Dance is not for us 12th of January 2024
- The title of our season is “Vertigine”. What is vertiginous to you?
I guess it’s exactly what I feel since four years .. the World seems to be on a crazy journey. I don’t say this in a negative way, I like change, yet it seems this whirling will not come to rest soon and it has been difficult in many ways, especially this last year. I try to keep an open heart and mind without falling in fear and insecurity, this could be dangerous. Dance and culture are our daily practice to keep going on and not lose hope of a peaceful and just World.
- Why “Dance is not for us”? Which kind of dance?
For me it’s a question of freedom, of ones own decisions. Are we able to be, to exist, to live, to dance? Dance is an entrance to the big questions we face each day. How to be together, in movement and in silence, in opposition and harmony. To acknowledge and respect the existence of other forms of dance, other perspectives of living, without going into elimination, supremacy, cruelty and violence.
- What power does dance have to change imaginaries and affect the world?
I don’t have my teenage dreams of changing the World into a better place anymore, however I still have a strong belief that dance could touch individuals and this is the most important thing. The intimate moments we spend in a dance performance, or even in a party, could be a great inspiration for us, and could possibly mean the whole World.