PULCINELLA:

Take a good look at my mask: don't you see that I never laugh or cry - or rather, I separate one thing from another so far that it is impossible to tell them apart?

GIANDOMECINO:

Does the world make you laugh or cry?

Agamben, Pulcinella: Or Entertainment for Children

FREE BODIES  is a trance-like journey that begins with rebellious, trickster-like gestures and a theatre of memory of individual bodies. The dance circle becomes a space for moving emotions and a celebration of the power of bodies and the power over bodies. The hybrid stage form opens up to the grotesque, and tragedy and comedy merge. By indulging in a whirlwind of social dances, bodies are transformed in a communal and healing experience.

To the sound of live percussion music played, FREE BODIES thunder, vibrate and resonate. Immersed in the intensity of the choreography they surrender to the space, expand the boundaries of their own skin, and increase their scale.

FREE BODIES activate the political power of physical mobilisation flowing from loins and drops of sweat. To the rhythm of trance percussion, we invoke a dance that haunts and transforms our bodies.

 Our individual demonic shadow comes together in a collective gathering through collective movement frightens us.

We are in the openness of experience, in stirring and desire, in the sudden change of facial expression and in the inflection of language and voice. Laughter and crying come to resemble each other. Ultimately, we choose laughter, an extravagant, irrational and unrestrained force that, as Nietzsche wrote „plays with all that was hitherto called holy, good, untouchable, divine."