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PEOPLE
Responsibles
Supporting Board 2023
stands behind the Tanzmehr vision and provides knowhow and networking.
Alessia della Casa, dancer, choreographer, director Ticino Danza
“It is essential for me that the deep artistic journey and research of artists and dance makers can be translated into an accessible message, into a vessel that gathers a community, and that it is able to touch and transform the environment where it lives and thrives.”
Pierre-Alain Formica, président de dansehabile
"The association dansehabile supports the work of the Tanzmehr festival, we were happy to participate in the 2021 session. This festival is also a place of interregional understanding between our language communities. The Compagnie dansehabile, which holds the label of inclusive dance, was able to perform in inclusion at this festival."
Susanne Schneider, Künstlerische Leiterin Beweggrund
"People dance - big and small, older and younger, with and without disabilities.
The dancing people want to share their work - with each other and with an audience.
This requires stages, places, time and people who make it possible.
Tanzmehr is such a place - where colourful diversity is danced."
Isabella Spirig - Initiator and founder of IntegrART - a festival dedicated to the inclusion of performing artists. Former artistic director of Steps.
"Contemporary dance is an art form that reaches people directly. An art form that is associative and not always linearly logical. In Switzerland, contemporary dance does not yet have a long tradition and that is why it inspires a lot of people, but it also confuses just as many. Community dance is a wonderful bridge and creates understanding and an incredible joy of dance through one's own experience and participation, guided by professionals! Tanzmehr's goal is to inspire more people to dance more and to actively promote diversity - a goal that is very worthy of support. I wish the Tanzmehr festival much success!"
Moderators
Every evening, a moderator leads through the program and creates a bridge between the stage, the audience and their unique perception.
Sounding Board 2023
members were selected, to diversify our perspectives. We are grateful for their feedbacks, tipps and warnings.
Pascale Altenburger, dance maker and antiracism activist, BE
Joëlle Dumas, choreographer and dance mediator, FR
Denise Gundlich, passionate dancer born with a handicap, ZH
Simon Wenger, choreographer, journalist, editor, BS
Chris Stettler, director of dance and movement therapy IAC, ZH
Programming Group 2023
Panel of experts: Festival directors (Tina Mantel & Johanna-Maria Raimund, together one voice) Simon Wenger (dancer/choreographer, Basel), Anna Chiedza Spörri (dancer/choreographer, Bern/London) Emanuel Rosenberg (Danceability Tessin)
Panel of audience representatives: Nina Baumann, Michi Germann, Denyse Gundlich, Catherine Vitte
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.