Speakers

Margaret Ames, PhD, Senior Lecturer in Theatre and Performance, Department of Theatre, Film, and Television Studies, Aberystwyth University, Wales.

Remo Beuggert, actor and director of Theater HORA – Stiftung Züriwerk Kultur.

Gianni Blumer, actor an director of Theater HORA – Stiftung Züriwerk Kultur.

Sara Bocchini, Performer and Research Associate, Accademia Teatro Dimitri, Verscio.

Dave Calvert, PhD, Senior Lecturer in Theatre Studies, Huddersfield University.

Laura Cantù, Performer, Administrative Assistant and Communication Coordinator, Teatro Danzabile, Ticino.

Paola Gilardi, Journalist, Lead Editor of the „MIMOS. Swiss Theatre Yearbook“ series and Co-President of the Swiss Association for Theatre Studies (SGTK).

Nele Jahnke, Artistic Co-director Theater HORA, Zürich, and Research Associate Institute for the Performing Arts and Film, ZHdK.

Ulla Klingovsky, Prof., Dr., Professor for Adult and Continuing Education, Pädagogischen Hochschule Nordwestschweiz and specialisation in Adult Education in the Master’s Programme Educational Science at the University of Basel.

Anne Leichtfuss, Member of the project TOUCHDOWN 21, Expert for Leichte Sprache (easy language), Bonn.
(https://touchdown21.info / https://www.leichte-sprache-simultan.de/

Sarah Marinucci, PhD Student Institute for Theatre studies, University of Bern, and Research Associate Institute for the Performing Arts and Film, ZHdK.

Nina Mühlemann, Dr., Scholar in the Performance and Disability Studies, Co-organizer of the IntegrART Symposium 2018 /Migros Kulturprozent.

Georges Pfründer, Prof., Professor for Theatre Pedagogy and Art Education, Institut für Weiterbildung und Beratung der Pädagogischen Hochschule Nordwestschweiz.

Demis Quadri, Prof., Dr., Professor in Physical Theatre, Accademia Teatro Dimitri, Verscio.

Edwin Ramirez, Stand Up Comedian from Zurich and Editorial Member of the Blog of the Institut Neue Schweiz (INES) as well as Board Member of Friends of INES.

Anton Rey, Prof., Head of the Institute for the Performing Arts and Film, ZHdK.

Emanuel Rosenberg, Co-founder of the Dance Theatre Collective Progetto Brockenhaus, Artistic Director of the Teatro Danzabile in Ticino and Founder and Artistic director of the ORME Festival in Lugano.

Carrie Sandahl, Prof. Dr., Professor and Head of the “Program on Disability Arts, Culture, and Humanities”, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA.

Yvonne Schmidt, Dr., Lecturer and Head of the “DisAbility on Stage”-project, Institute for the Performing Arts and Film, ZHdK and Co-President of the Swiss Association for Theatre Studies (SGTK).

Susanne Schneider, Artistic Director of the company BewegGrund and the festival BewegGrund. Das Festival in Berne, Dancer and Expert in integrated dance.

Daniele Zanella, Performer, Teatro Danzabile, Ticino.

Teatro Danzabile is an integrated theatre/dance company, based in the Ticino. www.teatrodanzabile.ch.

Theater HORA – Stiftung Züriwerk Kulutr is a professional theatre ensemble of actors with cognitive disabilities, based in Zurich and is part of the Stiftung Züriwerk Kultur. www.hora.ch.