DJ RESILIENZA COLLETTIVA @ MILAN (IT) (APRIL, 2020)

During PHASE 1 of the Covid-19 lockdown of 2020, together with a group of neighbours in Milan, I decided to DJ 20 minute music and movement sessions at 6pm every evening for all of the people in our courtyard. We decided to call ourselves DJ Collective Resilience (or DJ Resilienza Collettiva). The main idea was for people to come together, out onto their balconies or wave from their windows to call out messages of support, to sing, to dance, to stand still together: whatever it takes to nourish and nurture the bonds of a community trapped inside their homes. The playlist was composed of a mixture of all kinds of music, so that everybody might feel included to sing, to dance, to smile to cry. Or as they say in the language of the lockdown: State con noi a casa insieme (Be with us at home together).