• Source: Swiss Dance Awards

The Swiss Dance Awards are a former set of awards presented biennially, since 2021 merged with the Swiss Theatre Awards as the Swiss Performing Arts Awards.




History


The Swiss Dance Awards were created as a federal support to dance, introduced as part of the Federal law of encouragement to culture. They were created in 2012 by the Swiss Confederation, as a measure to encourage the dance world. Since 2013 the Federal Dance Jury, the prizes are awarded every two years in collaboration with the Federal Office of Culture (FOC).
It pursued and furthered the objectives of the Swiss Dance and Choreography prize (2002–2011). The [Swiss Confederation] having taken up the prize as recognition and support in its objectives.
The first ceremony of this award took place in the Theatre l'Equilibre in Fribourg in 2013. The awards were presented biennially by the Federal Office of Culture (FOC) from 2013 to 2019. In 2021, they were merged with the Swiss Theatre Awards, as the Swiss Performing Arts Awards, and are presented annually at a joint ceremony.




Categories


The Swiss Grand Award for Dance pays tribute to an artistic career and is the top prize of 40,000 francs awarded by the Federal Dance Jury. An equal amount is assigned to the Special Dance Award as a recompense for an exceptional contribution in the fields of mediation, documentation or cultural policy. As part of the "Current Dance Creation" competition the jury allocates four Swiss Dance Awards each of 25,000 francs. The June Johnson Prize is given in collaboration with the Stanley Thomas Johnson Foundation and rewards the upcoming dance generation. An Award of 25,000 francs is endowed to Outstanding Female and Male Dancers for their performing role.




Dance Awards Laureates






= Swiss Grand Award for Dance

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2019: La Ribot
2017: Noemi Lapzeson
2015: Gilles Jobin
2013: Martin Schläpfer




= Swiss Dance Awards

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2019

Flow - Compagnie Linga & Keda
Hate me, tender - Teresa Vittucci
Speechless Voices - Compagnie Greffe/Cindy Van Acker
Vicky setzt Segel - Company Mafalda/Teresa Rotemberg



2017

Creature-József Trefeli & Gábor Varga
iFeel3-*MELK Prod./Marco Berrettini
inaudible-ZOO/Thomas Hauert
Le Récital des Posture-Yasmine Hugonnet



2015

Souffle - DA MOTUS! / Brigitte Meuwly and Antonio Bühler
Requiem - Tanzcompagnie Konzert Theater Bern / Nanine Linning
bits C 128Hz - miR Compagnie / Béatrice Goetz
Orthopädie or to be - Kilian Haselbeck/Meret Schlegel



2013

Sideways Rain - Alias Cie / Guilherme Botelho
From B to B - Thomas Hauert/ZOO et Àngels Margarit/Cia Mudances
Disabled Theater - Theater HORA / Jérôme Bel
Diffraction - Cie Greffe / Cindy Van Acker




= June Johnson Dance Price

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2019: Unplush / Marion Zurbach
2017: Hyperion – Higher States Part 2 - Antibodies/Kiriakos Hadjiioannou
2015: Requiem for a piece of meat - 3art3 company, Daniel Hellmann
2013: Dark Side Of The Moon - Asphalt Piloten, Anna Anderegg




= Special Dance Award

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2019: Dominique Martinoli
2017: AIEP Avventure in Elicottero Prodotti
2015: Claude Ratzé/ADC Genf
2013: Théâtre Sévelin 36




= Outstanding feminine and masculine dancers

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2019: Marie-Caroline Hominal / Edouard Hue
2017: Marthe Krummenacher / Tamara Bacci
2015: Simone Aughterlony / Ioannis Mandafounis
2013: Yen Han / Foofwa d’Imobilité




References

Kata Kunci Pencarian:

• Just Dance (lagu)
• Dance Again
• La Femme et le TGV
• Madonna
• Dance the Night
• Daftar penghargaan dan nominasi yang diterima oleh Lady Gaga
• One Dance
• Daftar penghargaan dan nominasi yang diterima oleh BTS
• Stars Dance
• Rammstein
• Swiss Dance Awards
• List of dance awards
• Swiss Performing Arts Awards
• I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me)
• Yen Han (dancer)
• Claudia Rosiny
• Mauro Picotto
• DJ BoBo
• Swiss Music Awards
• Dance Monkey