Dancing politics explores the paradoxical beauty and chaos that emerges when bodies move between collective harmony and individual expression. Beginning in perfect synchronicity, the dancers initially embody the seductive power of unified movement: the surrender of self to something larger, the comfort of belonging, the amplified impact of coordinated action.

As the piece progresses, this uniformity fractures. Dancers break from formation, claiming their own rhythms and pathways. A visual meditation on how individualism inevitably emerges from even the most cohesive collectives. This transition interrogates the inherent tension in all human systems: our simultaneous yearning for connection and autonomy, for structure and freedom.

The work offers a critique of political, religious, and social institutions that leverage collective identity whilst harbouring internal contradictions. These systems publicly celebrate unity and shared purpose whilst privately fostering competition, opportunism, and exception-making amongst their participants. The dancers' bodies make visible the dissonance of institutions that outwardly demand conformity yet internally reward those who subvert the very rules they impose on others.

In its movement from uniformity to multiplicity, Dancing politics asks: What is gained and lost when we move as one? What hierarchies form within supposedly egalitarian spaces? Can we recognise the irreverence at the heart of systems that preach cohesion whilst practising favouritism? The piece neither condemns nor celebrates either state. Instead, it invites contemplation of this perpetual, unresolvable tension that defines our social existence. Some movements, when sustained, grow beyond their original form, suggesting that persistence itself can transform the nature of what we are.