Theater street protest performance, with a 50 women drum line, actors on loud speakers and video projections onto various city buildings in Manhattan, Brooklyn and the Bronx. Based on “Papers” written by Violaine Schwartz.
Marion Schoevaert (Director), Danny Bryck (Director); Young Cheong (Projection Director); Gus Ford (Cameraman, DP); Hussein Smko (Choreography); Irina Patkanian (Filmmaker), Music Director (Stacy Kovacs) Drum Line (Fogo Azul), Actors
PAPERS will be a “total performance” in which the public is both audience and participant / protestor. Through a visceral encounter with the true stories of asylum seekers and their sometimes unimaginable struggles to obtain identification, we will all look at our own identities, positionalities, and relationships to “the other.” The faces of refugees, projected onto the buildings of our city, will be interspersed with live images of ourselves, watching, reminders of our responsibility to the society we wish to inhabit. Illuminated by this light in the darkness, a dance and live music will emerge, inviting us into a theatre and politics of hope, celebration, and unity.
Supported by NYSCA and FACE Contemporary Theater, a program of Villa Albertine, Washington Square Park Conservancy and FACE Foundation, in partnership with the French Embassy in the United States; and PSC-CUNY Research Award Program.
