Support FLUX crew

Funding goals

1. Stage 1:

   12.000 CHF

   17% 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.

2. Stage 2:

   13.500 CHF

   0% funded

   This stage will enable us to strengthen and further develop UNAPOLOGETIC's production and organizational structures.
   
   We want to make the project as inclusive as possible and offer it free of charge to all participants.
   Enabling a project with these requirements involves a huge number of hours of organizational work behind the scenes. We also want to work with coaches who can support us with their expertise.

3. Stage 3:

   14.500 CHF

   0% funded

   This stage will enable us to continue the UNAPOLOGETIC project on a stable organizational basis and cover ongoing costs.
   
   FLUX crew has grown significantly in recent years, and with it our legal obligations. This stage will enable us to bring in external support for our association work, drawing on expertise in legal matters and collaborating with us on a longer-term basis.
   Due to the size of the project and the large number of participants, additional costs are incurred for the storage of stage sets and costumes.

4. Finish Stage:

   40.000 CHF

   0% funded

   UNAPOLOGETIC is a participatory, inclusive dance project for queer teenagers and young adults with and without disabilities, initiated by the dance company FLUX crew.
   
   It was realized in 2024 and 2025 in the cities of Basel, Bern, Lucerne, and Zurich. Over a period of six months, training sessions, a joint camp, and a subsequent tour were organized. UNAPOLOGETIC takes place in a queer safe space and is accompanied by three anti-discrimination coaches.
   
   The implementation of this extensive dance project requires dedicated production and artistic management. With this crowdfunding campaign, we are strengthening the structural foundations to continue UNAPOLOGETIC in the long term.

Why is UNAPOLOGETIC needed?

UNAPOLOGETIC is a participatory and inclusive dance project in which queer young people with and without disabilities can participate. Together with professional and queer artists, they create a full-length dance piece. Performing arts, which are often reserved for a “normative elite,” should be made accessible to people with different bodies.
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.

Who we are:

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Verein FLUX crew

Basel, CH

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.

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Pia Ringel

Bern, CH

Artistic co-director of FLUX crew, choreographer, dancer

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.

Sandy Albrecht

Luzern, CH

Artistic co-director of FLUX crew, choreographer, dancer

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.

Arlette Dellers

Ostermundigen, CH

Artistic co-director of FLUX crew, choreographer, dancer

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.

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