CONNECT – AMBASSADORS
Career Development for performing artists
Transition-Center SSUDK (TC-SSUDK)
CHANGE – represent the needs of your fellow dancers and make a contribution to positive change.
ORGANIZE – actively participate, design, and organize events and programs in collaboration with TC-SSUDK and encourage other dancers to get involved with TC-SSUDK programs.
NETWORK – TC-SSUDK Ambassadors are committed to the work of the TC-SSUDK and how the needs of dancers are met, giving them the opportunity to expand their network.
NOTABLE IMPACT – the commitment of TC-Ambassadors has a positive impact on the awareness, efforts, and support of the TC-SSUDK and raises interest in the work of the TC-SSUDK.
EMPOWERMENT – TC-SSUDK Ambassadors use their time and energy for a higher purpose.
CONTRIBUTION – TC-SSUDK Ambassadors support their colleagues in the challenging time before, during and after their professional transition through discussions, personal meetings, knowledge transfer and the exchange of experiences.
TALENT – as TC-SSUDK Ambassador you will have the opportunity to expand and strengthen your leadership, communication and organizational skills.
As a TC-SSUDK Ambassador you can help sow the seeds for a more open communication about dancers’ careers beyond dance, creating a more open culture for the future across the industry.
Every two to three years the TC-SSUDK recruits a team of highly motivated, well-connected and helpful CONNECT-Ambassadors, to help increase overall engagement for professional dancers in German-speaking Switzerland, Ticino and Liechtenstein. This diverse working group provides insight into the specific needs of dancers at TC-SSUDK partner organizations and helps design dancer-focused programs to ensure the organization continues to provide the most relevant and useful support. Our aim is also to promote and develop a positive culture of career development and transition in the Swiss dance sector.
TC-SSUDK Ambassadors are given the opportunity to expand and strengthen their leadership, communication and organizational skills, to develop themselves and to expand their network.
As an organization committed to equality, diversity and inclusion, SSUDK actively encourages applications from dancers at all stages of their career, regardless of their background, culture and life experience.
Would you like to make an important contribution as CONNECT-SSUDK-AMBASSADOR?
Then fill out the registration form.
We look forward to hearing from you!
Daniel Mulligan born in Great Britain studied at the Royal Ballet School in London. He danced at Zurich Opera House for almost 15 years and ended his rich career in 2024. Daniel has prepared well for his time after his dance career. In 2022 he completed the Professional Dancers’ Postgraduate Teaching Certificate at the Royal Academy of Dance. His transition was financially supported by the SSUDK. Daniel currently teaches in schools and companies and would also like to direct pieces for various choreographers he has worked with. He is also open to other projects and is happy to try new things that take him a little out of his comfort zone.
As a CONNECT SSUDK Ambassador, he sees himself as a communicator and facilitator. Daniel wants to support the growth of SSUDK and encourage more communication between dancers and companies across Switzerland.
Carina Neumer, born in Munich in 1992, is a cultural manager and professionally trained ballet dancer. She has danced in various productions and theaters in Germany and Switzerland since 2012 and founded her own dance company DOXS in her adopted home of Schaffhausen in 2019. In 2021, she completed a master’s degree in cultural management, made possible by the SSUDK retraining foundation, and worked in the cultural department of the city of Schaffhausen from 2019 to 2022. In 2023, she launched the Schaffhauser Kulturtage festival as project manager and took over the co-management of the Phönix Theater Steckborn. Carina is also involved in cultural policy as a board member of the Contempo and tanzinwinterthur development associations, and is a dance expert in the canton of Thurgau, a project board member of the Albert Koechlin Foundation and an ambassador for the Interpretenstiftung for the #seinodernichtsein social security project.
Based in Berlin, Katja Vaghi is a Swiss-Italian dancer, choreographer, somatics teacher and researcher, with a background in literature and linguistic (MA Zurich University), and dance Studies (PhD in Dance Studies, University of Roehampton, London). She trained in ballet and modern dance at Ballet Arts (NYC). Formerly a lecturer at the University of Northampton (UK), and at DIE ETAGE, school for the performing and visual arts, in Berlin (DE), she is now guest lecturer at the Rambert School for Ballet and Contemporary Dance (UK), at the architecture department of the University of Applied Sciences in Coburg (DE), where she teaches somatic approach to space for architects, and in serval dance education in Berlin. Katja is education and communication manager for the continuing education in AI for Creative Practices, a collaboration between the Mathematical Department of the University of Bern and the Zurich University of the Arts.