Swiss Dance Days: SOLIDARITY!

SOLIDARITY!
Diversity is the word of the hour and seems to be a guarantee for a solidary and pluralistic society. But what does it actually feel like to be at home here and there, to have multiple affiliations? What creates belonging beyond national identity? In Rebecca Weingartner's latest piece "SOLIDARITY!", two dancers and a musician come together. Their biographies are as complex as they are different, but all three have experienced the feeling of not belonging. On stage, they challenge each other to be courageous and overcome their own boundaries. The musician dances and the dancers make music and sing. For this to succeed, they need active support - from each other, but also from the audience. Together they form a choir of moving bodies, a sounding, crashing, singing ensemble that rebels and makes itself heard for hidden stories. In this way, "SOLIDARITY!" attempts to create a temporary community in the theatre space in which all people - despite all their differences - feel that they belong.

REBECCA WEINGARTNER
Rebecca Weingartner studied contemporary dance at the Tanztheaterschule Zürich and at ArtEZ, University of the Arts Arnhem in the Netherlands, as well as physical theatre at AHK, University of the Arts Amsterdam. The awareness of structural disadvantages in the context of her previous works as well as Rebecca Weingartner's own experiences as a woman*, person of colour and victim of classism form the core and important impetus of her current artistic exploration. in 2021, she was awarded the Culture Prize for Dance of the Canton of Baselland. After "EQUALITY!", the successful dance piece on gender equality, which she developed together with Benjamin Lindh Medin, Rebecca Weingartner continues her work with "SOLIDARITY!" for a young audience.

Choreography & Performance: Rebecca Weingartner
Performance & Co-creation: Raul Martinez, Nello Novella
Music & Composition: Nello Novella
Production & Diffusion: Pascal Moor
Co-production: ROXY Birsfelden
Residencies: Dampfzentrale Bern, Tanzhaus Zürich
Support: Fachausschuss Tanz und Theater BS/BL, Stanley Thomas Johnson Stiftung, Stiftung Edith Maryon, Jacqueline Spengler Stiftung, Fondation Nestlé pour l'Art, Schweizerische Interpretenstiftung (SIS), Werner Hasenböhler Stiftung

Duration: 60 minutes
Language: German
Regular tickets: CHF 35 / 25 / 15
Kulturlegi, AHV, IV: CHF 10