Produced and presented by Andreas Bedorf
Dance Again follows Noa through one night at a music festival — a psychedelic celebration of love and unity that collapses into a massacre.
The play explores an unfolding terror attack from the perspective of a brain under the influence of mind-expanding drugs. Told through the distorted lens of LSD and guided by a live DJ who sculpts the atmosphere in real time, the play oscillates between ecstatic peaks and traumatic episodes, fracturing Noa's reality until she can no longer tell trip from truth. All while confronting the vanishing of her partner, her friends, the very idea the dance floor represents.
What follows is a reckoning with irreversible loss and the question of whether joy can ever be reclaimed.
Based on real events, Dance Again is a love letter to rave and festival culture, and a confrontation with terror choosing it as battlefield — a memorial, a rave, and a refusal.
How can you dance again?
Cast
Stephanie Christodoulidou - Noa
Mai Weisz - Myriam
Charlie Howe - Ben
Chris McCormack - Rami
Weyal Bariz - Ahmed
Andreas Bedorf - DJ
Creative Team
Andreas Bedorf - Writer/Co-Director
Dr Pedro Perez Rothstein - Co-Director/Dramaturg
Maya Dagan - Movement Director
Tajiyah Sulwana - Movement and Voice Coach
https://www.instagram.com/dance_again_play/
Monday 10 to Wednesday 12 August - 9:00pm
Age Suitability: 16+
Content warnings: Depiction of a terror attack, gunfire, explosions, air raid sirens, drug use, implied sexual violence, psychological distress, trauma, grief, strobe lighting, and psychedelic projections.
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