Urgency

Urgency is an immersive, interactive, and site-specific multi-disciplinary performance about borders, conflict, and pressure, both internally within ourselves and externally through social and political structures. The work explores how bodies carry tension, how identity is shaped by belonging and exclusion, and how invisible forces influence the way we move, connect, and exist.

Created by queer artists shaped by experiences of conflict, including roots in Mexican American border struggles, the piece reveals how power and social systems leave marks on the body, turning movement into an expression of lived experience.

Designed as an interactive experience, the performance unfolds throughout the entire space rather than on a single stage. The performers move through and around the audience, activating the full environment and transforming the site itself into part of the choreography.

The audience is not positioned as distant observers, but as witnesses inside the world of the work, as the dancers move through the space in real time. This site specific approach shows that borders and systems are not abstract ideas, but lived realities that directly affect us.

The piece combines live dance, motion tracking, projection, and a politically conscious soundscape in a 360 degree environment, presented on a d&b audiotechnik spatial sound system that surrounds the audience with sound from all directions. Real time mapping by Antidote.psd captures the dancers’ movement and turns it into projected visuals, making emotional tension and inner states visible. The projections are not just background elements but part of the choreography, showing patterns of control, restriction, and release.

Teaser Video: youtube.com/watch?v=7g-tsguP20s

Location: Haus der Visionäre - Eichenstraße 4A, 12435 Berlin

Duration: 1h10

Produced by Leonis Works

Directed by Renato De Leon

Concept & Choreography by Dan Ozeri & Renato De Leon

Fashion collaboration with Haderlump

Performers: 

• Dafni Krazoudi
• Jade Albrieux
• Caterina Politi
• Dan Ozeri
• Renato De Leon

Projection Design, Mapping & Visual Identity: Antidote.psd

Sound Design & Editing: Mor Elian

Lighting Design: Marco di Nardo