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HochX organized a double festival of the independent scene in Munich from 7 – 15.10.2022: Freischwimmen meets Rodeo. The festival is organized by Theater und Live Art München e.V., with Antonia Beermann and Ute Gröbel as artistic directors.

The Rodeo Festival has been the most important platform for the independent performing arts in Munich since 2010. It provides insights into the diversity of Munich’s dance and theater scene, serves to network artists locally and nationally and provides new artistic impetus.

The Freischwimmen-Festival is the biennial festival of the Freischwimmen network; an international exchange, residency and production platform for young groups and artists, in which eight independent production houses from German-speaking countries are organized: brut Vienna, FFT Düsseldorf, Gessnerallee Zurich, Schwankhalle Bremen, Sophiensæle Berlin, Theater Rampe Stuttgart, LOFFT – DAS THEATER Leipzig and HochX Munich.

The first festival with a FREISCHWIMMEN connection took place from 29.11.-8.12.2019 at Sophiensæle, which combined the FREISCHWIMMEN promotion of young talent with its feminist program work. With the inclusion of further international guest performances and theorists, the focus was on strategic knowledge exchange and concrete and solidary possibilities for action.

The festival Freischwimmerinnen – The future is female at Sophiensæle was funded by the Senate Department for Culture and Europe – Promotion of festivals relevant to urban policy 2018/19 and the Capital Cultural Fund.