Les Gens qui Partent explores the act of leaving—endured, chosen, or dreamed—and its inner transformations. This immersive performance blends live music, sound creation, scenography, recorded testimonies, and videos, inviting audiences on a sensory journey through intimate landscapes and shifting territories.
Rooted in the Mediterranean, the project connects the sea’s passages and drifts with frontiers such as the US-Mexico border, marked by tension and reinvention. Artists gathered sonic traces—sea breaths, rough grounds, voices, flows—that shape a musical writing where reality meets imagination and memory opens onto projection.
Documentarian Sami Tedeschi collected fragments of life from people in movement and from those working along these borders; onstage, Albane Tamagna enters into dialogue with works by Wilfrido Terrazas, Gilles Doneux, and François Couvreur. Together, these pieces map different facets of movement—crossing, immersion, repetition, friction—while contrasting ancient exile myths with contemporary migrations.
A shared sonic experience questioning identity and belonging.
Watch the US/MEX version — with migrants from Casa Familiar de San Isidro
Duration : 55 minutes
Format : Immersive performance for flutes, electronics, spatialized sound, testimonies, and videos
Performers : 1 musician, 1 sound designer, 1 lighting/stage operator
Booking fee : 2.400 €
Artistic choices require selecting voice fragments from hours of recordings, inevitably silencing others due to performance duration constraints. All testimonies are fully mapped and preserved in context on our sonic cartography ensuring no voice is decontextualized.Our encounters with communities and migrant camps remain deeply respectful, approached with restraint and sensitivity.
This work rejects exploitation or voyeurism; ethics stay at the project’s heart, guiding every step.
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