YOUNG DANCE Festival at the Theater Casino Zug overview
Mon 26. September – Sat 01. October 2022
International dance festival for young people
A joint production between YOUNG DANCE ZUG and the Theater- und Musikgesellschaft Zug
young | innovative | lively
This innovative dance festival for young people – the only one of its kind in Switzerland – is ready to celebrate its seventh edition! YOUNG DANCE has been making a name for itself right from the beginning with its national and international productions designed especially for a younger audience. The festival is technically on-point and uses a wide range of professional formats to give spectators a chance to feel part of the show and experience the thrill of dance at close quarters.
This year’s show will see YOUNG DANCE unveil a new digital platform, offering schools and young people all sorts of ways to take part virtually. At the same time, the festival is getting back into theatres and celebrating contact and creativity in the here and now. YOUNG DANCE is breaking new ground this autumn – ground where the virtual world combines with nature and the physical, everyday version, giving their audience a whole universe in which to discover dance in all its facets.
Wed 28. September 2022
© Astrid Künzler
Samuel Schuhmacher
«Bleistiftgeschichten»
Workshop
for ages 9+
Bergzimmer
Duration: 2.00 – 5.00 p.m.
Do you like reading comics or have you even drawn your own pictures and stories already? At this workshop you can discover the fascinating world of comics and try your own hand at making one. Are you curious about your own little or big painted story? Then you've come to the right place!
«Achten»
Mit Seraina Sidler-Tall
Workshop
for all ages
Festsaal
Duration: 4.00 – 5.30 p.m.
The workshop «Achten» creates space for mindfulness, sensuality, intuition and empathy. Through inner and outer movement, «Achten» shows simple ways to quickly and purposefully achieve healthy self-regulation and self-awareness. Experiencing polarities such as inhaling and exhaling, speed and slowness, noise and silence, fullness and emptiness initiates an inner process in which balance can take place. We understand that feelings are moving energy and discover how we can specifically build up or reduce energy through movement. In this way we achieve more balance and a serene joy of life.
© Seraina Sidler-Tall
© Charlotte Brasseau
YUMÉ
Beaver Dam Company
for ages 6+
Theatersaal
Duration: 40 min. without an intermission
«Yumé» is a wordless narration, built around a physical and virtuoso dance, where the characters live a fabulous adventure. The heroine never stops traveling, searching for her lost shadow. During her journey, she encounters strange and fantastic characters. The adventure takes her through amazing lands. Deep in the sea or lost in the clouds, she will discover supernatural places where the laws of nature are upset.
Fri 30. September 2022
Hakanaï
Adrien M & Claire B
for schools
for ages 10+
Theatersaal (Bühne)
Duration: 40 min. without an intermission
A choreography that reflects the fleeting nature of dreams and the impermanence of things with the help of the most modern technical means.
© Romain Etienne
Sat 01. October 2022
«TANZ & SCHULE»
Workshop in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Tanznetzwerk Schweiz reso
To make the diversity of dance education projects at or with schools visible, Reso launched a survey in mid-June. The aim is to collect projects that have already been carried out at national level. The projects will be compiled in a booklet so that they can be passed on to other schools, mediation agencies, theatres or festivals if possible.
As part of the YOUNG DANCE Festival, experts will discuss the existing offers and possibilities in the current cultural landscape in a workshop.
More information on the event: info@youngdance.ch
© Şafak Velioğlu
COMETA
Roser López Espinosa & Vorpommern tanzt an
for ages 5+
Festsaal
Duration: 40 min. without an intermission, with talk & workshop after the performance approx. 85 min.
«COMETA» is a galactic adventure to wonder at the force of gravity, the possibilities of movement and empathy with others.
Hakanaï
Adrien M & Claire B
for ages 10+
Theatersaal (Bühne)
Duration: 40 min. without an intermission
A choreography that reflects the fleeting nature of dreams and the impermanence of things with the help of the most modern technical means.
© Romain Etienne
