In the context of rising populism and communitarianism in Europe, young Europeans, supported by the Plateforme de lajeune création franco-allemande (or: Plattform) and its partners, wanted to raise public awareness of the fight against totalitarianism and the defense of democracy from a transnational perspective. These young people, members of the partner organizations in France, Germany and Spain, wanted to use the medium of live performance, culture and cultural mediation to bring people together, reach out and question. The idea was to highlight a shared European memory in the form of a collective Dance and Light creation. Referring to key events in the history of Germany, Spain and France, the aim was to evoke a shared experience, that of citizens' rallies which have strongly marked European history: Fight and exile of the Republicans in Spain, Resistance to the Occupation regime in France and the Peaceful Revolution in the GDR are three examples of citizens' struggles against totalitarian regimes whose commemoration was an opportunity for the participants to question civic commitment, but also to highlight the threats to democracy and how they can strengthen European values of democracy and rule of law. The aim was to create a dance performance within a light installation thematizing the history of European movements of resistance to oppression. Sharing the creation with the general public enabled us to broaden the reflection with a diverse, intergenerational audience. The tri-national performance was presented at the emblematic light festivals of the 3 cities of the participating groups: Leipzig's Lichtfest, Lyon's Fête des Lumières and Barcelona's Llum Festival, that took place between October 2024 and February 2025. These three popular events attracted large numbers of spectators from all over the world (the Fête des Lumières in Lyon attracted almost 2 million visitors, the Lichtfest Leipzig up to 150,000, and Festival Llum in Barcelona nearly 170,000). The performances was part of the program and the official communication of each festival, ensuring a public of all generations, in all its diversity, on the scale of each of the organizing cities.