In the festival's words:

In the live arts, including contemporary dance, the encounter with the audience is an essential basis of artistic work and a prerequisite for interaction and a social dialogue that is established in a common, shared space. During the past two pandemic years, this form of encounter took place only to a limited extent or not at all. With the performance series "encounters" we present in the context of ACCESS TO DANCE in October different artists* who explore the encounter with the audience in a new way at the interface to other art disciplines.

To kick things off, Hamburg-based choreographer Antje Pfundtner asks in her solo "Platz nehmen" what it is worth standing up for. In an intense mix of dance, fast-paced rhythms, language and song, Danish choreographer Mette Ingvartsen explodes the social isolation of the post-pandemic community in "The Dancing Public." The Munich artist Susanne Schütte-Steinig invites visitors in her performance experiment "Bis hierhin oder weiter? 3.1", the Munich-based artist Susanne Schütte-Steinig invites visitors to explore spatial proximity and distance. The Canadian Gerard Reyes tries to find ecstasy in and between his body and that of the audience with "The Principle of Pleasure". All four invited works transcend the boundary between audience and performers. They enable a new audience experience of direct encounter.

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