A fictional future in which the purpose and necessity of the human body are called into question serves as the starting point for Learning from the Future. In this performance, the concept of a futuristic “afterlife” is used as a poetic device to speculate on an unimaginable reality that transcends the boundaries of the body: An environment in which ever-faster streams of information and encoded data could replace physical reality itself and determine how bodies move. The female cyborg “Body A” inhabits this environment—a futuristic body, controlled by external impulses, that recalls the power of the primitive body while hovering on the threshold of its dissolution.

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.