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Migros Culture Percentage disframe aims to enable and establish the regular, equal and self-evident scheduling of artists with disabilities and/or chronic illnesses at theatres and on stages in Switzerland.

disframe curates stage art by creative artists with disabilities and/or chronic illnesses by adopting positions that are critical of power and sensitive to discrimination. Based on this selection, disframe puts together a recurring programme and places it with event organisers and cultural venues in Switzerland.

disframe thus aims to open up spaces for co-creative approaches and perspectives from creative artists who are underrepresented and therefore rarely acknowledged or considered.

disframe commissions and pays the selected creative artists and, together with the partner institutions, prioritises their concerns to enable cultural creation on an equal footing. This includes concepts such as crip time, resting and aesthetics of accessas part of the production process.

Programme disframe 2025

From May to June 2025, Migros Culture Percentage disframe will present a programme of national and international crip art stage artists in all parts of Switzerland. The programme consists of dance, stand-up comedy and performance and deliberately aims to artistically question ableist practices and habits.

Alessandro Schiattarella and Inga Laas are responsible for the artistic co-direction of the programme. The productions were curatorially selected by the programme group. The disframe 25 programme group includes Victoria Antonova, Deborah Neininger, Jasmin Rechsteiner, Anne Skouvaklis and Daniele Zanella.

disframe and its partners BewegGrund in Bern, Out of the Box in Geneva, Orme in Lugano and Wildwuchs in Basel as well as Theaterhaus Gessnerallee in Zurich will present the selected plays. As part of the tour, various talks, workshops and master classes will be offered on the topic of inclusive cultural practice.

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)

A brilliant production by the Stopgap Dance Company celebrates its Swiss premiere! With «Lived Fiction», the Stopgap Dance Company, which has been advocating social change for twenty years, presents a pioneering statement for inclusive dance.

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A person with curly hair and bright red tips is wearing a black-and-white patterned top with abstract color splashes and is sitting in a wheelchair. They are wearing a black pearl necklace and a red lightning bolt earring. Around them are six different movie characters, some in costumes or uniforms, such as George Clooney as a doctor or characters from Star Trek. The background is a vibrant blue-purple speckled with white stars. At the bottom, the words "RUN DADDY RUN" are prominently displayed.

Edwin Ramirez (CH)

A humorous search for the formative father figures of one's own development. Who makes us the person we are?

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The photograph features Irene, Giro, and Fia Naises. The two performers from "with or without you." Both are white and disabled. Both are perceived as female and non-disabled. Irene has dense brown, long curls and is slender. Fia has dark blonde, straight, ear-length hair. Her body is larger and softer than Irene's. The photograph shows both in white silk, a 14-meter-long fabric that is hung from the ceiling in the middle. The ends hang heavily to the floor, and the protagonists wrap, climb, swing, hang, and hold themselves in it. Fia is blind and asked Irene what they were doing in the picture. Then they remembered. Exciting. Here, I feel observed. It seems as if you are looking directly at the viewer. Who and what is happening here? Fia is upside down in a U-shape with stretched legs and feet. Your front is facing the camera, and the silk holds you around the hips. The white bands extend exactly parallel from your hips up to the ceiling on both sides. Your hands rest on each side of the silk. And in between sits Irene with her back to the camera. Fia, you held yourself very much in the moment to not give your full weight. Irene's legs are as stretched as Fia's. But downwards. We are like a geometric figure, and what's amusing is that the clothing here is the same color, making it unclear where your crotch ends and my buttocks begin.

Fia Neises (D)

The disabled dancers Fia Neises and Irene Giró tell stories of ambivalence and intimacy and invite the audience to participate or observe.

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A person is sitting on the floor of a stage bathed in red light. They are wearing a black outfit and have short hair. The torso is bent forward, with their gaze directed towards the floor in front of them. The legs are tucked behind the torso, and one hand rests on the knee. With the other hand, the person supports themselves on the floor.

No Anger (F)

A game with visibility: who gets to show themselves, who becomes a spectacle? How do our normative body images influence our perception of real bodies - and how can a crip-bodymind free themselves from these attributions?

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