Show “Ballar el barri”: Collective Danceoke

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“Ballar el barri”: Collective danceoke

Laura Alcala Freudenthal / LaSúbita

Catalonia

Dance

Choreographer Laura Alcala Freudenthal delights in straightforwardly playing with all kinds of cultural references, creating a dialogue between memories, tributes and stage events that are as diverse as they are surprising. 

The “Ballar el barri” project includes four events at the Estació del Nord Park: Uns Matins, Exposició, Collective Danceoke and Diskoreoke. At the heart of all four lies the idea of copycat dancing or ‘danceoke’, a concept that challenges both the generations that grew up copying the moves in MTV video clips in the living room and those who are essentially doing just the same with Tiktoks. 

So how about it - ready to jump up and get dancing? Danceoke works rather like karaoke, but instead of copying songs, you copy dances. In this danceoke, the choreographer invites you to copy the dances that some of the locals, users of the Parc Sandaru Community Centre, have devised for the occasion.