1,2,3 GO! was developed through the Choreo Sync Residency (dancEUA project) in Budapest, Hungary, before being re-performed at the Šouruk Festival in Belgrade, Serbia.

The work explores morality — the shifting line between right and wrong — and the grey fog where human desire and guilt intertwine. Through rhythm and repetition, the dancers inhabit a collective pulse that reflects the seductive drive of being human: greed, pleasure, desire, fear, and guilt.

At our core, we are creatures of repetition. Our days loop in cycles of sleep, work, consumption, and release, again and again. Like the ensemble’s pulse, these routines intensify over time, sharpening some impulses while smothering others, until even the smallest action becomes a moral test.

Drawing from the idea of the endurance walk, the dancers push themselves past exhilaration and exhaustion into something more primal. Each continues for a private reason — desire, fear, pride, guilt — until the illusion of unison fractures into individual battles.

In the end, only one remains. Not triumphant or pure, but simply the body that did not stop. Survival becomes both reward and burden, leaving an unresolved question: When you outlast the rest, is it victory — or the exposure of a truth we all carry, that we are never as united as we pretend?