In the wake of the pandemic, the Courrèges festival is built off a shared desire to reconnect with a sense of community and the thrill of shared abandonment. This rave-inspired event is held in the outskirts of Paris, in a vast outdoor space turned into a maze of smoke and mirrors. Tall, reflective panels diffuse the late-summer sunlight through billowing smoke, cloaking, then revealing the dance floor. A dance of light and space set to a techno beat, it envelops partygoers in a collective daze.