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PEOPLE


Responsibles

 

Tina Mantel

 

Artistic Direction

choreographer, dancer, dance mediator, dance scientist.

 

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Johanna-Maria Raimund

 

production management

freelance dramaturg

 

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Supporting Board

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.” 

www.ticinoindanza.com


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."

www.dansehabile.ch


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."

www.beweggrund.ch


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 with physical or sensory disabilities leads through the program and creates a bridge between the stage, the audience and their unique perception.

 

Wednesday 25 October - Corina Arbenz, Deaf

Corina is a deaf artist researching holistic language on stage with a tireless commitment to inclusion and diversity. She has been dancing in diverse projects with inclusive groups for three years. She is on the Tanzflug team and assists with DanceAbility at Tanzhaus.

 

Thursday October 26 - Sophia Rodriguez, limited vision

Sophia has a technical-legal profession. She has been dancing in Danceability workshops for a few years. She also experiments with different forms of physical expression in dance and theater.

 

Friday October 27 - 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).

 

Saturday October 28 - 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.


Sounding Board

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

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.