Jeremy Nedd celebrates dance as resistance in Slidin’ thru.
‘Where do you start when the modern world order is crumbling in front of your eyes, and all the rights that have been fought for over years are being unceremoniously thrown out of the window? For choreographer Jeremy Nedd, the answer is clear: get together and dance.
Along with two fellow dancers, he explores the nostalgic social dances that emerged in the 1970s in the US. These dances were about participation, not performance. With their simple choreographies, they invited people to join in, and served as tools for social cohesion and community building. Nedd uses them here to frame the past with a wary eye on the future, but also to show that dance can be a joyful form of resistance in difficult times.
Slidin’ thru show that what is happening today, we have endured before - and that together, we’ll get through it again now. This performance is being staged on location in a basketball court, as part of the Dear Antwerp city festival.