On 4 June, Thursday, the programme continues once again on the open-air stage in front of Plovdiv Municipality, where at 19:00 Ayelen Parolin from Belgium will present Irresistible Party. Right after that, around 19:30, Parolin and dancers from her company will lead a dance class.

We think we know her, but she reveals another side. Wild, joyful, bursting with color. She is the revolution. If she were a muse carved in marble or painted on canvas, she would meet us with a playful gaze, feathers in her hair, a shimmering dress. If she were a poem, she would pull people in, one by one. If she were music, she would be the soundtrack of a parade like murga winding through the carnival streets of Buenos Aires. On stage, she turns into dance of shared energy and joy. A celebration. This is IRRESISTIBLE REVOLUTION by choreographer Ayelen Parolin, a coproduction of One Dance Festival.

This performance is an eruption of spontaneous, hybrid movement, because revolution needs no script and belongs to no genre. Instead of a barricade, the stage becomes a dance floor for twelve performers, a swarm of bodies woven together with a kaleidoscope of vivid lights, unconventional costumes, and layers of carnival music, dynamic rhythms, and sensual soundscapes. For her latest work, Ayelen Parolin begins with the idea of “the activism of pleasure”,  when a crowd feels united under the flag of utopia and anything is possible. Because activism should not be something special, but rather an everyday, sustainable practice for personal development, satisfaction, and fulfillment, and thus for social change.