this could be us

this could be us is a dance piece for 6 dancers from Italy and Finland, 6 rats in cute outfits, a flamboyant skeleton and more. It’s the rehearsal of a dance company. It is a third act of a non-ballet, the suite: a space of radical possibility, the same that was in the performances we created in the living room for the audience of our parents.

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this could be them, finding out that in the theater I am a cat, playing a dancer, inside of a Barbie house. We connect to our many bodies. We take the space to rehearse: we’re rehearsing the ability to be whatever/whoever we want. This could also be Giselle not dying, because her love for dance will never betray her. Or she could be rehearsing being someone else: maybe she was never Giselle. This could be a box of childhood memories, where things come from child-like joy, from the thrill of performing.

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​this could be me, making performances for an audience of 6 years old girls who see themselves on big stages. What is the future of dance in turbo-capitalism? The world is burning and there is not much I can do about it. What I can do is go back to the craft I know: dancing, with friends, softening a space to meet us at work – from us, to you.