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Dance, like any art form, is shaped by the complexities of the world around us, and its history reflects its upheavals. The ways in which it is practiced, learned, and documented also bear witness to this. The struggles of our societies help to challenge the social frameworks that organize the ways we live together. They reveal the inequalities, power dynamics, and discriminations that persist, including within the field of choreography. The discipline is also shaped by constraints and legacies that can perpetuate these issues, but it also opens a space where these can be revealed, questioned, and diffused. Far from aestheticizing turmoil or merely representing it, the approaches we propose here make it the backbone from which stem a myriad of subjectivities, capacities for action, and formal experiments. 

On stage, these inquiries take shape in a wide variety of gestures, narratives, presences, and styles of composition. From collective narratives (Olivia Grandville, Linda Hayford) to intimate experiences (Boris Charmatz with his two solos), from the explosion of physical exertion to restrained virtuosity, from self-narrative (Steven Cohen, Michael Turinsky, Marah Haj Hussein, and Nu Garabli) to abstraction, the disquiet within them etches out a shared space which vibrates with our common interrogations. A space which listens to what moving bodies are revealing: what they carry, what they displace and overcome.