MovingTowardsZero

Martin Schick

Queering the Circle

To mark its 30th anniversary, Tanzhaus Zürich is hosting the MovingTowardsZero festival (26–28 June 2026): a utopian space where art, activism and community come together. Queering the Circle is part of MovingTowardsZero.

Circular dances are part of most cultural traditions; still more or less practised today, they can certainly evoke aversion, feelings of appropriation or an idea of a reactionary practice – yet they embody at the same time the collective power of people, whether for celebration or as forms of rebellion and resistance. What would circle dancing look like if it were freed from nationalism and fixed cultural identities and instead pursued an internationalist, creole and queer approach?

This training session is based on the exchange and development of repetitive steps, patterns and principles. Within this framework, a maximum of personal freedom, improvisation and free interpretation is encouraged.

Martin Schick

Martin Schick (aka TINA) is an independent cultural practitioner who has made it a principle of his artistic work to continually explore new contexts and to build them up, either individually or collectively. Having originally come from the worlds of dance and performance, since 2018 his work has focused on cultural management, cultural policy, activism and critical engagement. Their commitment is primarily directed towards community movements, cooperative or communal structures, and institutional transformation projects – in other words, where art is not confined within a frame, but rather expands or even bursts the bubble and the framework. At Tanzhaus, Martin Schick has been running the Wild Card training programme for many years within a professional training context, open to everyone.