Dance: When I Saw the Sea

8 place Oscar Niemeyer, Le Volcan

The spotlights are focused on the bleachers; eyes turn away as the light is so bright. The choreographer Ali Chahrour asks not to look but to listen. Then we hear the three non-professional performers tell their story, children of domestic workers or migrants in Lebanon, kept under the Kafala system, which confiscates bodies, rights, lives. Behind them, the music of Abed Kobeissy and the singing of Lynn Adib accompany them. Then the light tilts. The gaze returns. The bodies appear. They dance. Each gesture becomes a fracture, each …