Dance

What do we support?

  • Independent professional Swiss and British dance companies with cross-regional reach
  • Projects with a convincing educational effect

Selected projects

Forever, Tabea Martin

What do kids think about life and death, dying and immortality? What do they imagine about life after death? Is it a taboo to talk to them about it? The ideas and fantasies of children from 8 to 12 years old are interpreted through interviews and workshops with five professional dancers.

The Ecstatic, Jeremy Nedd

For his dance piece The Ecstatic, the Basel-based choreographer Jeremy Nedd worked with six Pantsula dancers, taking inspiration from the rhythmic, energetic and expressive physical language of the South African dance form Pantsula.

Chro no lo gi cal, Art Mouvements

The dance project Chron o lo gi cal with dancers Ruth Childs, Yasmine Hugonnet and Audrey Gaison Doncel centres on perceptions of time, gesture and language as shared elements creating interpersonal connection.

Runway

The dance duo Delgado Fuchs regularly collaborates with artists from other fields. For their piece Runway they commissioned the hair artist Charlie Le Mindu and the musician Clive Jenkins to develop an investigation of hair as fetish, body ornament and ritual element.

BewegGrund

The BewegGrund association promotes inclusive dance, that is, people with and without disabilities dancing together. Since its foundation in 1998, the association has run regular courses and workshops, worked in schools and organised a festival every two years. The BewegGrund company prepares professional stage plays and performs them on international tours.