IOTPD
International Organization for the Transition of Professional Dancers
Associates
Switzerland
Transition-Center SSUDK
The Transition-Center SSUDK is empowers performing artists to develop their full potential and lead self-determined lives, regardless of their background and social environment.
Dancers, in particular, are highly specialised experts in their field, and their outstanding skills need to be put to good use after their stage careers in order to reintegrate them into society.
The Transition-Center SSUDK offers counselling, one-to-one coaching, workshops, seminars and lectures in dance companies and training centres. Grants are awarded annually for retraining programmes and living expenses, and there are networking opportunities with
former fellows.
The retraining foundation for stage artists was founded in 1993 by the Swiss Stage Artists' Association trade union (SBKV) and since 2013 it has been operating under the name Swiss Foundation for the Retraining of Performing Artists SSUDK (Schweizerische Stiftung für die Umschulung von darstellenden Künstler:innen). In 2016, the Transition-Center SSUDK was established to support and advise performing artists, in particular dancers, before, during and after their careers on stage in German-speaking Switzerland, Ticino and Liechtenstein.