Joy (un acte de résistance)

In a present marked by violence, inequality and multiple forms of oppression, joy ceases to be a simple emotion and becomes an ACT OF RESISTANCE. A way of supporting life when everything seems to be heading toward collapse. This motivation gave rise to JOY, LABotilar’s new creation: a contemporary dance piece combined with the emotional and symbolic power of flamenco. That—which was born of rupture, hybridity and resistance—emerges here as an embodied memory.

Capable of transforming wounds into rhythm, pain into intensity and fragility into celebration. The work places two bodies on a stage of tensions, rules and control structures, where play becomes a metaphor for existence. In this universe, the DJ appears as an almost divine presence who, through sound and light, alters the atmosphere of the stage and modulates the delicate balance between order, chaos and freedom. It is precisely in this friction that Joy resides: a space where falling and impulse coexist. Where joy does not appear as a denial of injury, but as the ability to move through it and transform it into a VITAL force.

Text by Agnès López-Río Dancers and choreographers Angel Martinez Hernandez, Vito Giotta Musician Eva Tamisier