Neopost Foofwa

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Neopost Foofwa is a Geneva-based association founded in 2000 and currently directed by Foofwa d’Imobilité, choreographer, and Jonathan O’Hear, scenographer and lighting designer. The company produces contemporary dance creations – both theatre and outdoor performances. It has also developed an interest in the analysis of dance and its history.
Swiss Dance Award 2013 as «Outstanding Male Dancer»
(Photo by Steeve Iuncker)

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27 Sep -
06 Oct 2019

Special Event

Dancewalk Ultra Valais

Dancewalk Ultra, which links culture and sport, questions the notion of performance. Designed specifically to highlight the diversity of canton Valais, it is an artistic and athletic rallying event with a 10-day journey of 200 kilometers between the Rhone glacier and Lake Geneva.Dancewalk Ultra Valais

Canton of Valais • Valais / Wallis, Switzerland

PAST EVENTS

06 Feb -
09 Feb 2019

Special Event

Swiss Dance Days

The 10th edition of this promotion platform takes place in Lausanne and presents a selection of productions to international professionals as well as to a large audience. The programme includes 15 Swiss performances from different regions of the country, which have been created over the past two seasons.

City of Lausanne • Lausanne, Switzerland

09 Jan -
18 Jun 2019

Festival

Hiver de Danses

Longer than winter, the programme spans several months and takes place in different locations in the canton of Neuchâtel. Emerging and established artists present a season of contemporary Swiss dance. Featuring Foofwa d’Imobilité, Tabea Martin, Cie Gilles Jobin, Cie Yasmine Hugonnet and others.

Neuchâtel • Neuchâtel, Switzerland

14 Nov -
18 Nov 2018

Premiere

DANSONgS – Refuge

Consider the body first and foremost as a sound-producing tool, movement as musicality and these DANSONgS as protest songs. Hope through rhythm. Songs and a film: Refuge.

ADC-Genève • Geneva, Switzerland

26 May -
31 May 2018

Premiere

GLocal: DANSONgS / Dancewalk

In what way could a dance movement resemble a concert? Foofwa d'Imobilité's little pieces together form a novel recital which immediately melds movement, song and poetry into a dynamic that is as dazzling as a popular tune.

Centre Chorégraphique National de Nantes • Nantes, France

28 Feb -
11 Mar 2018

Premiere

/Unitile

Eleven stateless artists and citizens of the 21st century seek the causes of their drifting. They discover the source of some current sorrows in the underlying thoughts and lost gestures of the 19th century’s final throes - and find a remedy: an unpredictable, regenerating dance without borders.

ADC-Genève • Geneva, Switzerland

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

27 Nov -
20 Dec 2017

Special Event

Swiss Window in Asia: 3rd part

This year, Pro Helvetia's second «Swiss Window in Asia» presents four major tours by Swiss artists in China, Japan, Vietnam, Korea, Thailand, Singapore and the Philippines. In November Daniel Hellmann, PENG! Palast and Neopost Foofwa will set off for Yokohama, Manila, Hong Kong, Bangkok, Hangzhou, Guangzhou und Shanghai.

Different Locations • Hongkong, Yokohama, Singapore, China, Japan, Singapore