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Program Saturday 28.10.2023
Moderation: Denyse Gundlich, wheelchair user
Denyse is a movement person with a birth disability who has struggled to swim, kayak and dance, often as the only disabled person among non-disabled people. She is a regular attendee of Danceability workshops from the Tanzflug association and is committed to equal rights for people with disabilities, especially in the cultural sphere.
Contemporary Dance & Dance Theater /Tanztheater & Dance Improvisation/Instant Composition
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.
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.
Improvisation means acting out of the moment and spontaneously. As in music or theater, improvisation in dance can be used in the creation process or practiced as its own stage form. There are different tasks that serve as a framework and are practiced just as much as fixed choreographies.
Le déménagement Cie Kane - Les Itinérants
Seven passionate dancers from La Chaux-de-Fonds
Choreography: Grochain Maky
Dance: Maïté Humair, Tania Frassanito, Jade Girardin, Anne Garufo, Delphine Haldimann, Aline Schoch Prince, Mélanie Mattart, Emma Cazes
In one sentence
A choreography that deals with the stories of relocations and their consequences.
Who dances ?
The participants, aged between 30 and 50, share a passion for dance, which they pursue together once a week.
www.ciekane.ch
What`s it about ?
The choreography arose from the realization, that everyone has experienced at least one move to a new home in their life. Although this event seems banal on the surface, it varies always in form, motivation, in its perception and consequences. Each woman tells her personal story of moving house through dance and thus opens herself to the audience.
Contemporary Dance & Dance Improvisation/Instant Composition
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.
Improvisation means acting out of the moment and spontaneously. As in music or theater, improvisation in dance can be used in the creation process or practiced as its own stage form. There are different tasks that serve as a framework and are practiced just as much as fixed choreographies.
Zämmeheebe Rebecca Weingartner & Team
An intergenerational group from Basel
Choreography: Rebecca Weingartner
Dance & Contributors: Susanne Hügelin, Bryan Peter, Herbert Eggs, Sibylle Wunderle, Peter Waldvogel, Inge Wolter, Jörg Eysel, Livia Immos, Jenny Seth, Anna
Stenik, Deborah Dietz, Jasmin Vock, Sanja Lukanović
Music: Vivaldi, Apollo’s Fire, Jeanette Sorrel, Samuel Rohrer
Lighting Design: Minna Heikkilä
In one sentence
The field of tension between the individual and the community is explored in a humorous and surprising way.
Who dances ?
12 dance enthusiasts between the ages of 16 and 66 form a group. Some of them bring dance skills with them, while others have none. They all came together specifically for this mediation project, initiated by Theater ROXY Birsfelden.
What`s it about ?
The cross-generational dance piece explores the field of tension between individual and community. Most of the dancers are on stage for the first time, they are co-creators of the dance piece. This is based on structured improvisation, which means that not a single step is predetermined. In this way, the piece challenges the community spirit and creative individual responsibility of the participants.
Funding/Co-Production: Theater Roxy Birsfelden
Contemporary Dance & Dance Theater /Tanztheater
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.
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.
UNTERWEGS Junges Tanztheater Akar & Tanzplatz Vorbern
Young people from Bern who are looking for their path
Choreography: Britta Gärtner & Regula Mahler
Dance: Yma Abplanalp, Nora Gianna Bieri, Lia Fischer, Lea Glaus, Lilia Maria Herrlich, Ibado Ismaël, Caroline Mäder, Lina Stäheli und Nyla Steinhart
Sound Design: Pascal Schärli
Lighting Design: Giulio Gasparoli
Costume Design: Salome Egger
In one sentence
A joint work of music, sound and dance that shows young people searching for their very own path.
Who dances ?
Nine young people between the ages of 14 and 17 have come together for the “Unterwegs” project. In total, they rehearsed on 14 days for 3 hours each, spread over several months. The group consists of young people with and without dance experience.
www.akardance.ch/buehnenprojekte/junges-tanztheater/ | www.vorbern.ch
What`s it about ?
Particularly young people are challenged to orientate themselves in a world of endless possibilities, having to decide on forward-looking paths. What feelings do the young people experience when they embark on their journey? What are their goals? And who or what do they take with them on the different routes? The young dancers were deeply involved as a choreography was developed, which searches for answers to these questions. The music is based on the interplay of the various movement contents. The result is a jointly developed, complete work of music, sound and dance.
Funding/Co-Production: TANZPLATZ VORBERN
Dance Improvisation/Instant Composition & Movement Theater
Improvisation means acting out of the moment and spontaneously. As in music or theater, improvisation in dance can be used in the creation process or practiced as its own stage form. There are different tasks that serve as a framework and are practiced just as much as fixed choreographies.
Movement theater is a creative play with the body that draws on elements from theater, dance, music, but also acrobatics, clown work and other forms of expression. In this way, it differs from theater, which traditionally relies heavily on text and voice.
Ma, ma, martedi Young Lab
Group from Ticino with young people from all over Switzerland, keen to experiment
Choreography: Lea Lechler, Daniele Bianco & Valentina Bianda with the dancers
Dance: Lavinia Pedrini, Lorena Cipriano, Maria Muscionico, Noemi Zürcher, Arianna De Angelis, Elmira Oberholzer, Laura Ponti, Robert Barbaric, Lia Franchini, Joséphine Decking
Music: I Camillas, Stereo Total, F.Dreyssig/M.Hey/S.Cawa/Dirty Doering, KLASHVINYL
Lighting Design: Daniele Bianco
In one sentence
A comic-dramatic examination of young people's challenges after the pandemic.
Who dances ?
The «Young Lab» is a dance and theater research studio in Meride (TI) with people aged 19 to 26. The dancers study and work in a wide variety of fields. Some have been part of the Young Lab for
years, others are new. The group meets once a month for a weekend with more intensive rehearsal periods.
www.grandegiro.net
What`s it about ?
What have the past few years left in us? The dancers search for an expression that does justice to the feelings and aftermaths of the pandemic and restores their own ability to act. The group works with movements and gestures as well as with texts from Surrealism and Dadaism. They have their fingers on the pulse of time and are looking for a new common denominator.
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.