Lisa Vereertbrugghen has previously explored the political and physical dimensions of hardcore techno. This time, she turns her attention to the other end of the speed spectrum: the slow. A dance that is radically intimate and slow in an era dominated by speed and isolation. She transforms it into a slow rave version: collective and rebellious.

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

Again Forever approaches the slow as a potentially subversive dance, a slow sister to rave dance. The performance focuses on the radical way in which the slow engages with intimacy and time in an era dominated by productivity, speed and isolation.

Vereertbrugghen takes the slow dance out of its traditional context and connects it to today’s queer nightlife. Slow dancing thus becomes a collective practice and a form of resistance, a ‘slow rave’.