Performing Arts - Latest news - 2023

Cindy Van Acker

Swiss Grand Prix for Performing Arts/Hans Reinhart Ring 2023 goes to Cindy Van Acker

Choreographer Cindy Van Acker from Geneva has won the Swiss Grand Prix for Performing Arts/Hans-Reinhart-Ring 2023. Van Acker is an international success on the established theatre scene and on the independent dance scene with her company Cie Greffe.
Tellspiele Altdorf

Nine more Swiss performing arts awards for 2023

The other Swiss performing arts awards for 2023 go to Rébecca Balestra, Bruno Cathomas, Ntando Cele, Tiziana Conte, Barbara Giongo and Nataly Sugnaux Hernandez, Sandro Lunin, Circus Monti, Jeremy Nedd and theatre group Tellspiele Altdorf.
Marc Oosterhoff

Dance production 2022, theatre production 2022 & June Johnson Newcomer Prize

Dance production “Blast!” by Ruth Childs and theatre production “EWS – Der einzige Politthriller der Schweiz” by Theater Neumarkt won the dance production and theatre production awards, respectively. Marc Oosterhoff/Cie Moost won the June Johnson Newcomer Prize.
LAC Arte e Cultura Lugano

Swiss Performing Arts Awards Ceremony on 6 October 2023 at LAC cultural centre, Lugano

The Swiss Performing Arts Awards Ceremony will be held on 6 October 2023 as part of the FIT –International Festival of Theatre, with Alain Berset, President of the Swiss Confederation in attendance, at LAC cultural centre, Lugano. The event will be streamed live on the Swiss Culture Awards website.
Ruth Childs Blast

Reminder: Entries for Swiss Performing Arts Awards 2024

The next round of entries for the “June Johnson Newcomer Prize 2024”, for dance production 2023 and for performing arts heritage 2024 can be still submitted to the platform for supporting subsidies (FPF) of the FOC until 24 October 2023.
Ticino Flashmob

Spring 2024 promotions

The Federal Office of Culture works closely with the following partners to promote the prizes: the Swiss Association for Theatre Studies, the Swiss Artists’ Fair, Tanzfest and the Swiss Theatre Days.

Winners of the 2022 Swiss Performing Arts Awards will be appearing at the Swiss Artists' Fair in Thun from 19 to 22 April

Mike Müller will open the Swiss Artists' Fair on 19 April with his inheritance comedy “Erbsache". Frida León Beraud will also be presenting her work in Thun. Both received a Swiss Performing Arts Award last autumn.

Award winners at the Tanzfest in various locations from 10 to 14 May

Winners in the dance category of the Swiss Performing Arts Awards will be showing their work all over Switzerland at Tanzfest. Dance on tour will feature Marco Berrettini, Yasmine Hugonnet, Susanne Schneider / BewegGrund, Paola Gianoli and Nicole Seiler, who won an award in 2021.

Swiss Performing Arts Award winners at the 10th edition of the Swiss Theatre Encounter in Fribourg from 31 May to 4 June

The 10th edition of the Swiss Theatre Encounter will feature Barbara Frey, winner of the Swiss Grand Award for the Performing Arts / Hans Reinhart Ring 2022, along with Maya Bösch, Ticino is Burning, Mathieu Bertholet and Daniel Hellmann.

MIMOS – Swiss Performing Arts yearbook 2022

The MIMOS yearbook on the winner of the Swiss Grand Award for the Performing Arts / Hans Reinhart Ring 2022, Barbara Frey, is being published to coincide with the 10th edition of the Theatre Encounter.
Teatro Fronte LAC 2015

Save the date: Presentation of the Swiss Performing Arts Awards 2023

The next Swiss Performing Arts Awards will be presented on 6 October 2023 at the LAC as part of the FIT Festival Internazionale del Teatro in Lugano. The winners will be announced by the Federal Office of Culture on 31 August.

Performing arts heritage – five projects selected in 2023

From 15 entries submitted in the autumn of 2022, five projects have been selected to receive support: “Premiers théâtres suisses”, “Les souffleurs de temps”, Oskar Eberle (1902-56), “Choreographers at Work!” and the festival “cultural heritage, dance!”.
June Johnson Newcomer Prize 2022, InQdrt

Next calls for submissions for the Swiss Performing Arts Awards

The next entries for the June Johnson Newcomer Prize, Dance Production 2023 and Performing Arts Heritage can be submitted between 26 September and 24 October 2023 via the FOC’s support platform.

Last modification 13.03.2024

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