Manuela Runge lives and works as a theater and dance artist in Zürich. After completing the training in 2007 in theater pedagogy and 2014 in dance education, is she working with various cultural institutions, and different groups of people with different ages. She works with Schauspielhaus Zurich, Haus Konstruktiv, Tanzhaus Zürich, Kunsthaus Zürich and in schools with the department for theatre of Zürich. As a cultural mediator, she combines the arts of dance, theater and performance, exploring possibilities of expressing herself with people of all ages and Abilities. Since the Teacher Training in DanceAbility with Alito Alessi in Vienna at the ImPulsTanz Festival 2016, Manuela Runge is committed to an inclusive culture and cultural participation for all people. For 2 years she regularly teaches dance workshops according to the DanceAbilitymethod in inclusive dance improvisation for adults and also for children in the Tanzhaus Zürich. With her recently founded association TANZflug, she and her colleagues, want to make visible the contemporary inclusive dance in Zurich. She is a board Member of ASSITEJ SCHWEIZ - International Association of theatre for children and young people.
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DanceAbility
Manuela Runge, Andrea Frei, Corina Arbenz, Jeanine Elsener
DanceAbility is an inclusive dance method that is open to all people. For experienced and less experienced dancers, with and without disabilities.
We work with improvisation and contact improvisation. We use our own movement language to create and experience creative and artistic processes with others. This creates collective dance experiences and joy in one's own diversity of movement.
- Bühne 2
Tanzhaus Zürich
Wasserwerkstrasse 129
8037 Zürich - Wheelchair accessible
- Wheelchair accessible
- Some dates are with sign language interpreter (German), info always on Tanzflug.ch
- Assistance dogs are welcome.
- The room and toilets are wheelchair accessible.
- There are chairs and mats. We can take breaks at any time.
- There is a tactile introduction to the room if needed.
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- Open for everyone – experienced and less experienced dancers, for people with and without disabilities.
- Insurance is the responsibility of the participants.
Andrea Frei studied dance theatre in Zurich and London. She then danced in various projects (including by Marcel Leemann) and at the Zurich Opera House. At the Escena Mobile Festival 2017 in Seville, she presented her jointly developed piece estoy aqui contigo together with a dancer from Danza Mobile. Further collaborations and formats emerged, including with Ainsley Tharp, Alejandro Iturra Gonzalez and Eva Priečková. A guest directing position for René Pollesch followed at the Schauspielhaus Zurich. Together with Lea Vejnovic and Raphael Zürcher she developed the performance bewegt. The piece was shown at TANKSTELLE at Südpol and then toured at the IntegrART Festival 2021. At Tanzhaus Zürich Andrea teaches improvisation. She also studied Social Policy and Special Education (MA) at the University of Fribourg. In 2021/22 she is TPO Associated Artist and develops the project Sehnsuchtskollektionen together with Fiammina Catti.
Jeanine Elsener is a dancer and movement teacher of the Franklin Method®. She began her dance training at the Ballet School for the Zurich Opera House and subsequently studied the Muller Polarity Technique in St.Gallen and in New York. In 2002 she completed her training at the Rotterdamse Dansacademie, now Codarts.
She works as a freelance dancer for different projects and as a teacher for various institutions such as STEPS, Sprachheilschule Unterägeri, PH Zug, Insieme and for her own movement courses. In 2018 she realised her first inclusive project so und nicht anders, which was shown at the Tanzfest Zug. In the summer of 2021 she was able to complete the DanceAbility Teacher Certification with Alito Alessi in Vienna to deepen her work in the field of inclusive dance.
