recently developed dance techniques are integrated and current trends from other art forms are incorporated. Dance here can be very abstract. It is used as a language that speaks only about the body in motion.
Mille Sens BewegGrund Young
Young people with and without disabilities from Bern
Choreography: Vanessa Cook
Dance: Rouven Aeschlimann, Kim Bigler, Linda Burren, Elin Gutscher, Clara Koechlin, Johanna Suska
Music: Rachel Portman
Artistic Director: Susanne Schneider
In one sentence
Five young people use the senses taste, smell, touch and sound and to develop their dance.
Who dances?
Young people between the ages of 12 and 26, with and without disabilities. The group is part of the «BewegGrund performance group», in which professionally and non-professionally trained people
dance and perform under the direction of dance professionals.
www.beweggrund.org
What`s it about ?
The piece explores how delicious food, delicate scents, surprising sounds and gentle touches set people in motion. Each exploration leads the dancers to a feeling or sensation that is expressed on stage as a playful dance. A piece full of rich sensory experiences.
Funding/Co-Production: Stadt & Kanton Bern, Burgergemeinde Bern, Stiftung Sostenuto, Ruth & Arthur Scherbarth Stiftung
Dance Theater /Tanztheater
Dance Theater became an independent genre of dance in the 1970s, especially through Pina Bausch, with its origins in German Ausdruckstanz. The term describes a combination of dance and theatrical means such as language, realistic stage sets and the inclusion of the dancers' biographies.
Meer nah Cia vis à vie
Dancers in their prime from Basel
Choreography: Pilar Buira Ferre
Dance: Ines Berlanda, Susanne Schaub, Oliver Föhring, Pilar Buira Ferre
Music: Max Richter, arranged by Hannes Kumke
Lighting Design: Walter Schneider
Costumes: Pilar Buira Ferre
Coordination and substitute dancer: Beate Fritz-Rudorf
In one sentence
A group embarks on a journey across the water, hoping to find a better future.
Who dances ?
The dance theater company «vis à vie» was founded five years ago by choreographer and dancer Pilar Buira Ferre. The dancers are 50 years or older and most of them discovered dance theater for themselves only after important areas of life such as work, family and children no longer took up all of their time.
What`s it about ?
The piece is about people in search of a safe place. A place where they are welcome and feel understood. Getting there is a long journey across water that exhausts people to death. But whatever happens on this journey: there is no going back, only hope for a better future.
Funding/Co-Production: Foundation Rosenhof
Dance Theater /Tanztheater
Dance Theater became an independent genre of dance in the 1970s, especially through Pina Bausch, with its origins in German Ausdruckstanz. The term describes a combination of dance and theatrical means such as language, realistic stage sets and the inclusion of the dancers' biographies.
Zopf ab Tanztheater Dritter Frühling
People over 65 who enjoy moving, from Zurich
Choreography: Angelika Ächter & Katrin Oettli, in collaboration with all the dancers
Dance: Hanna Brunner, Alojz J. Cerar, Agatha Gachnang, Katharina Haas, Madeleine Hirsch Jemma, Heidemarie Hirschauer, Monika Imfeld, Verena Kromer, Oda Ursula Müller-Ruff, Hannah Munz, Monika Schär-Walder, Luce-Hélène Tardent, Monika Waldmeier, Christina Widmer
Live-Music: Ralf Buron
Video: Katrin Oettli
Lighting Design: Jennifer von Känel
Costumes: Doris Berger
Assistant costume, stage & make-up: Sona Nydegger
Choreography assistant: Aline Gia Perino
In one sentence
A new interpretation of the classic "Le Sacre du Printemps" with live music - irritating and touching.
Who dances ?
The group Tanztheater Dritter Frühling is the oldest dance theater with people over 65 in Switzerland. 13 female dancers and one male dancer between the ages of 66 and 84 came together for this piece. Some of them have been part of the dance theater group for many years, while others are on stage for the first time. They all share the joy of dancing.
What`s it about ?
How can we stand together and what drives us apart? Did something really go terribly wrong after the Big Bang and is there already a ghost marching beside me? Are we about to lose control? The piece transforms personal and political struggles into rituals, which are presented as timely rhythmic dances. The group is carried by a common pulse and the desire for a utopia.
We are grateful:
Bundesamt für Kultur BAK | Ernst Göhner Stiftung | Stadt Zürich Kultur | Stiftung Corymbo | Stanley
Thomas Johnson Stiftung | Stiftung Anne-Marie Schindler | Cassinelli-Vogel-Stiftung | Elisabeth Weber Stiftung | Migros Kulturprozent | Fondation Oertli Stiftung and other founding agencies.