The «Etat d'Urgence» (State of Emergency) company has the objective to create a singular, original and contemporary performance.

Composed by:

· Martine Cendre, direction assistant, dramaturge and actress

· Sébastien Pin, set designer, constructor and performer

· Camille Blanc, dancer and choreographer

· Anthony Lefebvre, dancer and acrobat

· Jordi L. Vidal, dancer, director and choreographer

· Amanda Da Silva, researcher in international migration

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Amanda was on the initiative of this project. She has done her research in the field with refugees and immigrants in Europe. She developed a thesis for the ISCTE in Lisbon University, Award of Excellence and honour of the jury and published by UNODC (United Nations Office against Drugs and Crime in Brazil).

This is a multidisciplinary project (dance, theatre, circus, video) that takes its innovation to adapt, interpret and treat a topical subject: the human and the world, in a participatory approach.

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OUR GOALS:

· Speaking in a language that tends to universal on problematic of borders, migration and walls that separate our humanities.

· Transform our personal vision, break out clichés, and build bridges with our experience to reach a wider vision.

· Awareness a wide audience, make them responsible, as an inseparable part of this symbolic system that rejects the difference and condemned to death or misery of men, women and children.

· Conduct field actions, regional, national, European or international on that which founds the rejection of others to learn, to meet, to discover, without judgment or hierarchy, talk without fear or hate, to share our emotions, our cultures...

· Finally construct, write, produce, repeat to achieve a contemporary stage arts form that talks about immigration by refusing stereotypes.

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OUR PRINCIPLES OF ACTION:

· Meet, listen, discuss, exchange and interview the people that we will meet (migrants, residents, associations, traders ...)

· Immersion periods in the refugee camps. These immersions will be conducted with field’ agents and associations to give voice to immigrants through interviews.

· Share a reflective matter usually unavailable to the public, a thesis, scientific research by Amanda Da Silva (specialist in international migrations)

· Propose an exchange time about our know-how: dance happenings, dance, acrobatics, theatre workshops and conferences, all developed on the theme of living together, suitable for all kind of audience.

· While, the creation process will be followed by the eminent sociologist Abdelhafid Hammouche, professor at the University of Lille 1, in order to produce a travelogue, a book, object that will remain.

· Share a scientific approach, sociological, political and human on the situation of migrants and refugees in Europe’s immigration and asylum system (Frontex, Eurodac, Dublin agreements, etc.) through readings and workshops.

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OUR CREATION PLANNING:

· From 2 to 21 Sept. 2015: immersion in the refugee camps

· June 2016: improvisation, public meetings

· September 2016: laboratory, public meetings and set creation

· October 2016: laboratory, public meetings, rehearsals

· November 2016: rehearsals, light and sound creation

· November 17, 2016: final rehearsals, try-outs and premiere

OUR CONFIRMED PARTNERS:

· Le Channel, national scene from Calais

· Le Bateau Feu, national scene from Dunkerque

· La Passerelle, national scene from Alpes du Sud, Gap

· Le Citron Jaune, national Centre of street Arts, Port St Louis du Rhône

· Le 3bis F, place of Contemporary Arts, Aix en Provence

· Le Vélo Théâtre, Apt

· CEDEM, Université de Liège

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