2026
Support FLUX crew
To strengthen queer projects such as UNAPOLOGETIC
Project Overview
UNAPOLOGETIC is an inclusive, recurring dance project for queer young people with and without disabilities, which takes place simultaneously in Basel, Bern, Lucerne, and Zurich. Together, they develop a full-length dance piece full of resistance and queer joy. It is a safer space for them to express themselves artistically and make new social contacts. The project is free of charge for participants The project has been running since 2024.
Funding goals
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Stage 1:
12.000 CHF
100% funded
This stage enables us to continue the association and the UNAPOLOGETIC project.
UNAPOLOGETIC is a large project that reaches many people. That is why it needs an association with stable structures in the background.
This stage helps us to continue to enable these structures. -
Stage 2:
13.500 CHF
100% funded
This stage covers the running costs of the storage space.
Due to the size of the project and the large number of participants,
additional costs are incurred for the storage of costumes. -
Stage 3:
14.500 CHF
100% funded
This stage covers the association's ongoing administrative costs.
In order to carry out projects on a regular basis, the association needs to be organized throughout the year.
This incurs additional ongoing costs, such as website rental, mail server, account, postal mailings, etc.
The association's annual budget is calculated based on the following assumptions: -
Stage 4:
25.000 CHF
57% funded
This stage will enable us to strengthen and further develop the production and
organizational structures of UNAPOLOGETIC.
We want to make the project as inclusive as possible and offer it free of charge to all
participants.
To make a project with these requirements possible, it takes an extremely
large number of hours of organizational work behind the scenes. We also want to
work with coaches who can support us with their expertise.
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Finish Stage:
40.000 CHF
0% funded
By reaching this milestone, we can continue the UNAPOLOGETIC project on
a stable organizational basis.
FLUX crew has grown significantly in recent years, and with it, our
legal obligations. With this milestone, we want to enable us to
bring in external support for our association work,
who have expertise in legal matters and can work with us on a longer-term basis.
The project is free of charge for participants.
With UNAPOLOGETIC, we are creating a platform for queer young people to exchange ideas, build queer contacts, be creative, and express themselves through dance. Over 60 people have already participated in UNAPOLOGETIC and found new friends, relationships, and peer groups.
Why this is important:
Despite increased queer representation in society, which unfortunately is sometimes used by corporations merely for the purposes of rainbow or pinkwashing, queer people continue to experience severe structural, institutional, and individual discrimination.
Queer young people in particular, who cannot and do not want to identify with hetero- and cisnormative forms, need contributions, places, and events with queer, authentic content in order to explore their identity safely and confidently. With UNAPOLOGETIC, we want to create such places.
FLUX crew creates socially critical pieces from and for the community with the aim of questioning existing values in the mainstream art scene and cultural politics and finding alternative/new paths. The company operates in the artistic and sociocultural spheres. It advocates for fair working conditions and the participation of marginalized artists and seeks ways to make rehearsal processes and performances as non-discriminatory as possible.
FLUX crew combines art, inclusion, and community.
In 2015, I founded the dance company FLUX crew with three other people and have been acting as artistic co-director ever since.
Art can show us what is possible. It can create small (momentary) worlds that allow us to believe (again) in greater things, to resist, to experience community, and to celebrate queer perspectives.
I'm part of the FLUX crew company, where I work as co-director, dancer, choreographer, and production manager. In addition to my own productions, I dance and choreograph in national and international dance productions. I also share my knowledge and passionate dedication to dance with young people in amateur dance productions and at the “tanzerei” dance school in Kriens, where I teach contemporary dance at beginner to advanced levels.
As a dancer and choreographer, I am involved in dance productions and also work as a production manager. In 2015, I co-founded the dance company “FLUX crew” and have been its artistic co-director ever since. I have been a member of the Merge Dance Collective since 2020.
From 2017 to 2021, I was a member of the dance/theater specialist group at the GGG Kulturkick youth culture foundation. Since 2022, I have been a member of the expert commission for theater in children's and youth culture in the city of Bern. From 2018, I was part of the program team for the lila. queer festival for eight years.