Choreographing Antifascism

From the US to India, from Europe to Israel, fascism no longer appears as an abstract threat or a historical exception but as a long-term process expanding from within Western democracy. In 2025, the speed at which fascist politics has advanced has outpaced all expectations. 

While its faces may differ from one context to another, a reliable indicator of present-day fascism is the broad array of many “others” scapegoated for cruel contempt, persecution or exclusion: racialized people, colonized Indigenous peoples, migrants, LGBTQI individuals, people with disabilities, the poor and the precarized, and all those who stand in collective solidarity with them. 

To catch up, anyone resisting the normalization of this ordeal may feel compelled to reclaim antifascism asking what it demands today, and what might be within their power to defy it. 

While dancers in the 1930s explicitly stood up against fascism by opposing their bodies to it, our task today lies elsewhere—in our practices of solidarity and collectivity nurturing differences. 

How might the know-how of choreography, performance, and activism—through collaboration, self-organized communities, and allyship—move us toward antifascist “world-making,” through the gestures of bodies, the force of collective action, and the everyday practices of resistance? How can we renew trust in the capacity of artists and activists to communicate their social poetics beyond an in-crowd, without renouncing anything experimental in their work?