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- a l e x a n d r e f e r n á n d e z
- l ' a j o u r (3 1)
- parallel 36º and other parallels - choreographic duo
“To observe the world and analyse it, to study its representations, to interchange its information, to share impressions exchanging looks, interchange words, movements…the immigration of ways of observing, the immigration of words, the immigration of the body…movements, displacements, gestures of survival.”
Alexandre Fernández
Not a single day passes by without there being reports of shipwrecks, refugee detentions, thirsty, starving, beaten, raped men, women, and children crammed in tiny rafts, hidden in woods which are regularly burnt by security guards, or who throw themselves recklessly at the electric fences that surround Europe the fortress.
Confronted by this reality Alexandre Fernandez has designed “Parallel 36º and other parallels”, a choreographic duo interpreted by two women, where texts, words, movement, and bodies are intertwined against an audiovisual backdrop.
This piece, written both in French and Spanish, is the second part of the “A Gesture for Survival” Trilogy, which questions the concept of “territory” and “borders” through the analysis of a very specific geographic area: the Strait of Gibraltar, parallel 36º and the Spanish enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla in Morocco.
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