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...an immigrants' journey
adaptation of texts by Georges Perec and Gaëlle Josse
with a musical accompaniment and projected images
22 april 2018 at 5pm
Théâtre Cité-Bleue, Geneva
In perfect resonance with the current situation, through this creation, we wish to evoke :
- the unprecedented exodus in human history, which took place during the XIX and XX centuries,
- the inexorable departure of thousands of people who were forced to leave their homeland to escape political, racial or religious oppression or simply flee from famine and misery,
- the conditions these people endured and the dangers they faced during their journey and on arrival.
These texts tell us of current news: misery, poverty, oppression, on our doorstep today as yesterday. Eduardo Kohan introduces and accompanies on the saxophone and melodica the adaptation of the text recited by Nelly Uzan. Texts and music overlap and intertwine, in parallel they are enriched by images from archives arranged and projected by Malachi Kohan, highlighting the evocation.
The texts come mainly from the book - Ellis Island - by Georges Perec, interweave by lines from the book - The last guardian of Ellis Island - by Gaelle Josse.
Published in 1980 - Ellis Island - results from a voyage with Robert Bober, film-maker and a friend of Georges Perec, on the traces of different immigrants, Jewish, Italian and others, who passed through this registration centre. Based on the text by Georges Perec, Robert Bober made a film – Tales from Ellis Island – which won the Festival of Florence Prize in 1980.
