Skip to content

Home - Swiss Performing Arts Selection

Promoting Swiss Theatre and Dance: Pro Helvetia’s Performing Arts Selection
  • Companies & Venues
  • Calendar
  • News
Promoting Swiss Theatre and Dance: Pro Helvetia’s Performing Arts Selection
0
Bookmarks

Cie Ioannis Mandafounis

December 16, 2016 April 26, 2017 Pro Helvetia
Add to Bookmarks
Share
mandafounis.com

Ioannis Mandafounis created his company in 2009, since when he has choreographed several dance pieces which have been shown at numerous venues and festivals.
Swiss Dance Award 2015 as «Outstanding Male Dancer»
(Photo by Gregory Batardon)

  • Dance
  • Installations
  • Public Space

RELATED NEWS

December 21, 2017 January 4, 2018 Pro Helvetia
Simone Aughterlony_Everything fits in the room_©Jorge Leon

New York, New York

New York is completely focused on the performing arts in January. During the Performing Arts Fair APAP and the International Congress ISPA, several independent festivals take place and Swiss creativity will also be represented.

October 19, 2017 June 14, 2018 Pro Helvetia
Rudi van der Merwe_Trophée_©Beatrix Gyenes

Dance Factory in Milano

From 24 October to 16 December the Swiss Contemporary Dance Factory will be presented in Milano, offering a rich spectrum of contemporary dance productions. The DANAE Festival and DiDstudio have invited seven stage productions from Switzerland, complemented by discussions, conferences and masterclasses.

September 14, 2017 March 5, 2018 Pro Helvetia
Dimitri de Perrot_MYOUSIC_©Augustin Rebetez

Performance Process: An Approach

The breadth and diversity of Swiss performance art from 1960 to the present is being celebrated in Basel through an exceptional institutional collaboration between Museum Tinguely, Kaserne Basel and Kunsthalle Basel in partnership with the Centre culturel suisse in Paris.

August 8, 2017 April 9, 2019 Pro Helvetia

An Invitation from La Bâtie for its «Professional Days»

Another year has passed and Geneva's two-week Festival La Bâtie beckons again! And for the eleventh year in succession we welcome you to La Bâtie's «Professional Days».

RELATED CALENDAR EVENTS

If there are no current events displayed here, please consult the company’s website for upcoming performance dates:

mandafounis.com
PAST EVENTS
 
October 7, 2019 November 8, 2019 Pro Helvetia
10 Nov -
17 Nov 2019

Premiere

Fearful Symmetries

In this commission for the Geneva Ballet as part of the format «Minimal Maximal», Mandafounis searches for a dialogue between the individual and the collective; how to rediscover intimacy within a group. He achieves this by modelling his dance on additions and subtractions in counterpoint to John Adams’ music.

Grand Théâtre de Genève • Geneva, Switzerland

 
December 11, 2018 Pro Helvetia
04 Apr -
06 Apr 2019

Premiere

Faded

A marathon evening consisting of a series of variations executed to the point of total exhaustion, in tribute to the story decreed for dancers at the end of their career. Accompanied onstage by a ballet mistress, the choreographer revives his first love, taking his bow and bidding farewell to the stage as a dancer.

Salle de Lignon • Vernier, Switzerland

 
March 27, 2018 March 18, 2019 Pro Helvetia
04 May -
06 May 2018

Special Event

Tanzfest 2018

A diverse programme in 30 towns and communities, the dance festival features among other things a touring exhibition, a breakdance battle and dance courses. Several professional dance productions will also take place, including those of Delgado Fuchs, Cie Ioannis Mandafounis and Joshua Monten.

Switzerland • , Switzerland

 
April 3, 2018 April 3, 2018 Pro Helvetia
11 Apr -
15 Apr 2018

Premiere

It Finishes When It Finishes

The performance plays with the perception of reality by performing magic on stage. It challenges the classical composition of a piece, and in a great fusion of movement and magic it explores our ability to distinguish between illusion and reality.

L’Abri • Geneva, Switzerland

 
March 27, 2018 Pro Helvetia
06 Apr -
15 Apr 2018

Festival

Performa Festival

An interdisciplinary event, oriented to experimentation and new ideas, the festival will welcome Swiss performers and companies like Cie Ioannis Mandafounis, Opera retablO and Camilla Parini as well as «Tanzfaktor» on tour with, among others, productions by Marc Oostehoff and Alessandra Schiattarella.

