They are more afraid of you than you of them.

We live alongside animals: we fear them, care for them, eat them, hunt them and revere them. Yet the ground on which we stand is thin. We need animals and yet we abuse them – not least to deny other people their humanity: ‘You monkey, you snake, you dog.’Making of an Animal explores and blurs these uncomfortable boundaries of animalisation, questions the consequences of equating humans with animals, and at the same time reflects on our deeper human-animal relationships.

In Quindell Orton’s performance, three performers navigate this tension and lay it bare by using movement, video and live sound dubbing to allow the audience to experience their bodies as floating, liminal forms between human and animal.

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.