Cie Ioannis Mandafounis

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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)

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.

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.

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.

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».

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PAST EVENTS

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

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

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

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

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

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

09 Jan -
16 Jan 2018

Special Event

APAP and Festivals in New York

City of New York • New York, USA

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

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

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

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

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