“Dance It All” — Lisbon Connection Week Closing Party (donation based)

​Hi my name is Jo.
I started during cancer—when I began dancing in hospital hallways and everywhere I went it brought me back to life. So I wondered: why isn’t everyone dancing? It became the title of my documentary.

​​Now we are bringing the moves to Carcavelos beach. Gathering for a different kind of dance.

​​No stage, no speakers—but a live DJ stream from Barbara in your headphones, your body, your feelings, your friends and family, and your feet in the ocean.

​​Not to perform. Not to look good. Just to feel it all, move it all, and dance back to life—together and with nature. For anyone.

​​A quiet form of activism: reclaiming our bodies, our aliveness, and our shared humanity. We move to help our world remember its groove;-)

​​WHY?

​​This isn’t new.

​​Through history, humans have always gathered, moved, and entered states of shared joy—in the streets, in nature, in celebration.

​​Over time, something shifted. As cultures became more focused on control, productivity, and order, these spaces for collective expression were reduced, regulated, and pushed aside.

​​We still see it today.

​​In school, we’re not taught to stay in our bodies, feel, or express what’s alive in us. We’re trained to sit still, obey, behave, perform, and cope. To suppress what moves through us—emotion, energy, instinct.

​​And when that happens, something disconnects. From ourselves. From each other. From nature.

​​THE OPPORTUNITY

​​This is an invitation to explore the opposite.

​​We know what happens to our world when we are disconnected from our body, our feelings, each other and nature. We unfortunately see the outcome of that disconnection everywhere globally. Ot creates insanity.

​​What happens when we return to the body—together? When emotion is allowed to move, in public, and with nature, without performance? When we reclaim what we were designed for as a collective?

​​What is possible then?

​​Let’s find out what happens when a beach starts to move?

MESSAGE FROM Bárbara Eugênia, OUR AMAZING DJ
Disco clubbing at the beach? Yes, we can.

​​We’ll take a trip around the globe with delicious tunes so no muscle will be still. Expect high vibes!

​​Bring your headphones. Tune in. Move and share on socials at @whyisnteveryonedancing

​​We are the world we want.❤️

MEETING POINT
On the beach, in front of Casa da Praia
https://maps.app.goo.gl/9SxvkB4HWPqa3i9z7