The Summer School is about to begin, with the objective of transmitting the scientific findings achieved during the course of five years of the TransMigrARTS project. It also seeks to train people interested in collaborating with migrant communities through art. Fourteen partners, including universities, cultural companies, researchers and artists from five countries in Europe and Latin America, have been involved in a pioneering scientific experience: to demonstrate that the performing arts can play a key role in transforming and improving the living conditions of migrants living in at-risk situations in their new environments. Live arts workshops have been designed, using a methodology of applied research and creation, to facilitate the integration of migrant communities. From July 3 to 21, various activities will be carried out to offer a complete certified training and allow the exchange of experiences between artists and researchers.
In addition, during the Summer School, a documentary musical will be performed under the direction of Mexican playwright and theater director Omar Olvera, with music by Hugo Morales Zendejas.
Migrant Workshop
A documentary musical about how difficult – and how wonderful – it is to become a community.
A group of migrants is about to present a play they have created collectively in an artistic workshop. The stage is almost set, but the coexistence is far from ready: personal stories, cultural differences, open wounds, doubts and affections intertwine, threatening to collapse the process. While rehearsing, discussing and facing their own limits, the group discovers that the most complex thing is not to get to the premiere… but to sustain each other.
About the musical "Taller de Migrantes: un nuevo musical".
Based on an actual workshop developed within the framework of the European program TransMigrARTS. Over the course of approximately one hour, the cast sings, confronts, embraces and exposes itself through original songs, scenes of collective creation and choreographic fragments arising from play, improvisation and conflict. The work takes place in real time, as if the audience were spying on a workshop session from start to finish: the warm-up, the exercises, the internal friction and the rehearsal of the work they are about to present. Everything takes place in an empty space that simulates a rehearsal room or workshop classroom, with a simple, everyday aesthetic, charged with humanity. Eight uneven chairs, a roll of kraft paper, scattered scripts, a portable speaker and an improvised table are enough to give life to the scenic universe. Taller de Migrantes is an intimate, emotional and deeply human piece that combines humor, emotion and music to portray the strength -and fragility- of creating something together. A show where art is not the goal, but the path. And where what is at stake is not just a performance… but the real possibility of transformation.
Co-organized by the TAI School and the TransMigrARTS program, the Institut français hosts “Taller de Migrantes” on July 16 and 17 at 8:00 p.m. at the Institut français Theater in Madrid.
Important information:
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Thank you! We look forward to seeing you at the Theater of the Institut Français in Madrid.
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