An approach to EXODUS

by Alberto Velasco

The starting point for this year's creation work will be based on EXODUS. In the emigration of a town or a large number of people to another place. In the abandonment of the roots to take root in another land far from your culture, your family and your home. The world we inhabit does not stop having exoduses, from the Spanish people in the middle of the last century to the mass exoduses of peoples around the globe: Syria, Palestine, Africa... and currently the war is much closer than we could have imagined devastates the Ukrainian people.

We will create not only from the origin of the exodus but also from the destination. A collective reflection on empathy and the need for hospitality.

From dynamics and exercises of collective creation and after analysing, debating and contributing everything that crosses us from the word EXODUS (physical, emotional, willful or forced exodus) we will put on the table what mobilizes force in our collective unconscious of this word that goes from the universal to the personal to build scenes, images of visual poetry, write texts, create choreographies and come up with a play that can be shared with the public on the last day.

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