You just go downstairs and you are one of the best best horses of the world.

Sharing people's dancing and energy and moving like one.

Every night can be your last night.

Nobody knows what will happen tomorrow.

What happens if we stop dancing?

Dance or die?

Welcome to the documentary from the BBC World Service. I'm Frank McQuine and I'm in

Georgia's capital Tbilisi. I've come to the city's most important techno club

Bassiani. This place and the communities around it

are an integral part of political activism in the country where the simple choice

of coming here to dance all night underscores a sense of disruption and desire for change.

This is global dance floor, Tbilisi.

It's a hot afternoon in May 2024 and I've been given unprecedented access to record inside the club.

Just entered Bessani underneath the city's largest sports arena. It's quite a sight. I'm now in the main room, a huge

disused public swimming pool, around two-thirds of the size of an Olympic pool.

I'm told it fits up to 1,200 people.

As you'd imagine it at the bottom of a pool,

the floor is on a slope,

and at the deeper end, I'm facing the DJ booth and stacks of huge speakers on either side.

Two rows of forced trobe lights hanging from metal chains.

On my right, the bar, on my left the elevated edge of the pool, with barriers to stop people from falling, of course,

but also to give people a view of the crowd from the top.

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