Instabili Vaganti’s ‘Beyond borders’ project in Tunis
In collaboration with the Italian Cultural Institute
The international project ‘Beyond Borders’, directed by the theatre company Instabili Vaganti and supported by the MiC as part of the ‘Boarding Pass Plus 2022-24’ program, opened its doors to the public at the end of a first recent step in Tunis.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced this, remind the audience that the first work in progress was presented at the Sala Bernard Turin of the Theatre National Tunisienne.
The founders of the company, the director and actor Anna Dora Dorno, and the performer and playwright Nicola Pianzola, assisted by two of the artists of the project, the dancer Camilla Paris, and the performer Mouayed El Ghazouani, have in fact directed an intensive 4-day workshop with 12 Tunisian artists. This included actors, performers, dancers, to be selected as the work team that will be involved in the co-production ‘Frontières # Tunisie’, a collaboration between ‘Instabili Vaganti’, ‘Theatre National Tunisienne’ and the Italian Cultural Institute of Tunis, which will debut in November 2024.
This first study is the result of a research process around the theme of “border” developed by Instabili Vaganti together with the participants of the workshop, invited “to transpose their reflections on the proposed themes into scenic actions”.
The performers have dug “inside their own cultural and performative traditions, to understand the present, to tell through gestures, actions, texts and songs, the limits they have had to overcome, the borders they have tried to cross to affirm their identity, and the new challenges that await them”. A sort of “walk backwards on a circular line of time, which triggers a dance of distance, a call that echoes like a song that comes from the other side of a border. Ritual steps, traditional songs, spiral-shaped actions, move the performers’ bodies in space, triggering a dance in constant balance on those thin and invisible lines that separate us and that we call ‘borders'”.