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.

dancehALL can be staged both in its theatrical version than in an urban one, for unconventional context.

This version can be linked to a training project supported by the Company, aimed at actively involving local schools and dance institutions. The project is designed as an expanding nucleus, aims to involve the people around it until it became a community. Students and dancers in training will have the unique opportunity to share the scene with the Company’s professionals during dancehALL. The project takes shape through workshops and creation sessions, lasting two days usually, organized in collaboration with the participating entities.