Again Forever

Over the past twelve years, Lisa Vereertbrugghen has researched the political and physical dimensions of (hardcore) techno music and dance. With Again Forever, she expands her research to explore a social dance at the opposite end of the speed spectrum: the slow dance. 

Again Forever approaches the slow dance as a potentially subversive dance, a slow sister to underground dances like hardcore gabber. This performance highlights the radical way the slow dance engages with intimacy and time in an age dominated by productivity, speed, and isolation. The slow dance is removed from its traditional context and connected to the queer nightlife of today. Slow dancing becomes a collective practice with changing constellations and relationships, and a form of resistance. 

With a cast of four FLINTA*-performers, Again Forever is a re-appropriation of slow dancing without fixed leaders or followers and embodies a total rejection of predetermined gender roles. It is our approach to anti-patriarchal slow dancing. The audience is immersed in the ritual of a slow rave where alternating constellations, couples, solo, trio, and quartet slow dances merge into one long, uninterrupted dance. Time becomes subjective and not linear, filled with loops and repetitions that give the dance a timeless quality. 


*FLINTA stands for Female (female), Lesbian (lesbian), Intersex (intersex), Non-binary (non-binary), Trans (transgender) and Agender (gender-free)