Critical Techno is a trance lecture dance meditation — a two hour collective journey in-between listening, dancing, words, sounds, beats, sweat and bodies. Helena Dietrich and Thomas Proksch are experimenting with a format in-between dance-party and lecture. Theoretical texts are combined with poetic texts and somatic scores, creating a journey where listening becomes an embodied experience, with a desire to give voice to the underrepresented — weird, fantastic, occult, queer — writers, theories and concepts, merging them into a new story. The hypnotic voice as in a guided meditation takes the audience on a collective imaginary trip. The music is eclectic, from field recordings to drum beats, always referencing the techno culture with a wink, supporting the transformative experience of the crowd. Could dance parties become moments of collective reflection? How can we use joy and natural highs as catalysers for understanding?