dancehALL is an urban techno container, where four bodies move in an obsessive ritual. Four dances, salsa, cha cha cha, jive and polka, are torn from their context and reduced to essential dynamic patterns. The steps now become raw gestures, instead of sensual: precise mechanisms in a choral choreography where contact becomes detached and energy is consumed in a mechanical dance.

Wrapped in an edgy black and white atmosphere, the performers trace clear lines, building a rigorous choreography, devoid of pathos. Their bodies move jerkily, in constant rhythmic patterns. Unnatural smiles and arms waving energetically: the sensual and various ballroom dancing is transformed into a dance “to be executed”.

What if the passion fades away? What remains when dance becomes a pure exercise in style, drained of its variability?

dancehALL is an experiment, an attempt to redefine the boundaries of dance, an invitation to reflect on body and movement in an era now dominated by mechanization and loss of humanity.

The staging of dancehALL can be accompanied by an educational project, aimed at actively involving local dance schools and institutions. The project, conceived as an expanding nucleus, aims to engage people around it, eventually forming a community. The project is realized through intensive workshops and laboratory sessions, lasting two days, organized in collaboration with the participating entities.