zeitSprung (Meret & Kilian), along with Reut Nahum and Manel Salas Palau, will be the free radicals at the Sommernachts Ball in Zurich. Join Jus June 22nd at Hauptbahnhof Zurich in the big hall for a night of dance from 8 PM to 2 AM.

Cie zeitSprung, led by Meret Schlegel and Kilian Haselbeck, works extensively in public spaces. They have become experts in engaging with different people through dance. At the Sommernachtsball, they will dance with the audience, creating small, magical moments together. And all of this will happen free from the constraints of traditional partner dance steps.

Jukebox dancer is part of Dance on Tour at the 19th edition of Das Tanzfest May 1-5 2024. Das Tanzfest presents a selection of thirteen professional Swiss dance groups which will tour Switzerland.

Jukebox Dancer will come to Fribourg/Bulle, Vevey, Morges and Rapperswil.

Back on the road again at the beginning of September, we will premiere our new production EN ROUTE! at the Théâtre ABC in La Chaux-de-Fonds in coproduction with ADN – Danse Neuchâtel.

EN ROUTE! Off we go in hectic times. How can we process all this when so much is happening at the same time, such as here in La Chaux-de-Fonds? How do we perceive time in everyday life? We all have our own idea of time, knowing that Einstein said something about “relative”. Who understands that? We don’t really either. So we take you on a journey through time with dance, live music, and video on stages of different places.

September 6 / 9 and 10, Théâtre ABC, La Chaux-de-Fonds.
Workshop one hour before each performance.

Concept, Choreography, and Dance: Kilian Haselbeck, Meret Schlegel, Andrea Beugger
Music: Thomas Jeker
Video: Bartek Sozanski
External Eye: Andreas Storm
Lights, technique: Alexandre Brissonnaud

Supported by: Loterie Romande, Ernst Göhner Foundation, Fondation Stanley Thomas Johnson, Elisabeth Weber Foundation, Migros Culture Percentage, Oertli Foundation, City of La Chaux-de-Fonds.
Production: zeitSprung, Simon Fleury
Coproduction: Centre de culture ABC, ADN – Danse Neuchâtel

Further performances:
10. / 11. November Helferei Zürich

July 9th Meret will premiere her new Solo called fragile as a special site specific version for the Festival Hinterhalt in Uster.

fragile is a piece about the theme of the fragility of skin, paper and body, transience and fragility. For quite some time Meret Schlegel has been preoccupied with the theme of skin: skin, envelope, demarcation. Skin, our largest organ, loses with time more and more of its elasticity. Skin becomes paper and at the same time more and more fragile and vulnerable. Both skin and paper hold traces of time, both are witnesses of transience.

With the solo fragile Meret Schlegel takes the audience on a journey through the traces of time in a site-specific version in the open air.

Yellow is coming back to Zürich 23rd and 24th of June during Festival About Us in Zürich Albisrieden.

Zebra crossings, red lights, GO! The yellow waves are coming! Crosswalk dancing with zeitSprung Kilian Haselbeck und Meret Schlegel with Stiftung FREIZEIT and Manel Salas Palau. In this polyphonic choreography of the city, we move in a free space between rules which define our rhythms: green – walk, red – stop, no turning here, park in blue zones… But how big is the freedom in these free spaces actually?

Can we find our own new rules for this urban board? “Yellow” is an ode to the liberty of movement in the city, a short disruption of our automated behaviour in an urban space. With zebra crossings as dance floors and traffic as maker, the pedestrians will do more than just passing one another. Come and discover the turbulent polonaise-like the pedestrian Stop-and-Go or the BananaLoca. But be aware, the Yellow Wave is infectious!

10 years ago at the Tanzhaus Zürich our piece Orthopädie or to be premiered. In 2015 it received the Swiss Dance Award. We have been performing it more than 60 times all around the world. Many more pieces and projects were born in the past years and we still have no intention to stop.

Thank you to all who have been supporting us all these years. It’s been a beautiful journey with a lot of sweating, almost impossible deadlines, laughs, tears, making friends all over the world and memories that will forever stay with us.

See you soon again somewhere out there!

Lots of Love from Meret and Kilian, zeitSprung

Last but not least, the dance project **Wishing Wishes** by artasfoundation and Armenian collaborators came to an end with two wonderful touching performances in Dilijan and Yerevan. Unfortunately, the resurgence of border clashes didn’t let us tour through the participants villages. We feel very privileged to have been creating and dancing with all these young teenagers, Armenian colleagues, spending time together and learning from one another.

Kilian is busy creating his solo Jukebox Dancer. A first version of Jukebox Dancer happened during the exhibition “last words from the periphery” at theOff.space curated by Rocco A. de Filippo and Olena Iegorova. The piece is now being expanded with ZÜRICH TANZT 2023 as a co-producer for the new edition. Natures infinite creativity lives within all of us. In this Solo Kilian explores all we could or dream of being.

He mutates in no time from a disco queen to a cowboy, from a mermaid to Michael Jackson, but also from an improvisation artist to a virtuos ballet dancer. It is about discovering the diversity of our being. In this Solo, Kilian is giving room to our beautiful colourful existence and lets it blossom.

In collaboration with Théâtre ABC La Chaux-de-Fonds and ADN – Danse Neuchâtel we are creating our new piece EN ROUTE!. The premiere is September 6. – 10. and will be the season’s opening at ABC for 2023. We are happy to share the stage with Andrea Beugger (dance), Christian Weber (music) and Bartek Sozanski (film).

Last July during the summer holidays we had a first residency and explored the world famous watchmaker’s town. We were inspired by its architecture, its slowed down rhythm, its clocks and presence of time and also the beauty of surroundings nature. At the beginning of January, we came back for a second residency expecting lots of snow, and therefore a totally different rhythm and perception of the town. Well, times they are a changing – no snow at all!

We will bring these explorations and our perception of the city into the theatre to let a diverse audience of all ages discover their town through dance music and our eyes.
Surprise yourself, your memory and perception of La Chaux-de-Fonds by amazing interactions between dance, music, video and the stage. Come and see your own town, come visit and discover La Chaux-de-Fonds in a different and fresh light; experience time and space in new dimensions.

Meret ist seit Ende April in einer Residenz der Casa Atelier in Bedigliora, Malcantone.

Am 9.Juli 16 Uhr Performance fragile als Abschluss der Residenz, gefolgt von einem Gespräch und einem Apéro. https://www.fcab.ch/aktuell/

Since end of April Meret is in a residency at Casa Atelier in Bedigliora, Malcantone.

On July 9, 4 pm public performance fragile as the conclusion of the residency, followed by a talk and aperitif.

1. Our new created Performance Rave “BTG – Bridging the Gap” a collaboration with Reut Nahum, Ilona Kannewurf and Nello Novela at the Landesmuseum Zürich.

We are party culture creators for all universal beings. Getting curious? Rave with us at the Landesmuseum LATE 25th November from 7 pm.

2. Another chance to see our duet “Orthopädie or to be” at Kurtheater Baden on the 27th of November at 8 pm. This piece received the Swiss Dance award in 2015.

3. performing again “Je vous suis” by Orélie Fuchs Chen A coproduction by Association dansehabile and Association astérisque, in corealisation with Laténium and ADN – Danse Neuchâtel. It will be shown at the Laténium in download ativador windows 10Neuchatel on the 5th December from 3 pm.