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The funding and network project of Migros Culture Percentage for inclusive cultural practice.

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disframe wants to bring art to the stage.
Art by people with disabilities and people with chronic illnesses.
In Switzerland.
In many different places.
In many different houses.
This art should be shown as a matter of course.
It should be equal with the art of artists without disabilities.
And not just once, but again and again.

disframe shows stage art by people with disabilities and people with chronic illnesses.
This is how disframe shows:
Power must be distributed differently.
So far, people have been excluded.
They experience marginalisation and discrimination.
Their art is less visible.
The disframe programme aims to change this.
In all cultural centres in Switzerland.

disframe wants to open up spaces.
So that the art of people with disabilities and people with chronic illnesses is shown more.
So that more people can see them.

disframe commissions and pays artists with disabilities and people with chronic illnesses.
The focus is on what the artists need.
So that they can work well.
For example:

enough time
enough breaks
sign language interpretations
information in plain language

Programme disframe 2025

disframe is showing a programme of art by artists with disabilities and chronic illnesses from 19. - 30. May 2025.
They come from all parts of Switzerland.
And from other countries.
The programme aims to reduce discrimination against artists with disabilities.
And it wants to ask questions.
Questions that change the way we work in culture.

There are many different offers:

These people have selected the programme:
Alessandro Schiattarella and Inga Laas.
Together with the programme group.
These people are in the programme group:
Victoria Antonova, Deborah Neininger, Jasmin Rechsteiner, Anne Skouvaklis and Daniele Zanella.

disframe shows stage art together with these partners:

BewegGrund in Bern
Out of the Box in Geneva
Orme in Lugano
Wildwuchs in Basel
Gessnerallee Theatre in Zurich

The shows can be seen at all of these locations.
You could also say:
The shows go on tour through Switzerland.

There are also other programmes on the topic of inclusion in culture:

Discussion rounds
Workshops
Master Classes

Everyone can take part in the workshops.
The Master Classes are for people who work in the Culture Unit themselves.

A male wheelchair dancer and a female East Asian dancer are on the floor in an embrace. The female dancer is on her back, and the wheelchair dancer is perpendicular to the other dancer, but upside down as if in a head stand. His faced away from the camera. The East Asian dancer has her arms wrapped gently around the other dancer's back as if to support his headstand. Her eyes closed, hair draped gently on the floor. The image juxtaposes serenity and tension. The still wheel of the wheelchair is suspended in mid air, being a focal point of this image. The dancers are on a light coloured floor in light golden coloured costume. There is an amber light coming from behind the dancers cutting through the haze cast against the pitch black backdrop. Photography by Chris Parkes

Stopgap Dance Company (UK)

The piece «Lived Fiction» shows that dance can be radically accessible. It can be powerful. And it can help us to find new ideas for a good future for everyone. Everyone can experience this dance piece. Because accessibility is part of the piece.

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