AFA goes to: choreomania

Since 2019, students in the Bachelor’s program at P.A.R.T.S. graduate with a piece created in partnership with a guest artist. For the Generation XIV graduating class, Mette Ingvartsen – who herself studied at P.A.R.T.S. twenty years ago – is taking up the challenge of working with the 40 students in the program, on condition that she can roll out the process over the full three-year course.
Together they explore the medieval marvel of dancing epidemics that swept across this part of Europe alongside waves of plague, floods, and famine. These “choreomanias” show a striking response from the most vulnerable or those most affected by crisis—dancing with boisterousness and passion, where joy and despair create a peculiar mix of heightened emotion. The explanation for these massive outbursts of dancing remains unknown to this day: a symptom of a deadly disease, poisoning or demonic possession, a cure or an antidote to ward off evil… 

meeting @ Globearoma -> 20:00