The Right to Dance: The Party as a Space of Representation

à la sauvette, Essay, expanding design practices, No Density, Politics and economics, Urban Paradigms.

Active Public Spaces, Activism, Alternative Domesticity, City space, Collective identity, Community, Essay, Gender, Human rights, Inclusion, Leisure, LGBTQ, Network society, New urban lifestyles, Public Space, Social contributor, Spatial Ideologies, Urban fabric.

Essay by à la sauvette excerpted from L’Atelier Magazine, EPFL.

In contrast to other public or private parties, the Carnival does not understand about classes. The Carnival has a civic component; it democratizes the space in which it is celebrated. Everyone — regardless of their social or economic status — is on the same level. Students from private universities and public high schools dance mixed in the same place because they are no longer students, but firemen, octopuses, pharaohs, or fairy godmothers. There is no place you cannot enter because dancing takes place on the street, and VIP areas are pointless. After all, the fun is where the crowd is.