Simon Waldvogel is a theatre director, playwright and performer. His artistic research revolves around the notion of loss — emotional, physical and existential — exploring absence as both a personal and collective experience. His work merges theatrical form, documentary practice and performance, often deconstructing narrative and space to expose vulnerability and transformation.
Simon has collaborated with various artists and companies in Switzerland and abroad. He is a founding member of Collettivo Treppenwitz and co-founder of TIB – Ticino Is Burning, which received the Swiss Performing Arts Award in 2022. Within Collettivo Treppenwitz, he works closely with the other founding artists across multiple projects. The collective operates as a hybrid space between a production centre and a theatre company, where artistic roles shift and evolve within each creation.
Since 2025, Simon has been collaborating as Junior Assistant to the Artistic Direction of the FIT Festival – Festival Internazionale del Teatro e della Scena Contemporanea di Lugano, within a pilot project on curatorial transition supported by M2ACT.

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Marion Zurbach is the artistic director of Unplush. She creates choreographic, theatrical, and performative works. Her work focuses on cultural legacies, marginal bodies, and collective narratives. Marion began her training at the École Nationale Supérieure de Danse de Marseille, then joined the Atelier Rudra Béjart School in Lausanne. From 2006 to 2015, she danced with the Ballet National de Marseille and the Tanz Compagnie Konzert Theater Bern. In 2018, she earned a master’s degree in «Expanded Theater» from the Bern Academy of the Arts (HKB). The following year, Unplush received the June Johnson Dance Prize. She has been commissioned as a choreographer for the Tanz Ensemble Luzerner Theater (2022), and Tanz Bielefeld (2025).

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Since 1998, the BewegGrund association has been doing pioneering work in the field of inclusive dance and is committed to equality, self-determination and inclusion. People with and without disabilities participate equally in cultural projects. The association offers workshops, teaches at schools and training centres, organises a festival every two years and carries out community dance projects.

Cie BewegGrund presents its theatre productions – fifteen professional inclusive dance pieces to date – nationally and internationally and has been recognised for its work with the Swiss Performing Arts Award (2022) and the Swiss Diversity Award (2023), among others.

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Charlotte Mclean is an award-winning Scottish-born, Bern-based interdisciplinary artist. Her practice attempts anti-capitalist, cyclical ways of working, weaving traditional Highland Dance with intersectional feminism and community values. A London Contemporary Dance School graduate and 2025 Arts Foundation Dance Fellow, her work has been presented across Europe, including Tojo Theater Bern, The Place London and Black Box Teater Oslo. She is co-founder of movement grrl-band Die Berner Band, whose works have been performed at TANZhAUS Bern, Pete the Monkey Normandy, and Alte Münze Berlin, amongst others.

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