5Rhythms-Festival 2026
tenderness
Thursday, July 30st — Sunday, August 2st
Chris Camp (BE)
Verena Sacher-Graiff (AT)
Willemijn de Dreu (NL)
5Rhythms charity event for the House of Hope Nepal e.V.
Since 2014, the participants and we as organisers have been supporting the aid project for children in Kathmandu with the proceeds. Last year, we were able to contribute donations totalling €6,000.00 for the important work of the Haus der Hoffnung Nepal e.V. association. In the meantime, a number of ‘godmothers’ and ‘godfathers’ have also been found among the participants, who have taken on a special child, supported it and expressed their solidarity with it.
Tenderness — the quiet power in dance
We live in uncertain times: war in Europe, deepening social divisions, right-wing positions gaining influence. Relationships – both political and private – are becoming more fragile and unreliable. Amidst these dynamics, harshness and strength often seem to be the obvious response.
But this is precisely why we now need an antidote: ‘tenderness.’
Tenderness is not a retreat from reality. It is a conscious practice of countering the erosion of trust: presence instead of numbness, relationship instead of isolation, perception instead of reaction.
At the festival, which over the years has taken on an intensive workshop character at the request of many participants, we want to make tenderness directly experienceable as an attitude. We want to learn not to cover up uncertainty, but to bear it together. Tenderness becomes a form of stability.
What happens when we slow down in dance, perceive more finely, listen to the body and enter into mindful contact with ourselves and others?
Tenderness opens up a space of experience in which presence, connection and vitality take centre stage. It means not forcing movements, but allowing them to arise – from perception, trust and resonance.
Tenderness is not a grand statement, nor is it a loud impulse. Tenderness means countering loudness and polarisation with subtlety, responsibility and compassion.
Tenderness is an invitation to be courageously soft – and to find new strength in precisely that.
The festival invites you to anchor these qualities in your body – as a dance practice and as a resource for weathering crises together and transforming them, rather than hardening them.
The festival is aimed at dancers of all experience levels who want to deepen their perception, expand their means of expression and discover new approaches to themselves and others.
5Rhythms-Festival 2014–2025
The 5Rhythms Festival is more than just an event — it is a journey to yourself. Here, people from all over the world come together to dance and grow in an atmosphere of acceptance and joy. Every step on the dance floor is an invitation to unleash your creativity and strengthen your connection to others. Let the music carry you and discover the transformative power of dance. Together we will create memories that will last a lifetime. Be part of this unique experience and experience how the rhythm touches your heart.
About the Festival
Situated in the countryside, on the edge of the Alb, in a quiet and beautiful location, space is created for people to come together and dance.
In Ruppertshofen, approx. 15 km from Schwäbisch Gmünd, we can once again dance through our inner spaces as a tribe and meet ourselves and others in the process.
With the guidance of experienced 5Rhythms teachers, we will open ourselves up to follow the rhythms and, in doing so, we will experience and feel ourselves again and again and revive the positive qualities we sometimes thought we had lost.
We start on Thursday with dinner at 6.00 pm. You can check in, pitch your tent, move into your room etc. from 3.30 pm.
The first wave starts on Thursday evening at 7.30 pm.
On Friday and Saturday there will be 3 waves each lasting approx. two and a quarter to two and a half hours.
Admission starts approx. 30 minutes before the start times listed below, when you should be in the hall.
Morning wave 10.00 a.m.
Midday wave 3.00 p.m.
Evening wave 19.30
On Sunday the festival ends after a longer morning session and lunch at around 2.00 pm.
In between, the initiator of the aid project Mrs. Ellen Dietrich and possibly a few of her protégés will present their work in person.
more information about the aid project Haus der Hoffnung Nepal e.V.
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FESTIVAL 2026 30 July — 2 August This year’s festival team has been complete since mid-January, and we will soon be sending out a newsletter to let you know what’s happening next and when you can register. Please be patient a little longer and join us in looking…