I remember as a child going to the corso during carnival and seeing the murga for the first time. That memory has stayed with me like a precious treasure. Encountering the carnival of Buenos Aires left such a deep impression on me that I dreamt countless times of being part of the comparsa.

I’m not sure how, but this persistent desire eventually led me to enroll in ballet classes. My aspirations for feathers and glitter were not fulfilled there, but I learned the codes of dance and came closer to the theater. Years went by, and the murga, cumbia, carnival, celebration, family dances, and festive dances continued to feed my imagination and choreographic work.

For Irresistible Revolution, I envision a group of twelve performers letting themselves be carried away into a tangle of dances that are as disharmonious as they are exuberant. A choreographic ode to the act of being together based on what we are and what we can be.

Inspired by the unbridled freedom of any gathering that allows for unpredictable drift, these twelve bodies will follow various irresistible impulses, untamable, rebellious movements to explore new ways of forming connections. Festive and jubilant dances will form the fertile ground for a utopia where collective excess and joy sketch the contours of another possible world.

The utopian direction of these dances resonates with adrienne maree brown’s concept of « Pleasure Activism», which considers pleasure as a field of exploration and resistance. It describes « irresistible revolution» as a space where collective joy and bodies come together to unleash new possibilities of social resonance.

As Carla Bergman and Nick Montgomery suggest in Joyful Militancy, immersion in pleasure and collective transgression is not merely a celebration of the body but a joyful and radical political act. This joyous delirium, as described by brown, Bergman, and Montgomery, leads us to a reconfiguration of relationships between pleasure, rebellion, and collectivity, where each wave of sensation opens up new ways of being together.