Experimental Jam
In collaboration with Experimental Munich
August 14, 2026
13.00 H
Muffathalle
Registration for participants:
experimental.jam.munich@gmail.com
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https://forms.gle/TMWshjuY9ZhVKSLD9
Spectators can pick up their tickets on site starting at 12:30 H
Everyone pays what they can. Donations via:
https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=6HAL5642FPX26
Barriere-free
The Experimental Jam is an open format for interdisciplinary improvisation that brings together dance, music, text, and visual art in a spontaneous live composition. The goal is to facilitate encounters and creative collaboration between professional and non-professional artists and to explore new forms of collaborative creation.
The event begins with an introduction to improvisational scores and a guided warm-up. From this, a two-hour, continuous performance unfolds, in which movement, sound, language, and visual elements enter into dialogue with one another in real time. The resulting composition does not follow a predetermined outcome but emerges from the group’s dynamics and the impulses of the space.
The event is open to the public and invites the audience to directly experience the artistic creation process. In doing so, the boundaries between performers and spectators are deliberately questioned, and new forms of participation are explored. The focus is on trust in the creative process, openness to unexpected encounters, and productive engagement with the unknown.
The Experimental Jam was initiated in 2024 by Salomé Rodrigues in Munich and has since been hosted at various art and cultural venues, including Kunstbau Lenbachhaus, Fat Cat, and Kunstlabor. The project has been supported by Tanzquelle, HochX, and Turtle Magazine, among others.
Musicians and visual artists are asked to bring their own equipment or art supplies.
Timetable:
12:30 H – Doors Open
13:00 H – Introduction to Proposals and Scores
13:30 H – Performance Starts
16:00 H – Finding an End
The public can enter and leave the performance as they wish. The doors will be open.
Salomé Rodrigues (b. 1996, Porto) is a performer, choreographer, and curator who has lived in Munich since 2024. She works at the intersection of dance, theater, voice, and performance art, and has realized projects in Portugal and Germany, where she has collaborated with various choreographers, such as Mafalda Deville, and visual artists, such as the Rooftoptiger Collective. In 2024, she founded the Experimental Munich platform for interdisciplinary improvisational performance. Since 2025, she has been a member of the Turtle Magazine Collective, where she develops and curates works that combine performance, sound, visual art, and literature.
Team: Warm-Up and Facilitation
Charlotte Kahler (1989) is a choreographer, dancer, dance therapist, and abstract painter. Born in Munich and raised between Germany and the USA, she is interested in cross-cultural contact and interdisciplinary exchange between artists. Her work in dance therapy has shifted her aesthetics to favor authentic expression and practicing acceptance. A recurring theme throughout all her works is the subject of „space“ as an integral part of the art making process. A lifelong student, she is currently training Kung Fu and expanding her spiritual practice further through Tai Chi and intuitive moving meditations.
Hermes Corp (a.k.a. Fotis Tsiroukis) is an interdisciplinary nomad and explorer of the cultural forefront. Life led Hermes to cross between heterogenous worlds; from local scenes, to working in decentralized organizations. Early on, Hermes explored the modality of sound; music performance, composition, digital generation and auditory research, while more recently, Hermes has turned to textual media. This includes digital poetry, speculative fiction and a Doctoral Dissertation in Philosophy of Science and Technology. Nowadays, Hermes mixes cross-form performance, improvisation and collective emergence, aiming at the transfiguration of experience.
With support from the Muffathalle.