Under the artistic direction of Marlyn Attie, COCO Contemporary Dance Company operates through a project-based model that integrates creation, training, and interdisciplinary experimentation. Its repertoire encompasses works by core artists and commissioned pieces by international choreographers, fostering a continuous dialogue between diverse artistic practices and perspectives. Based in Panama City, Panama, the company is housed at Ciudad de las Artes.

A fusion of parkour and contemporary dance exploring risk as a starting point, resilience, and surrender in movement, The Art of Falling calls us to fall, to take a leap of faith, to leave our comfort zone and surpass ourselves daily — as people and as artists.

It sees falling not as a mistake but as a language in itself, a dialogue between control and release. A fleeting moment among the countless times we fall. And then?

The artists take the audience through sensations that allow them to rediscover what we all love: dance, art, and new beginnings.

The piece revives, through dance, the memory of childhood games we used to share with friends in the schoolyard or on the street. Each movement is a wink to the child that still lives within us—to that simple joy of jumping, running, inventing, and laughing together.

On stage, the performers play with dance, with the audience, and with each other, inviting everyone to rediscover the complicity of play and the shared smile. The work becomes a playful space where the everyday transforms into choreography and the intimate becomes a collective celebration. This piece has been recognized by the Dance Bloc Festival in New York, United States.