Performing Arts - Latest news - 2021

01 MartinZimmermann © BAK  Charlotte Krieger

Swiss Grand Award for the Performing Arts / Hans Reinhart Ring 2021 goes to Martin Zimmermann

This year’s Swiss Grand Award for the Performing Arts / Hans Reinhart Ring goes to Martin Zimmermann, who has spent more than two decades creating a unique genre that expands the horizons of the performing arts.
02 Nicole Seiler © BAK  Charlotte Krieger

Nine more Swiss Performing Arts Awards

Further Swiss Performing Arts Awards go to Nicole Seiler, the Ballet Junior de Genève, the urban dance festivals Groove’N’Move and Breakthrough, Mathieu Bertholet, Tanya Beyeler, fleischlin/meser, Joël Maillard, Antje Schupp and Manuel Stahlberger.
03 Der Mensch erscheint im Holozän © Zoé Aubry 03

Dance Production 2020, Theatre Production 2020 & June Johnson Newcomer Prize

Awards go to Jasmin Morand’s dance production “LUMEN” and Alexander Giesche’s theatre production “Man in the Holocene” at the Schauspielhaus Zürich. The June Johnson Newcomer Prize is won by Mirjam Gurtner.
04 Theatre du Jura © Pierre Montavon

Presentation of the Swiss Performing Arts Awards 2021 on 28 October 2021

The Swiss Performing Arts Awards will be presented on 28 October at the new Théâtre du Jura in Delémont. The event will also be live-streamed on the websites schweizerkulturpreise.ch/remiseprixscene, arttv.ch and spectyou.com gestreamt.
05 LUMEN Jasmine Morand © Gregory Batardon

Calls for submissions for the Swiss Performing Arts Awards 2022

The next entries for the June Johnson Newcomer Prize, Dance Production 2021 and Cultural Heritage – Performing Arts can be submitted between 5 October and 9 November 2021 via the FOC’s support platform.
darstellende-kuenste-mollard

Promotions & social media @swissperformingartsawards

The new hashtag for the Swiss Performing Arts Awards on Instagram and Facebook is @swissperformingartsawards. Coverage of the awards will continue until the partner events in spring 2022.

Théâtre du Jura

Save the date – presentation of the Swiss Performing Arts Awards 2021

The first Swiss Performing Arts Awards presentation ceremony will take place on 28 October 2021 at the Théâtre du Jura in Delémont. The names of the winners will be announced on 2 September.
Videobotschaften Theaterjury

Video messages for the Swiss Theatre Awards 2020

To replace the Swiss Theatre Awards presentation ceremony which had to be cancelled in 2020, the seven members of the Federal Theatre Jury recorded a video message for each of the winners. You can view them online.
Mimos Buchcover Jossi Wieler

Presentation of the Hans Reinhart Ring 2020 to Jossi Wieler at the launch of the Swiss Theatre Yearbook MIMOS

The Swiss Theatre Yearbook MIMOS devoted to the winner of the Swiss Grand Award for Theatre / Hans Reinhart Ring 2020 will be published in May. The book launch will take place at 11 a.m. on 9 May in a virtual format as part of the Swiss Theatre Encounter. It will also see the official presentation of the Hans Reinhart Ring 2020 to Jossi Wieler, again in a virtual format.
Logo Tanzfest 2021

2019 Dance Awards and 2020 Theatre Awards promotions

Some of the winners of the Swiss Dance Awards 2019 and Swiss Theatre Awards 2020 will be present at the Tanzfest dance festival, the Swiss Theatre Encounter and the Artists’ Fair this spring. Information about the formats will be published on the events’ websites.
Tanztheater Dritter Frühling «Moebius Strip»

Support for three Cultural Heritage – Performing Arts projects

Support for Dance as Cultural Heritage projects has been extended to include projects linked to the performing arts in general. Following the competition held in autumn 2020, three projects were chosen: “The Dritter Frühling dance theatre performs Gilles Jobin’s ‘Moebius Strip’”; “Arte, cultura e società. Il Libro sulla MOPS_DanceSyndrome”; and “Contemporary dance in Ticino: Claudio Schott”.
Claudio Schott in NARCISO 1990

Next calls for submissions

Entries for the June Johnson Newcomer Prize 2022, for the 2021 choreographic productions and for support to projects linked to Cultural Heritage – Performing Arts can be submitted between 5 October and 9 November 2021 via the FOC’s support platform.

Last modification 28.09.2021

Top of page

Contact

Federal Office of Culture
Section Cultural Creativity
Performing arts
Claudia Rosiny
Hallwylstrasse 15
3003 Bern
Phone +41 58 465 39 19
E-mail

Print contact

https://www.bak.admin.ch/content/bak/en/home/cultural-creativity/darstellende-kuenste/aktuelles/darstellende-kuenste-aktuelles-2021.html