Dancing politics Dancing politics begins in perfect synchronicity. Bodies moving as one, the seductive power of unified movement, the comfort of belonging, the amplified impact of coordinated action.

Then the formation fractures. Dancers claim their own rhythms and pathways. Individual expression emerges from collective harmony. The tension between connection and autonomy, structure and freedom, becomes visible in movement.

The piece makes visible what institutions obscure: systems that publicly celebrate unity whilst privately rewarding those who break the rules they impose on others. Collectives that demand conformity whilst fostering competition. Hierarchies that form within supposedly egalitarian spaces. The gap between what we say we value and what we actually reward.

What is gained and lost when we move as one? What happens when uniformity fractures? The piece neither condemns nor celebrates either state. It holds the tension: our simultaneous need for collective belonging and individual expression, for coordination and autonomy, for the comfort of moving together and the necessity of moving alone.

The choreography reveals that both states contain their opposite. Perfect synchronicity already carries the seeds of fragmentation. Individual expression still moves in relation to the collective it broke from. The dancers create and dissolve patterns simultaneously.

Hold a figure. Move it. A larger form appears, responding to your gesture. The individual contains the collective. The collective emerges from individual action. Scale shifts with attention. What seemed singular reveals itself as multiple. What seemed autonomous was always in relation.