Barramundi

Community Dance is an inclusive language that celebrates dance as a right for everyone. Moving beyond the dictates of technique and a purely therapeutic approach, it places individual freedom at its core — in the pursuit of bodily awareness and all its expressive possibilities, through creativity. In a shared space, movement becomes a tool for finding an alternative form of communication to the spoken word, transforming each person’s peculiarities and differences into collective resources, and the pleasure of dancing into an experience of profound democracy and social belonging. The associations PinDoc and Rosa Shocking, through the experience, work, and great artistic sensibility of Theodor Rawyler and, after his passing, of his collaborators, have always been active in the social sphere and on the local territory through Community Dance workshop activities across a range of contexts, promoting a research practice that transcends traditional aesthetic and technical canons, seeking a dance that is possible in every context — one in which the lived experience, the body, and the active listening of participants become essential elements for a shared dance open to the participatory gaze of an audience. In its very name, community dance understands dance as a fundamental expressive language for the purposes of inclusion, capable of engaging all the people who constitute a community or who share its challenges and characteristics. By offering ample space to the personal, corporeal, and mental sphere, it promotes expressive movement awareness, coordination, and the development of creativity, rather than the acquisition of pre-established movement codes, within a methodological perspective that is experiential rather than technical-executory in nature. Dance thus becomes the art of using and organising one’s own body and movement to express, communicate, and invent — developing intuition and imagination through the exploration of creative solutions. If corporeality is considered the origin of all our cognitive, sensory, and emotional experience, the body constitutes the pedagogical device capable of opening different communicative channels; communication, from this perspective, may not require words, since every movement, gesture, or act offers new possibilities of existential meaning: attention is not paid to performative or muscular ability, nor to age, agility, strength, or flexibility, but to acting and interacting with others.
Since 2019, within the Tendance festival, the following workshops have taken shape, with urban artistic presentations: Bonifica, Sakura, Barramundi, Quello che resta, Chaosia: il vuoto e la città, Poppy seeds. Scritto sul corpo is instead a longer work conceived for a theatrical space, and was performed at the Teatro Biblioteca il Quarticciolo on 25 September 2025.