The registration process starts on Tuesday, 25.11.2025.
Welcome to the Swiss Dance Days 2026!
We warmly invite you to register as a presenter and join us for the festival.
To receive the registration link for presenters please contact Claudio Richard: info@swissdancedays.ch
National and international presenters who are interested in the Swiss Dance Days can subscribe here to our newsletter in order to receive comprehensive information on the programme and how to participate.
After your registration you will find detailed information and a link to our ticket shop for presenters, where you can purchase your show tickets at the special professional rate of CHF 10 per ticket.
We offer three tour options for presenters:
• Early Arrivers 3-Day Tour – including all shows from Wednesday to Friday —> PDF
• Late Arrivers 3-Day Tour – including all shows from Thursday to Saturday —> PDF
• Relaxed 4-Day Tour – including one show per day from Wednesday to Saturday —> PDF
Due to limited capacity, we are unable to offer a four-day tour and therefore kindly recommend planning your visit for three days during the Swiss Dance Days.
Please make sure to book your tickets early and according to your preferred tour option, as some venues have limited seating.
Furthermore, we warmly recommend exploring our context programme during your stay.
All events, the context programme and catering options for organisers are listed here. (As of 16.12.2025)
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Thanks to the kind support of Pro Helvetia – Swiss Arts Council, we are pleased to contribute to accommodation costs under the following conditions:
• For international presenters as well as those travelling from the French- and Italian-speaking regions of Switzerland
• Support is available for a maximum of three nights
• A maximum of two people per institution can benefit from this rate
We are happy to offer the following rates:
Early Bird Hotel Booking (bookable until 4 January 2026)
• CHF 70 / single room per night (instead of CHF 145)
• CHF 90 / double room per night (instead of CHF 165)
Late Bird Hotel Booking (bookable from 5 January – 26 January 2026)
• CHF 110 / single room per night (instead of CHF 145)
• CHF 130 / double room per night (instead of CHF 165)
Should you wish to extend your stay by an additional night, the regular hotel rate will apply. Please note that the number of rooms at this special rate is limited. To help minimise environmental impact, we kindly encourage you to travel by train for journeys to Bern of less than 10 hours.
We look forward to welcoming you to Bern!
Three senior producers accompany the thirteen companies selected for the artistic programme of Swiss Dance Days 2026. As Match Makers, they act both strategically and caringly – they are sparring partners and bridge builders at the same time.
With Match Makers, we are continuing our successful collaboration between producers, artists and international presenters. The project sees itself as a support programme for sustainable relationships, targeted strategies and artistic networking across national borders.
In advance, they work with the companies to develop individual distribution strategies and establish contacts with national and international presenters who are travelling to the Swiss Dance Days, with the aim of targeting a few meaningful encounters rather than having mass emailing end up nowhere. During the Swiss Dance Days (11–14 February 2026), they organise meetings, initiate discussions and mediate between the artists and presenters on site.
After the festival, they continue their work with the companies: in an individual follow-up discussion, they reflect on the experiences and outline the next steps – so that the encounters in Berne can lead to long-term collaborations and guest performances.
The Match Makers are not a substitute for the producers, who do excellent and important work for the companies, but rather strategic companions who, from a neutral position, open up access and bring people into contact with each other in a caring and considered manner.
Our three Match Makers are - please do not hesitate to contact them if you wish to meet the selected artists during the Swiss Dance Days.
damien@swissdancedays.ch
Graduated from the DAMS program at the University of Bologna, he began working as a producer for the Swiss theatre company Compagnie du Passage. At the same time, he collaborated with the Italian artist Cosimo Terlizzi as a performer and actor in several projects: Folder (2009), L’uomo doppio (2012), Dentro di te c’è la terra (2019). From 2015 to 2021, he worked with choreographer Alessandro Sciarroni, recipient of the Golden Lion for lifetime achievement, as an assistant, communication manager, and performer in the piece Aurora. Since 2019, he has been in charge of touring and distribution for choreographer Marco D’Agostin, a two-time Ubu Award winner. In 2020, he co-created «Lamia Santolina», an art garden that explores the ecosystemic relationships within the environment. It is located in South Italy, in Puglia, in a rural setting that combines contemporary creative research with rural culture.
Franziska Ruoss was born in Switzerland. After graduating from high school and spending extended periods abroad, she studied English, Nordic, and comparative literature at the Universities of Basel and Zurich. Between 2011 and 2015, she assisted with directing and dramaturgy at various Swiss city theatres and theatre and dance festivals, worked in public relations for the Basel Symphony Orchestra, and curated the literary event series BücherBerge at the Swiss Alpine Museum. She was then hired as a dramaturg at the Konzerttheater Bern (now Bühnen Bern) for the 2015/16 season. This was followed by two further seasons at the Theater Orchester Biel Solothurn, where she was employed as a consultant to the drama department and project manager. From 2016 to 2020, she also worked as a project manager and, at times, as a dramaturge for Ensemble ö! für Neue Musik. From 2019 to 2022, she was production manager for the Compagnie Tabea Martin and completed the part-time course in Curating in the Performing Arts at the University of Salzburg. Since the 22/23 season, she has been a member of the program team at HELLERAU - European Center for the Arts Dresden.
Born in Switzerland and based in Hong Kong, Stéphane Noël has worked extensively as a producer and curator of contemporary performing arts. He was the director of Les Urbaines festival and the co-director of Belluard festival, in Switzerland. Since 2023, Stéphane serves as artistic advisor in Azkuna Zentroa in Bilbao.Over the last ten years, Stéphane has not only continued producing and distributing the work of independent artists from Europe and Asia, but has also been collaborating with public and private institutions, producing platforms, showcase or networking events on their behalf.
