What is the role of a dance festival today? How does the art of dance connect with our times? How does it engage with the community? In what ways can dance provide us with new means of thinking, expressing ourselves, imagining, dreaming in a time of anxiety and darkness?

At the core of the 32nd Festival lies dance as an expression of human instability, uncertainty, endings and beginnings. Bodies trying to maintain balance, bodies that fall, bodies that invent new languages, that don’t fit into their clothes, that resist stereotypes, bodies that continuously try to adapt, that are called upon to become stronger, more capable, more resilient, bodies that, no matter how much they’ve been hurt before, have never stopped fighting their battles.

In this increasingly unstable world, art emerges as a pre-eminent space of transformation — almost a form of magic. Just as magic creates worlds beyond the visible and activates the imaginary, so art attempts to open rifts in reality, proposing new ways of being, understanding and coexisting. Through this process, forms of communication are activated that do not necessarily rely on language, that transcend the given and create new common ground.

The 32nd Festival is composed of performances that embrace this existential instability and create magical spaces, times and worlds, transcending realism. Through the “magic” of art, fragility is transformed into a place of encounter and possibility — a space where uncertainty is not excluded, but becomes common ground, and our vulnerability becomes a condition for meaningful coexistence.