SAPA Foundation, Swiss Archive of the Performing Arts
| SAPA Foundation, Swiss Archive of the Performing Arts
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| Visitor address | Schanzenstrasse 15, Bern , Switzerland 4, Av. Villamont, Lausanne , Switzerland Limmatstrasse 265, Zurich , Switzerland |
| founding | 2017 |
| ISIL | CH-001439-9 |
| Organizational form | private foundation |
| Website | http://www.sapa.swiss |
The SAPA Foundation, Swiss Archive of the Performing Arts , preserves and mediates the Swiss cultural heritage in the field of the performing arts and emerged in 2017 from the merger of the Swiss Dance Archive with the Swiss Theater Collection.
tasks
The SAPA Foundation collects documents and objects on the performing arts in Switzerland and makes them available to all interested parties. In accordance with its mandate, SAPA preserves the traces of these fleeting and diverse arts and transmits them to future generations. Their holdings and collections can be found at the three locations Bern, Lausanne and Zurich; they include the areas of archive, documentation and media library. The focus of the collection is on Helvetica on dance and theater, consisting of paper documents, photographs, audiovisual documents and objects. The most important holdings include those on Adolphe Appia , Maurice Béjart , Oskar Eberle and Sigurd Leeder . Scientific research and cultural mediation are an integral part of SAPA's activities.
The foundation is a non-profit organization and does not seek any profit.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b SAPA Foundation, Swiss Archive of the Performing Arts , Commercial Register of the Canton of Bern, accessed on April 21, 2018.
- ↑ Dance Archive. Retrieved February 18, 2020 .
- ↑ SAPA Foundation: About us. Retrieved on February 20, 2020 (German).