Irresistible Revolution

Irresistible Revolution features childhood memories – corso carnivals and their parades, the pulsating beat of the cumparsa groups, dazzling excess, the fully developed love of dance – as well as research by authors into Pleasure activism, the social cohesion activated by festivity, the radical happiness of shared connections, festive transgression and its political ramifications. There is also playing, with its rules, its surprises, its fictions. Exploring these potentials for transformative power, Ayelen Parolin propels twelve dancers into a celebration of bodily excess, “a choreographic ode to the act of being together based upon what one is and what one can do”. Written simultaneously, movement and music embrace hybridization, just like the carnival which, permeable to impulse and defiance, opens the way for unpredictability.