Pop-Up Dance Swap

Pop-up Dance Swap is a semi-improvisational participatory performance in which vernacular dance gestures take on a new mode of circulation. The Dance Swap was a part of Super Pop-Up Shop curated by Glen Helfand and Rebeca Bollinger at the Alameda Towne Centre in December, 2009.

In the show, participants were invited from the Alameda community to perform a dance swap, teaching or learning a popular dance form. The exchange took place on a pair of wooden dance floors. Participants were encouraged to teach dances as well as to learn dance forms from an on-site choreographer. When not activated by dancers, the floors stood as sculptural forms.