PROJECTS
side.kicks
MAKING CONNECTIONS VISIBLE
Since 2013, side.kicks has presented works by choreographers from Tanztendenz's national and international networks at schwere reiter.
Rather than a classic guest performance programme, the project is the result of intensive, long-standing artistic exchange. Productions and artists who are already connected to Tanztendenz through institutional partnerships, previous residencies, or collaborative projects are invited to participate.
side.kicks is deliberately designed to be streamlined and flexible, enabling diversity in many forms. The aim is to preserve the visibility of diverse artistic styles, organisational forms, financing models, concerns and strategies, and to showcase these in an exemplary manner to provide inspiration. Another component of side.kicks is a series of discussions on current issues in cultural policy.
side.kicks brings international perspectives to the Munich scene and gives audiences insights into works that would otherwise rarely or never be seen in the city.
SIDE.KICKS+ 2026
Thursday, November 26 – Saturday, November 28 / schwere reiter
Local & International: Four Productions & A Dance Symposium
The Tanztendenz format side.kicks presents four choreographies at schwere reiter that explore hybrid, dissolving, and shifting images of the body. In these four highly diverse works by Alexandra Rauh + Stephanie Felber, Quindell Orton, Isabella Oberländer and Colette Sadler, the boundaries between human and non-human bodies blur. Human & animal, human & plant, human & machine, and human & digitality are the focus of these works. In conjunction with the four performances, the dance symposium “Animals, Animalities, and Non-Human Actors in Contemporary Dance” will take place as part of side.kicks+ 2026, a collaboration between Access to Dance and Tanztendenz München e.V.