The STANDPUNKT.e series – ‘welcome to my world’ has been organised by Tanztendenz München e.V. since 2009. Conceived by choreographer Micha Purucker, the format invites a choreographer to work at schwere reiter for a week and to organise two public evenings. There, the artists provide insight into their artistic backgrounds and sources of inspiration and shed light on the objects, people and thoughts that are central to their work.

The idea was to develop a format that takes into account choreographic authorship, biographical content and the different mode of communication of dance by ‘talking’ about the corresponding works in a different way. By bringing together and staging interests, preferences, the vectors of a work, a method, etc. in a public situation – by those involved. Choreographers are not actually understood as authors with an agenda. However, they all have a personal ‘trajectory’ that is very difficult – if not impossible – to recognise in individual productions. STANDPUNKT.e is an attempt to reveal this ‘trajectory’ using coordinates determined by the invited artists themselves.

The Tanztendenz München archive contains a wealth of material relating to the series, including photographs, reviews, interviews, posters, postcards and programmes. One example is the first programme from 2009, published to mark Jeremy Wade's guest performance.