The other winners of the Swiss Performing Arts Award 2024 are Anne Delahaye, Petra Fischer, Ursina Greuel, Ueli Hirzel, Marchepied Cie, Old Masters, Ivy Monteiro, Philippe Olza and Adina Secretan.
The dance production L’œil nu by Maud Blandel and the theatre production Introducing Living Smile Vidya by Living Smile Vidya were singled out this year. The June Johnson Newcomer Prize goes to Anna-Marija Adomaityte.
The Swiss Performing Arts Awards ceremony will take place at the Theater Casino Zug on 31 October 2024 in the presence of Federal Councillor Ignazio Cassis. It will be streamed on the Swiss Culture Awards website.
Entries for the June Johnson Newcomer Prize, the Dance Production 2024 and Performing Arts Heritage can be submitted between 15 October and 12 November 2024 on the FOC platform for supporting subsidies (FPF).
The FOC works closely with the following partners to promote the Awards: the Swiss Association for Theatre Studies (SGTK), the Schweizer Künstlerbörse, Das Tanzfest and the Swiss Theatre Encounter.
Rébecca Balestra will showcase her many talents at the opening of the Schweizer Künstlerbörse on 17 April 2024. Julia Reichert will also be involved in several parts of the festival’s programme.
Swiss Performing Arts Award winners from the world of dance will be performing all over Switzerland as part of Das Tanzfest’s Dance on Tour 2024 programme: Cindy Van Acker, Marc Oosterhoff / Cie Moost, Ruth Childs, InQdrt and Tiziana Conte (presenting Elena Boillat).
In addition to the new production Préparation pour un Miracle by Marc Oosterhoff / Cie Moost in the SÉLECTION category, the Swiss Theatre Encounter will also feature the following award winners: Tiziana Conte, Barbara Giongo and Nataly Sugnaux Hernandez, Mathieu Bertholet, Maya Bösch and several members of Ticino is Burning.
The new MIMOS – Swiss Performing Arts Yearbook volume on Cindy Van Acker, winner of the Swiss Grand Award for the Performing Arts / Hans Reinhart Ring 2023, will be presented at the ADC pavilion in Geneva on 2 May as part of Das Tanzfest.
The next Swiss Performing Arts Awards ceremony will take place at the Theater Casino Zug on 31 October 2024. The FOC will announce the winners on 19 September.
Three of the seven projects submitted in autumn 2023 were chosen to receive FOC support: akar – past, presence, future, Mission Rudolf and a documentary on the festival “cultural heritage, dance!”.
Entries for the Swiss Dance Production 2024, the June Johnson Newcomer Prize 2025 and Performing Arts Heritage 2025 can be submitted between 15 October and 12 November 2024 on the FOC platform for supporting subsidies (FPF).
