The association BewegGrund was founded in 1998 in order to promote inclusive dance. BewegGrund stands for equal rights, self-determination, equal opportunities and integration. The objective is self-evident togetherness of disabled and non-disabled people in cultural projects. Since it was founded, the association has regularly offered courses under the artistic direction of Susanne Schneider, conducts workshops with choreographers from Switzerland and abroad, is active in schools, and organises a biennial festival. Cie BewegGrund has produced a series of professional stage plays which have toured internationally.

FOREST

Duration: 50 Min

Description: A full-length piece, FOREST aims to subtly challenge our individual and societal ideas and assumptions about independence, interdependence and the giving and receiving of care and support, particularly in the context of disability

Extra information: Inspired by the world of plants and ecology, FOREST explores the relationship between different organisms and their environment. FOREST is a meditation on dependence, independence, interdependence and the offer and acceptance of help.
Who do we think needs support and who do we expect to be able to do everything themselves?
What assumptions do we make about others and what assumptions do we make about ourselves?
How do we read the bodies of others based on what we see or don't see?
How do we ask for support and how do we give it to others?

People on road: 7

Freight: none

Goodbye Stracciatella

Duration: ca 30 Min

Description: Stage creation, short format, for young audience

Extra information: "Goodbye Stracciatella" deals with the issue of relinquishment/renunciation with humor and playfulness.
What can we do without?
What can´t we do without?
What do we not want to do without?
About a friendship, that faces questions of relinquishment. Moreover, what remains when two human beings meet?
Does relinquishment always go hand in hand with something unpleasant? Or can we also gain something by doing without something?
Choreography / Concept: Tabea Martin
Dance: Lukas Schwander & Emeric Rabot
Dramaturgy: Moos van den Broek
Costumes: Yasmin Attar
Artistic direction Cie BewegGrund: Susanne Schneider
Production: Association BewegGrund
Light: Barbara Widmer

People on road: 5

Freight: none

Accompanying the performances BewegGrund can offer different formats of workshops:

1 hour taster sessions
½ day or 1 day workshops for first experiences in inclusive dance
1 to 3 days workshops with professional dancers and local people with different abilities
BewegGrund's workshops incorporate elements of Contemporary Dance technique – made accessible for all abilities – Contact Improvisation and we work with choreographic ideas and improvisation.

“In the work of BewegGrund, much is moving – not least the idea of ​​the meanings of dance and disability. There is hardly any better way to express what equality means, and what limits it can break, than the encounter of dancers with and without disabilities.”

Andreas Rieder, director of Swiss Bureau for equality of people with disability