Discipline: Performing Arts

Faizal Mostrixx is a self-taught Ugandan dancer, choreographer and music producer who has pioneered a singular Afro-futurist hybrid musical style. His infectious new sound, “tribal electronics”, weaves regional beats, instruments and moods with electronic soundscapes and hypnotic indigenous urban dances. In his music and performances, Mostrixx tells stories that explore concepts of futurism and ignite …

Annina Machaz is a multimedia and performing arts practitioner in the Swiss theatre scene. She has been creating sculptures and paper mâché masks for her performances since the beginning of her career. Annina often uses masks to explore the link between humour and the grotesque in her work, and is interested in the ways that …

Geneva based, Kinshasa born dancer and choreographer Jolie Ngemi is preparing a new solo choreographic project titled “Nkisi” which will premiere in March 2023 at the Arsenic in Lausanne. Jolie will undertake a research trip in two parts in the DRC and South Africa to improve her knowledge of traditional ritual and the magical practices …

Yann Marussich is a Swiss performance and contemporary artist with a self-taught education of the body. Since 2001 he has been exploring living immobility in his work. In a research trip in Mozambique from 4-16 December 2022, Yann will travel to Maputo, Nampula and Ilha de Mozambique for professional meetings with actors and to visit …

Gavin Krastin and Alan Parker are a South African creative duo who have been working together for over a decade. As multidisciplinary artists working predominantly in live art performance, Gavin and Alan’s interests lie in the body’s representation in alternative and layered spaces. Their practice straddles theatre, dance, visual arts and curatorship, resulting in artworks …

Swiss choreographer and dancer Alessandro Schiattarella will be in Cape Town, South Africa from 13 November – 9 December 2022 to continue his work with Unmute Dance Company exploring shared interests in ideas and themes relating to disability. Unmute Dance Theatre, founded in 2013, is a company of artists with mixed abilities/disabilities using physical theatre, …

Thando Mangcu is a South African performer, director and writer. She will be an artist in residence at Théâtre du Grütli in Geneva from 29 August to 27 November 2022, during which time she looks forward to working and being part of the creative community at Grütli. “This residency will be an opportunity to expand …

“The Theatre of Beauty” is a research project by Koleka Putuma, an award-winning South African theatre practitioner, writer and poet, that investigates the relationship between plant medicine and storytelling. It is a work in search of connections between ancestry, history, memory, and practices of storytelling. It is also a work in search of the tensions …

As a multidisciplinary artist whose work draws inspiration from vulnerability, femme identity, blackness and queerness, Va-Bene Elikem Fiatsi [crazinisT artisT] is interested in exploring new experiences that come with the human body in relation to strange sites, alien objects, toxic materials and unfamiliar sounds. Va-Bene will be an artist in residence at PROGR in Bern, …

Based in Bern, Switzerland, Zoë Binetti’s performance art practice weaves together the visceral poetry of bodies, objects and space. She will spend a month in Ghana from 4 April to 4 May 2022 to continue her artistic research through movement. In January 2021 Zoë  was invited to take part in the perforcraZe International Artist Residency …