Preview: 31.03.26, 20:30 (doors open at 20:00) – only upon registration

Urgency is an immersive, interactive, and site-specific multi-disciplinary dance piece centred on lived experiences of borders, conflict, and pressure, both within ourselves and externally through socio-political structures. Combining contemporary dance, performative art, and elements of classical ballet, the work features both male and female performers dancing en pointe, an unusual gesture that unsettles traditional ballet conventions and introduces a physical language of tension, discipline, and instability.

The piece explores how bodies carry pressure, how identity is shaped by belonging and exclusion, and how invisible forces influence the way we move, connect, and exist.

Created by artists shaped by experiences of conflict, including roots in Mexican American border struggles, the piece reveals how power and social systems leave marks on the body, turning movement into an expression of lived experience.

Designed as an interactive experience, the performance unfolds throughout the entire space rather than on a single stage. The performers move through and around the audience, activating the full environment and transforming the site itself into part of the choreography. The audience is not positioned as distant observers but as witnesses inside the world of the work, as the dancers move through the space in real time. This site specific approach shows that borders and systems are not abstract ideas but lived realities that directly affect us.

The piece combines live dance, motion tracking, projection, and a politically conscious soundscape in a 360-degree environment, presented on a D&B audiotechnik spatial sound system that surrounds the audience with sound from all directions.

Real-time mapping by Antidote.psd captures the dancers’ movement and turns it into projected visuals, making emotional tension and inner states visible. The projections are not just background elements but part of the choreography, showing patterns of control, restriction, and release.

The audience experiences the body both as human presence and as visual data, highlighting the tension between lived experience and the systems that attempt to define or monitor it.

Produced by Leonis Works
Directed by Renato De Leon

Concept & Choreography by Dan Ozeri & Renato De Leon
In collaboration with Haderlump Atelier Berlin

Performers
Dafni Krazoudi
Jade Albrieux
Caterina Politi
Dan Ozeri
Renato De Leon

Projections Designs & Mapping: Antidote.psd
Music Mixing & Editing: Mor Elian
Lighting Design: Marco di Nardo