At the Museum of Communication, an exhibition puts dance in the spotlight

Of November 8, 2024 to July 20, 2025the Museum of Communication in Bern will offer a new exhibition. DANCE! will highlight everything that dance can do for our well-being. This theme will bring a smile to faces full of enthusiasm, thanks to its interactive concept and lots of music. Free, always available and good for both the body and the mind, dance is indeed a source of comfort in difficult times!

The first thing we hear in our lives is a rhythm: a heartbeat in our pregnant mother’s womb. Is this where our special relationship to rhythm and dance comes from? One thing is certain: we all dance, whether in nightclubs, at weddings, with a few friends or in the presence of thousands of strangers. And it almost always puts us in a good mood.

This theme is approached in a fun and relaxed way. Rather than choreographies on polished floors, the exhibition deals with well-known situations where dance mixes with our daily lives. And thanks to a little trick put in place from the start, even the most reluctant people join the dance. In the first room, dancing is simply prohibited. Does it work? We quickly realize: with certain music videos, our neurobiology does not help us at all to stay truly still. Our brain wants to dance! The rhythm and the people already in motion set in motion processes which induce a strong desire to move: if we give in, good humor invades us. However, dancing does not only provide positive emotions. The complex coordination between the body, the brain and the social context even helps to rejuvenate us. When we dance, we quickly forget fatigue and stress: a certain well-being sets in! Dance can be compared to a massage for our brain and our body. But that’s not all: it is also a vector of non-verbal communication, which can extend to political messages.

With lots of music, little text and numerous interactive stations, this exhibition invites you to explore without restraint the joy our body feels when it moves and the energy that comes from dancing. What songs make me move? What fascinates me about dance? How does artificial intelligence dance? The DANCE! offers answers to these questions. So that ultimately a question arises: shouldn’t we dance more? Dance holds great potential, it releases a natural cocktail of happy hormones – something we might need given the current political situation on our planet. A free remedy and always available. A pick-me-up for tough times.