Release the body. Leave the skin. Dance allows us to release what hurts, shape the invisible and transform emotion into motion. It is a rite where body, mind and emotion merge into the same pulse. Loop Festival in its XIII edition reaffirms its commitment to social transformation through art, with the resilience As a central axis. This year, The festival approaches areas affected by the Dana, supporting communities and companies impacted. With a clear commitment to sustainability, Citizen inclusion and participation, Loops promotes a living art, accessible and committed, in natural environments and spaces linked to the garden, With dance proposals, living arts and multidisciplinary languages that drive a more fair and conscious society.
This is the story of a dance.
A dance that has been haunting me.
A hidden dance, resisting totalitarianism and the values of a not-so-distant past. A dance that my grandmother danced.
and her friends.
They danced in the patios and on the threshing floors.
until it disappeared.
A dance that ignited a desire.
a bonfire. What's left of this dance?
How did we get here?
Between the performative conference and the documentary dance Let's go back to the dance investigates the domination exercised over women's bodies during the fascist dictatorship through dance and gymnastics. It is about reconstructing a new story from the body, the file, memory and intimacy.
