Yet everyone agrees that the future of the body, its increasingly comprehensive medical treatment, its modifiability to create resistance to viruses and cancer, its genetic mutations as well as the fluid attributions of gender and all of the no longer normative bodies of a “different beauty” are one thing. On the other hand, there is the knowledge that this body is entering a three-dimensional metaverse of digital simulations and that we, as bearers of names, including our identities and passports, are subject to increasingly complete control – and it is not just a worldwide industry of researchers that is behind this. Seismically sensitive artists are also finding their stances, reacting, applying the future to their own bodies, trying out new narratives, designing redemptive landscapes or dark dystopias. Like in Hong Kong. There, the ubiquitous control over the body is being legitimized via a new Chinese security law. How is the dance scene reacting to this? What happens in and with their bodies when every movement can be suspected of subversion, when every non-normative step, every dance, can be interpreted as a critique of the status quo? Critic Joanna Hoi-yin Lee describes this situation in a breathtaking report.