ABOUT
Company Lindh & Weingartner is a dance company based in Basel, Switzerland.
It was founded 2019 by Swedish dancer and choreographer Benjamin Lindh Medin and Swiss dancer and choreographer Rebecca Weingartner. Involving their backgrounds in contemporary dance, hip-hop, music and physical theatre, they develop a playful, performative movement language. With their work, the company reflects upon current sociopolitical topics and transforms them into a highly accessible performances for you young audience.EQUALITY! was created in 2020 in cooperation with RESO dance networks Switzerland, Choreographic Laboratory for Young Audience, in co- production with Roxy Birsfelden. Alongside ROXY Birsfelden, EQUALITY! has so far been invited to Tanzhaus Zürich, Beweggrund Festival Bern, Young Dance Zug Festival, TPR La Chaux-de-Fonds, ADN Neuchâtel, Theater Winterthur, PURPLE Festival Berlin, Zürcher Theater Spektakel, Krokus Festival Hasselt, Tanz Heilbronn! Festival, Tojo Theater Bern, Castrum Festival Yverdon-les-Bains. EQUALITY! is currently on tour.
In Rebecca Weingartner's new project for young audience SOLIDARITY! a musician and two dancers seek to overcome physical boundaries despite their diverse cultural and professional backgrounds. In order to succeed, they need active support - from each other and from the audience. They form a choir of moving bodies, a sounding, crashing, singing ensemble that makes itself heard for hidden stories. They tell stories of origin and identity, of visible and invisible differences and of the desire for togetherness.
SOLIDARITY! is the second piece after EQUALITY! as part of a triology examining the three main principles of the French Enlightment slogan "Egalité! Solidarité!* Liberté!"
*Solidarity as the gender-neutral term for the french term of brotherhood "fraternité".
Company Lindh & Weingartner's work is state subsidized by the cultural committee of Canton Basel and Baselland.
Benjamin Lindh Medin, grew up in Stockholm, Sweden in a family with dance, theater and music and gained his first experiences very young as a performer. As a child he learned hip-hop, and joined The Royal Swedish Ballet School by 10. In his teens, Benjamin went back to learning Hip-hop and Break dance. He was part of various dance crews as well as studied at The City Theater High School of Performing arts. In 2013 he completed his BA in Contemporary Dance and Education at the Norwegian College of Dance in Oslo. He then worked in various projects as a dancer and teacher in Norway and Sweden.
Since 2018 Benjamin lives and works in Basel and has since then done various works within dance and performance. Some include: A tunisian swiss collaboration at "Festivale Internationale Hammamet 2018" in Tunisia by Filippo Armati & Bahri Ben Yahmed, “Decadent Surfers” - ADN Dialect 2018, Aggregate - Alexandra Pirici, H2NY - Tabea Martin & Michael Landy, Kippunkt & Gliisch, Anders - Cie. Beweggrund,
"Il Barberia di Siviglia" - Kirill Serebrennikov and Mission Spion - Momentum Dance company
Currently, Benjamin is touring with
Lindh & Weingartner's EQUALITY! as well as FOREVER by Tabea Martin.
Rebecca Weingartner was born in Seoul, Southkorea and grew up in Basel, Switzerland. She studied contemporary dance at Tanztheaterschule Zürich and the ARTez, dance academy Arnhem in the Netherlands as well as physical theater and AHK, academy of arts in Amsterdam.
She danced among others at the dance company Theater St.Gallen, Compagnie Tabea Martin, Cie. 7273, Cie. Anna Röthlisberger. Her own choreographic works include THE BEST IS YET TO COME (2012), HOPE INSTRUCTION (2015), WIR SIND VIELE (2019) & EQUALITY! (2020), ZÄMMEHEEBE (2022), SOLIDARITY! (2022) all in coproduction with Roxy Birsfelden
Rebecca Weingartner received the culture award 2021 from the government of Canton Baselland, Switzerland. Weingartner has established an independent stage language which is expressed through intersectional dance and theater. Rebecca Weingartner's artistic language developed from her encounters with people from diverse backgrounds with whom she has worked in her artistic, educational and dance therapy projects - from children and young people to people with cognitive or psychological impairments. The awareness of structural disadvantages in the context of her previous works, as well as Rebecca Weingartner's own experience as a woman*, person of color and person affected by classism, are the core of her current artistic exploration.
