When a City Moves Together

IN2IT
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Each year, the act of curating IN2IT begins long before the program is assembled.

It begins with listening.

Listening to the rhythms of the time we are living in.

Listening to the questions moving through artists.

Listening to what bodies are carrying — often before language arrives.

Gradually, a landscape starts to appear. Not a collection of performances, but a field of encounters.

Because a festival, at its deepest level, is not something we simply attend. It is something we enter. Something we help bring into being through our presence.

Curating Beyond Urgency

This year’s festival unfolds under the theme Beyond Emergency – Dance as a Practice of Agency.

While last year invited celebration, this edition turns toward orientation.

How do we stay responsive without living in constant reaction?

How do we remain open, sensing, and relational in a world that often asks us to accelerate?

The artists gathered here do not offer conclusions. Instead, they create spaces where we can practice attention differently — through movement, through proximity, through shared time.

Again and again, I returned to works that insist on one simple but radical gesture:

to pause, and to notice.

A Living Cultural Ecology

What moves me most about this year’s program is the breadth of bodies it holds.

Children encountering dance for the first time.

Young artists stepping forward.

Experienced voices deepening their practice.

International perspectives meeting local realities.

Communities gathering across generations.

This is not accidental.

It reflects a belief that culture is not built by a few — it is sustained collectively.

When audiences enter the theatre, the studio, the library, the foyer — something shifts. The work becomes complete in the meeting between performer and witness.

Your presence is not secondary.

It is part of the choreography of the festival itself.

Why We Gather Now

There is something profoundly hopeful about choosing to gather around art.

At a time when much of life is mediated through screens, efficiency, and distance, the decision to sit in a room with others — breathing the same air, witnessing the same moment — carries quiet significance.

Art reminds us how to be together without needing immediate resolution.

To listen without rushing toward answers.

To feel before explaining.

To recognize ourselves in unfamiliar bodies.

This is how cultural spaces remain alive.

Not only through programming — but through participation.