Ticino • Ticino, Switzerland

 
February 24, 2018 April 16, 2019 Pro Helvetia
01 Mar -
18 Mar 2018

Festival

Tanz:Now 2018

The beautiful Theater Phönix on Lake Constance opens its doors to three dance productions from Geneva in this year’s edition of «Tanz: Now»: Ballet Junior de Genève and its four-part programme, Ioannis Mandafounis with «Sing the positions» and Gilles Jobin’s virtual reality project «VR_I».

Theater Phönix • Steckborn, Switzerland

 
December 19, 2017 Pro Helvetia
09 Jan -
16 Jan 2018

Special Event

APAP and Festivals in New York

New York is completely focused on the performing arts in January. During the Performing Arts Fair APAP and the International Congress ISPA, several independent festivals take place. This year the Swiss artists Simone Aughterlony and Ioannis Mandafounis have been invited to participate.

City of New York • New York, USA

 
August 29, 2017 October 27, 2017 Pro Helvetia
01 Jan -
18 Feb 2018

Special Event

Performance Process

Switzerland celebrates 60 years of performance-art history with an extensive programme over five months at Basel’s Kunsthalle, Kaserne Basel and Tinguely Museum, in partnership with the Centre culturel suisse in Paris.

Museum Tinguely • Basel, Switzerland

 
September 21, 2017 June 14, 2018 Pro Helvetia
11 Dec -
16 Dec 2017

Special Event

Swiss Contemporary Dance Factory

The DANAE Festival and DiDstudio in Milan are cooperating to present this exciting Swiss Contemporary Dance Factory, with productions by Marco Berrettini, Tabea Martin, Yasmine Hugonnet, Ioannis Mandafounis, Rudy Van der Merwe in October/November and Martin Schick and Ruth Childs in December.

Danae Festival • Milano, Italy

 
March 15, 2017 September 21, 2017 Pro Helvetia
06 Oct -
08 Oct 2017

Premiere

Sing the positions

A unique fusion of a dance piece and a concert in the purest and simplest form. The artists merge with one another and their surroundings, blending contradictory musical elements and emotions, moving beyond meaning, concepts and structures.

Tanzhaus Zürich • Zurich, Switzerland

 
March 27, 2017 April 9, 2019 Pro Helvetia
01 Sep -
16 Sep 2017

Festival

La Bâtie 2017

La Bâtie takes its public on a sixteen-day journey to a multitude of locations, discovering the fine flower that is the contemporary scene, with new and transversal projects and artists from Switzerland and abroad. Programme 2017 to follow.

La Bâtie – Festival de Genève • Geneva, Switzerland

More Companies

June 14, 2018 Pro Helvetia

Rudi van der Merwe

Rudi van der Merwe_Trophée_©Lavonne Bosman
Add to Bookmarks

Rudi van der Merwe is based in Geneva and has been active as a choreographer since 2010, creating a series of distinctive multi-disciplinary works. More Details

rudivandermerwe.com
  • Dance
  • Performance Art
  • Public Space
December 16, 2016 April 26, 2017 Pro Helvetia

Figurentheater Margrit Gysin

Add to Bookmarks

As a freelance puppeteer, Margrit Gysin has brought her productions to festivals all over the world, including Brazil, India and throughout Europe. More Details

figurentheater-margrit-gysin.ch
  • Puppet / Object Theatre
  • Theatre
  • Young Audience
December 16, 2016 April 26, 2017 Pro Helvetia

Perrine Valli

Add to Bookmarks

Central to its artistic research are the issue of sexual identity and the relationship between narration and abstraction in choreographic work. More Details

perrinevalli.fr
  • Dance
  • Public Space

SUBSCRIBE TO NEWSLETTER

Thank you! Your subscription has been registered.

PRO HELVETIA

Swiss Arts Council

  • Hirschengraben 22
  • CH-8024 Zurich
www.prohelvetia.ch
  • performingarts@prohelvetia.ch
  • +41 44 267 71 71

Archives

  • December 2020
  • March 2020
  • February 2020
  • December 2019
  • November 2019
  • October 2019
  • September 2019
  • August 2019
  • July 2019
  • June 2019
  • May 2019
  • April 2019
  • March 2019
  • February 2019
  • January 2019
  • December 2018
  • November 2018
  • October 2018
  • September 2018
  • August 2018
  • July 2018
  • June 2018
  • May 2018
  • April 2018
  • March 2018
  • February 2018
  • January 2018
  • December 2017
  • November 2017
  • October 2017
  • September 2017
  • August 2017
  • July 2017
  • June 2017
  • May 2017
  • April 2017
Promoting Swiss Theatre and Dance: Pro Helvetia’s Performing Arts Selection
  • Imprint
  • Contact us
  • About