IF I DON’T DANCE IT, IT WILL HURT
MIME Centrum / Bethanien, Berlin 2018
We want to explore different ways of being together and perform the collectively land in our skins. We go through some questions, scores, states and images to trigger the power and singularity of each body. The journey from the singular to the communal opens the boundaries of what we understand as a body. How does the experience of affection and contagion between bodies dancing build up the possibility of an eventual community? How the party is an event to frame these displacements?
“But perhaps, the party after the sexual-political liberations and imaginations and the social revolutions of the 20th century is about something else. Of a factory of collective sensations. Of traffic of sweating, of possibilities of extending parts of the body in other fragments of bodies; of opening, displacing and unrolling and scheming a use of space together; of experiencing the flesh, the tissues, the skin, without repressive familiar signifier; of discovering and trying a way to move something you did not imagine; of shouting, of singing, of chanting a protest song while a reggaetón plays.... to become physical mass and rhythm; (...) The body of our party is a gigantic body of exits and entrances that pass gestures, figures, words, rhythms, technical knowledge of multiple bodies“ (”Descaretizar la fiesta”, Silvio Lang).
