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 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.

Kunst im Bau is a long-term project that started in spring 2023. The starting point was the desire for new stages, new audiences and new types of collaboration. Together with selected musicians, Bernese dancer Karin Minger performs at building sites around Bern, each time specifically relating to the particular situation of the construction project.

“There and Here” is a dance and music project created with adult refugees and asylum seekers by renowned London choreographer L. Silvestrini, in collaboration with the Islington Centre for Refugees and Migrants and The Place Theatre, home of the London Contemporary Dance School. The project brings together 20 to 25 refugee participants to creatively process their stories and talents.

The platform enables dance professionals and well-trained dancers to engage with the cultural heritage of dance in Switzerland. Historical dance works from the 20th and early 21st centuries are selected, experienced, shown in the present and considered for the future. Professional dancers work with amateur groups to create new work based on the heritage of past choreographies and present the results at an annual festival.

Faking It is a site-specific dance production that was rehearsed and performed in Bern’s Dählhölzli Forest. The main themes of the production are the emergence of rituals and communities, as well as the interdependence of “nature” and “artifice”.