Displacement is a hybrid, intergenerational creative project for amateur participants that brings together dance and contemporary music. It explores the connections, shifts, divergences, convergences, and tensions between these two artistic disciplines, as well as their relationships to migration. The creation revolves around the theme of the “group” as something that—beyond questions of social class or geographic origin—brings us together and makes us resemble one another.
How do we form a chorus? How can an individual bodily motif influence or “contaminate” a group once integrated into it? How do members of a group alternately engage in relationships of tension, balance, and counterbalance with one another? In contrast, the work also explores the idea of distinction: how can the group’s individualities express themselves—through physical contact as well as through distant visual and sonic connections?
This project involves a group of underage migrants supported by various organizations (the Red Cross in Bobigny, Alteralia in Aubervilliers) and a group of local residents from Romainville. Over the course of several months, participants engage in a series of key, convivial moments (choreographic and musical workshops, observation-based workshops, cultural outings), culminating in the creation of a choreographic piece set to a musical repertoire performed by soloists.