In June 2025, the PERFORMAGE association is staging the first theatre festival with productions featuring people aged 60+. Projects from German-speaking Switzerland, French-speaking Switzerland, Ticino and Germany will be shown and experienced.
«Zopf ab» und «Das Opfer des Frühlingsopfers»
with festival opening
Friday, 20 June 2025 19:15
Tanztheater Dritter Frühling Zürich
90 Min.
German
Dance theatre
Presentation in the hall
Wheelchair accessible
19.3 pm Festival opening by
- Dalit Bloch and Reto Ambauen, Co-Presidents of the PERFORMAGEAssociation
- Greetings from Dr Armin Hartmann, Director of Education and Culture of the Canton of Lucerne
Followed by a performance in the hall
"Pigtail off"
Get rid of the victim role. As researchers, we prefer to raise questions and dig deeper into the human condition. We search through the rules of coexistence and experiment along their boundaries and differences. How can we stand together and what drives us apart? Did something really go terribly wrong after the Big Bang and is there already a ghost marching next to me? Are we already losing control? A musician combines and varies live with musical elements.
Choreography/concept: Angelika Aechter and Katrin Oettli
Composition & live music: Ralf Buron
Video: Katrin Oettli
Performance: Hanna Brunner, Alojz J. Cerar, Agatha Gachnang, Katharina Haas, Barbara Halter, Heidemarie Hirschauer, Monika Imfeld, Verena Kromer, Oda Ursula Müller-Ruff, Hannah Munz, Monika Schär-Walder, Luce-Hélène Tardent, Monika Waldmeier, Christina Widmer
"THE VICTIM OF THE SPRING SACRIFICE"
With us, everyone is a victim, even though we don't deal with the subject of sacrifice: We approach Stravinsky's legendary work directly through the score and play the notes with our bodies. Our body orchestra with the participants of the TT3F exposes itself directly and unconditionally to the powerful music and virtually sacrifices itself to its own 25th anniversary celebrations. In addition to the conductor, who is just as much at the mercy of the action as the TT3F, two professional dancers and students from the Zurich University of Applied Sciences for Special Needs Education (HfH) occasionally storm the stage and stir up the action to celebrate the big event.
Concept/choreography: Philipp Egli
Assistance: Laura Haller
Professional dancer: Mara Peyer
Conductor: Hanspeter Blatter
Dancers TT3F: Helmut Dasing, Marie Egli, Janine Marie Gehri, Elvi Leu, Margrith Nagel, Doris Schellenberg, Ursula Tobler, Renate Zimmermann
Dancers HfH: Michèle Breu, Sarah Christ, Laura Haller, Ledna Oettli, Andrea Cattel, Bettina Knecht, Manuel Siegrist
Music recording used:
The Rite of Spring, Royal Liverpool Orchestra, Vasily Petrenko, Onyx Classics
For both productions:
Concept/production management: Roger Nydegger, Janina Kriszun
Stage/costumes: Doris Berger, Sona Nydegger, Karin Giezendanner
Make-up: Mira Frehner
Technology: Flavio von Burg/Karin Gizendanner
Ticket prices:
CHF 30.00 /
CHF 20.00 Tanztheater Dritter Frühling Zürich
In 1997 the director Roger Nydegger, the producer Charlotte Madörin and the 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 implemented artistically and what happens when younger professional dance and theatre makers develop 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 for "The dignity of the ageing body".
With the first production of the piece "ohn end" the Tanztheater Dritter Frühling - TT3F for short - was born. After its premiere at 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 of 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.
The 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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