Programme

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 access as part of the production process.

The following text and acts refer to the 2025 programme:

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.