This year’s Swiss Grand Award for the Performing Arts / Hans Reinhart Ring goes to the theatre and stage director Barbara Frey. She directs productions on prestigious German-speaking stages and is also regarded as an astute institutional head.
Further Swiss Performing Arts Awards go to Frida León Beraud, Marco Berrettini, Sophie Gardaz, Geschwister Pfister, Paola Gianoli, Yann Marussich, Mike Müller, Susanne Schneider/BewegGrund, and Ticino is Burning.
Awards go the dance production “La Peau de l’Espace” by Yasmine Hugonnet and the theatre production “Manuel d’exil” by Maya Bösch and her company sturmfrei. The June Johnson Newcomer Prize goes to the collective InQdrt.
The Swiss Performing Arts Awards will be presented on 21 October at the newly built Théâtre de Carouge. The event will be streamed live on various websites and then made available as video on demand.
The MIMOS volume on Martin Zimmermann, winner of the Swiss Grand Award for the Performing Arts / Hans Reinhart Ring 2021, was published in May and can be ordered from the publishers Peter Lang.
The next entries for the June Johnson Newcomer Prize, Dance Production 2022 and Performing Arts Heritage can be submitted between 5 October and 8 November 2022 via the FOC’s support platform.
The hashtag for the Swiss Performing Arts Awards on Instagram, Facebook and now also TikTok is #swissperformingartsawards. Coverage of the current awards will continue until the partner events in spring 2023.
Manuel Stahlberger and the duo fleischlin/meser will be appearing at the opening of the Swiss Artists’ Fair on 20 April 2022. They received Swiss Performing Arts Awards in autumn 2021.
Winners in the dance category of the Swiss Performing Arts Awards will be showing their work around Switzerland at Tanzfest. They include the Ballet Junior, the Groove’N’Move festival, Jasmine Morand, Mirjam Gurtner and 2019 Dance Awards winners Marie-Caroline Hominal, Edouard Hue, Cie Greffe/Cindy van Acker, and Cie Linga.
The Swiss Theatre Encounter will feature Martin Zimmermann, winner of the Swiss Grand Award for the Performing Arts / Hans Reinhart Ring 2021, along with Mathieu Bertholet, Béatrice Fleischlin and Nicole Seiler.
The MIMOS Swiss Performing Arts yearbook on the winner of the Swiss Grand Award for the Performing Arts / Hans Reinhart Ring 2021, Martin Zimmermann, is being published to coincide with the Theatre Encounter.
The next Swiss Performing Arts Awards will be presented on 21 October 2022 at the Théâtre de Carouge in Geneva. The winners will be announced on 8 September.
The book “50 starry years”, marking five decades of the Prix de Lausanne, was entered in the Performing Arts Heritage competition and has received support from the FOC.
The next entries for the June Johnson Newcomer Prize, Dance Production 2021 and Performing Arts Heritage can be submitted between 5 October and 8 November 2022 via the FOC’s support platform.
