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Festival Idea
Tanzmehr Bühne together*and*other dance festival is a platform for participatory, artistic dance projects. We exclusively present Artistic Community Dance (ACD)
projects, which is quite unique in Switzerland. The performers on stage are life experts who are as diverse as possible in terms of age, physical or mental health and social background. The
festival also facilitates encounters between groups from all parts of the country. They develop their pieces in co-creative processes with professional dancers who want to re-invent dance and
challenge its hierarchies.
Artistic Community Dance is an independent manifestation of dance which questions normative understandings of the body and dance. It is equally valuable for society and for dance as an art form,
because ACD projects give more and different people access to dance, either as participants or as spectators. The aim of Tanzmehr Bühne is to make ACD practices more visible and to strengthen
them in terms of cultural policy. The festival promotes public discourse about the work with non-professional dancers as well as the networking of all those involved. For this purpose we have
also created the "Manifesto for Artistic Community Dance in Switzerland".
Choreographers and dance mediators practicing in Switzerland are cordially invited to support our aims and to sign the manifesto on the website of Netzwerk Tanzvermittlung Schweiz
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 - arttv.ch and other founding agencies.