Register as a volunteer at our dance festival!
Learn more about our festival on our English info page
Spend your summer holidays in a special way. For our nice little festival in the beautiful Swiss countryside of Emmental (between Berne and Thun) we are looking for hands-on, cheerful volunteers who want to help for several hours a day between 15 and 23 July. You can also volunteer just for one day.
We love spontaneity, but we want to ensure a good planning too, so please register before 5 July.
You’re in? Great! Just click the button and fill in the form.
What you get for your voluntary work
Our festival is not profit seeking, that is why we are happy about every helping hand. We appreciate your commitment as a volunteer very much. In return we offer you free entry and free meals in the canteen during your volunteering days. Additionally you can stay during the whole festival in the protection shelter site for a reduced price.
4 unforgettable festival days:
- free entry to the whole festival
- free meals in the festival canteen during the 4 volunteering days
- participate in any workshop, concert or ball outside of your working hours
- 2 festival entries for the date of your choice that you can give away
- reduced price for accommodation during the whole festival in the protection shelter site
- Vertanzt lanyard and other goodies
3 unforgettable festival days:
- free entry to the festival on your 3 volunteering days
- free meals in the festival canteen during the 3 volunteering days
- participate in any workshop, concert or ball outside of your working hours during the 3 days
- 1 festival day-pass that you can give away or use yourself
- reduced price for accommodation during the whole festival in the protection shelter site
- Vertanzt lanyard and other goodies
2 unforgettable festival days:
- free entry to the festival on your 2 volunteering days
- free meals in the festival canteen during the 2 volunteering days
- participate in any workshop, concert or ball outside of your working hours during the 2 volunteering days
- reduced price for accommodation during the whole festival in the protection shelter site
- Vertanzt lanyard and other goodies
As a volunteer for setting up and dismantling the festival facilities honour and fame will be yours and you will become a „Super hero“ with no obligation during the festival days.
Help for setting up
3 days: Monday to Wednesday 15 – 17 July
- free entry on 3 festival days
- free meals in the canteen during 3 festival days
- free meals (partly in the restaurant) during the days of setting up
- reduced price for accommodation during the whole festival in the protection shelter site
2 days: Tuesday morning and Wednesday 16 – 17 July
- free entry on 2 festival days
- free meals in the canteen during 2 festival days
- free meals (partly in the restaurant) during the days of setting up
- reduced price for accommodation during the whole festival in the protection shelter site
1 day: Wednesday 17 July
- free entry on 1 festival day
- free meals in the canteen during 1 festival day
- free meals (partly in the restaurant) during the days of setting up
- reduced price for accommodation during the whole festival in the protection shelter site
Your help will be very precious for the setting up of the tents on Tuesday from 5 pm.
Help for dismantling
We are very happy about every helping hand for dismantling the festival facilities. That is why you will benefit from generous advantages as a dismantling volunteer.
2 days: Monday and Tuesday morning 22 – 23 July
- free entry to the whole festival (4 days)
- free meals in the canteen during all 4 festival days
- free meals (partly in the restaurant) during the dismantling days
- reduced price for accommodation during the whole festival in the protection shelter site
1 day: Monday 22 July
- free entry on 2 festival days
- free meals in the canteen during 2 festival days
- free meals (partly in the restaurant) during the dismantling days
- reduced price for accommodation during the whole festival in the protection shelter site
The dismantling on Monday starts in the morning and takes until 9 pm. When finished there will be z’Nacht for everybody. 🙂
Note for ticket purchase: If you volunteer for one or two days, you can already buy tickets for the other days when you do not volunteer. Our volunteer manager Raffael will tell you everything you need to know.
Choose your volunteering work
Your working time depends on your volunteering activity (max. 4 hours a day during 2 to 4 shifts). We will coordinate the shifts with you beforehand, so that you can plan ahead the rest of your festival stay.
Are you tempted to spend a whole week at the festival and to dance 4 days without any working shifts? Are you looking forward to the magical moment when out of nowhere a tent village develops on the meadow? Then we welcome you as a „Vertanzt Super Hero“ who will set up and/or dismantle our festival facility!
Is catering and food your passion? Do you like efficient team work and also enjoy chatting when rush-hour is over? Would you like to be there when our cooks „rock“ the kitchen? Then our canteen is the right place to be!
Would you like to be the good cleaning fairy? You like to work at off-peak and short working hours, which gives you plenty of time to dance? Would you like to witness how many mindful people cause relatively little waste and dirt? Then you’ve come to the right place with the cleaning team!
Are friendliness and communication in your blood? Do you like to sit in the sun – but even a little rain doesn’t spoil your mood? Would you like to meet the many different people and laughing faces of the festival? Then the entry control is the right position for you!
Are you a multi-tasking talent that can answer even the most surprising questions confidently and preferably multilingually? Do you dare to handle the cash register? Would you like to gain a deep insight into the organisation of our festival? Then working at the festival office is just the perfect position for you.
Do you want to be our joker? Are you flexible and autonomous and ready for various smaller and bigger tasks (wiping the tent floor, caring for flower decorations, selling T-shirts, admonishing people who park the wrong way…)? Then we are happy to count on you!
Do you like music and technology? As stagehand you are the supporting person in the workshop who turns the music from CD/mobile on and off at the right time. You will be very precious for our dance teachers.
Other possibilities to support the festival
- Distributing flyers, hanging up posters: contact us at presse@vertanzt.ch and send us your address and tell us where, how and how much you want to advertise.
- We are open for your ideas and services, that you would like to propose before or during the festival. Get in touch!
- Whether it is material, money or advertisement: we are nothing without our appreciated sponsors. Become benefactor or sponsor!