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Sacre du 3sième printemps

Dance film

Wednesday, 25 June 2025 18:00

Tanztheater Dritter Frühling Zürich
45 Min.
German
Dance film
Studio 1
Wheelchair accessible

Probably the oldest and most successful senior dance theatre in Switzerland celebrated its 25th anniversary in 2023. Under the working title "Sacre du 3ème printemps", several well-known and experienced choreographers and their teams developed three very different interpretations of this world-famous stage work by Igor Stravinsky (music) and Vaslav Nijinsky (dance) and staged them in Zurich in spring 2023. All the choreographers have established an artistic and formal relationship to this then "revolutionary" work and realised three very different, contemporary and independent dance works with over 50 older and younger dancers.

Initially, they worked together in workshops - and then in intensive rehearsal phases - teaching, tinkering, researching, discarding and producing until the dancers stood together on stage in May 2023. They presented the audience with three different versions of "Sacre du 3ème printemps", which expressed the diverse ways in which they dealt with the work of the century in touching and exciting interpretations. The entire project was accompanied by the filmmakers Luise Hülser and Annette Carle, who filmed the entire creation process up to the performance and processed the resulting material into this wonderful, touching and intense documentary film.

The film gives a touching insight into the intensive work with the dancing amateurs and also shows the totally diverse approach of the choreographers to one of the most famous works in music and dance history. The premiere of the film at the RiffRaff cinema in Zurich was met with enthusiasm by the audience and made hearts and bodies vibrate.

Original version: Swiss German
Subtitles: German, English
Free admission

Tanztheater Dritter Frühling Zürich

in 1997, director Roger Nydegger, producer Charlotte Madörin and choreographers Meret Schlegel and Franzisca Schaub came together to stage a dance theatre with older people in collaboration with the Zurich Festival and the Theater der Nationen to mark the 150th anniversary of the Swiss Confederation.we were interested in how the dialogue between the generations can be realised artistically and what happens when younger professional dance and theatre makers develop a dance theatre with amateur performers aged 60 and over.

More than 150 people between the ages of 60 and 82 responded to our call for proposals "The dignity of the ageing body".

With the first production of the piece "ohn end", Tanztheater Dritter Frühling - TT3F for short - was born. After its premiere in the Rigiblick theatre in June 1998, the piece toured throughout Switzerland and Germany. Invitations to renowned festivals (e.g. Berner Tanztage, Festival de Nyon) followed. Over a period of 23 years, a production centre for intergenerational and professionally developed dance theatre pieces by and with people over 60 was established. The association founded in 2000 supports and promotes the concerns of the TT3F.

TT3F received the Canton of Zurich's Prize for Cultural Participation in 2020 and was awarded a "Cultural Heritage Dance" grant by the Federal Office of Culture in spring 2021 for the "Moebius Strip" project (2020). The TT3F has been regularly supported by the Otto Beisheim Foundation and various other foundations and public institutions since 2019.

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