Everything is shifting—and rodeo 2026 gives you new ground to stand on. Eight days of dance, theatre, performance, discourse, and parties, all made in Munich. We dig into the past, shake the present, and imagine futures for humans, animals, objects, and everything in between. Are you ready for touchdown?
8 Days
6 Languages
1 City
The Rodeo Festival
Since 2010, rodeo has been a part of Munich’s arts scene. The biennial festival offers insights into the diversity of Munich’s dance and theater scene, facilitates exchange and networking among local and international artists, provides new artistic inspiration, and explores current issues in cultural policy.
Over the years, rodeo has become a hub for local, national, and international artists in the independent scene. Since 2022, the festival has been organized by HochX and Theater und Live Art München e.V.
Ute Gröbel and Antonia Beermann serve as artistic directors. The festival is funded by the City of Munich and is a member of FestivalFriends, an association of regional festivals for the independent performing arts in Germany.
rodeo 2026: Holding Ground
The ground beneath our feet is giving way. Social foundations are crumbling, while struggles over territory, borders, and belonging are intensifying across the globe. Against this backdrop, rodeo 2026 brings together ten productions that search for new ways of locating ourselves in the world—between the human and the non-human, body and matter, past and present.
These ten works are sensory, critical, and deeply moving interventions against conditions that have become unsustainable. Dance meets sign language, acrobatics encounters performance art; documentary material intertwines with music, song, and immersive spatial installations. Performances take place in German, English, French, Turkish, Kurdish, and Polish.
The result is a polyphonic artistic landscape that invites audiences not only to observe, but to experience with their whole bodies and all their senses. It encourages active participation, touch, and the possibility of being touched in return.
A festival about art as a space of entanglement—between people, bodies, memories, and forms of life.
