Dancity Festival

The World Cup. You’re all thinking about it. Every four years. South Africa 2010. And even if you’re not thinking about it, the media does it for you. They talk about it. And so, you think about it too. But close your eyes for a moment. Now reopen them. Try thinking about something else. Try using other media, imagining other world tournaments. No sport, or at least, no existing sports. Imagine other playing fields. Try thinking about this: a digital music world cup. The location is Foligno, it’s summer: the 25th and 26th June 2010. The “world cup” is Dancity, the electronic and digital music festival now in its third year: our “Field of play”. Electronic music is our playing field, the dance floor is our green pitch. The athletes are musicians playing until dawn, after the 90th minute; the fans are dancing bodies. Go to a newsstand, buy the photo album, get the stickers, because this year the Dancity team has a star-studded lineup: Bugge Wesseltoft (Nor) + Henrik Schwarz (Ger), laptop music applied to jazz, as if you were to apply geometry to Garrincha’s football bebop; the eternal prodigy Prins Thomas (Nor) and his robotronic; Floating Points’ (UK) compact pressure; Etienne Jaumet’s headers and emotional electronica; Commodity Place’s (Ita) entrancing maneuvers; John Potter’s wise sounds (UK, with Ambrose Field), and a career to rival Vierchowod’s in length; the Berlin native Cassy’s clean tackles and minimal, elegant plays; Alessio Bertallot’s unpredictability (in trident formation with the jazz musicians Giovanni Guidi and Gianluca Petrella); Marco Bernardi, of italo-scottish origins; 2562 (Dutch dubstep, as new as Crujiff and his teammates’ ‘total footbal’ in ‘74); the freedom of movement of the pansexualist activist Terre Taemlitz/Dj Sprinkles (USA), digital music’s ‘9.5’; Soulphiction + Susan Rozkosny’s (Ger) deep house sounds, keeping the beat up even when you’ve given it your all; and finally, up ahead, the undisputed, unequalled Alva Noto + Ryoji Ikeda (Ger + Jap). The lineup is ready. The schedule is the same as always: 2 days of visions and music, dinners in local inns (osterie), electro concerts in Auditorium (a medieval church with 14th century frescoes), agriturismos instead of hotels, strolls at dawn through historic city centre alleys; Music from the present superimposed on scenery rooted in the past.

Dancity 2010. These are our rules: 48 hours of play + possible overtime. This is our pitch. We put the ball in, you bring the bodies and the sweat. Wear your best uniforms and come dance. One more time.

Welcome to Dancity, “World Cup” edition. Welcome to Folignohttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5cW4rQUIN90