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Switzerland moves
Die Schweiz bewegt
100 years of dance in Switzerland
This short film on the history of dance in Switzerland was produced to accompany the launch of the Swiss Dance Awards. Every second year since 2012, the Federal Office of Culture has presented dance awards in various categories, while in the alternate years it has honoured projects on Switzerland’s dance heritage, to raise awareness of and promote the nation’s rich cultural history in this area. Full details of the awards and the Dance as Cultural Heritage support programme can be found at www.danceawards.ch.
For this eight-minute film, choreographer Karin Hermes brought together material from numerous historical documents and works by current Swiss dance practitioners to create an exciting visual portrait of 100 years of Swiss dance history, featuring internationally renowned greats from the past such as Mary Wigman, Kurt Jooss and Sigurd Leeder, who developed modern dance in the early 20th century on Monte Verità, alongside leading contemporary figures in the Swiss scene including Anna Huber, Thomas Hauert, Gilles Jobin, Philippe Saire and Nicole Seiler.
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https://www.bak.admin.ch/bak/en/home/cultural-creativity/dance/swiss-dance-awards.html
