This performance is a political one.

Two dancers ceremoniously transport their leader across the room to a microphone, where she starts making announcements in Spanish.

One dancer, wearing a yellow tailored jacket, starts performing repetitive obsessive movements while chanting. She questions who will be the one to make the world's decisions.

Another dancer, wearing a green tailored jacket, takes her place. Her obsessive movements and chants make her look hysterical. She repeats that it is pointless and that she is sick from 'incapableness', finally succumbing to the fact that she is 'powerless'.

After the issues of bad governance have been uncovered, the music starts. The leader is dancing in a ritualistic manner, chaotically and energetically. The other dancers join her, moving in the same manner, but incongruously to each other.

Through their dancing, we can feel the purposeful chaos that accompanies their realisation that greed and corruption are leading us to our demise. Feel the anger driving a desire to rise and dismantle the system.  

The exasperation at not knowing how to do that, but the eagerness to try.

The Writers & Critics Platform held at Dance Festival Malta organized by Festivals Malta is supported by Arts Council Malta, Festivals Malta

Photo courtesy Elisa Von Brockdorff