Interview mit Tina Mantel und Salome Schneebeli
(2022)

Tina Mantel: It is empty spaces or gaps in the dance landscape that have always inspired me to initiate and realize projects. I have been working as a freelance choreographer, dancer and dance teacher since the 1980s. From 1998-2010 I also taught dance at the Zurich University of the Arts. I currently run the group "manntanzt", the national Tanzmehr Bühne mit*ein*ander*es dance festival and the Slow Dance Motion project. www.tinamanteltanz.ch www.slowdancemotion.ch www.tanzmehr.ch Salome Schneebeli's works move in the space between or in the interplay of different media and are predominantly characterized by an installative character. She pursues a collective working method in which all members of the respective project/work participate equally in conception, realization and performance. She regularly works with guests in various constellations on her idiosyncratic, humorous, poetic and surrealistic projects. With each work, a new relationship is found between the audience and the performance space, which originally structures the encounter with the respective themes. the respective themes.