Papers

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), Young Cheong (Projection Director); Gus Ford (Cameraman, DP); Hussein Smko (Choreography); Irina Patkanian (Filmmaker), Music Director (Stacy Kovacs) Drum Line (Fogo Azul), Actors

In dark times, light can shed some hope and a promise of a better world.  For refugees, the light at the end of the tunnel is the papers they are endlessly waiting for, the papers that will deliver the pursuit of happiness in the land of the free.  For us, already granted with a passport, the faces of refugees and immigrants projected on the buildings of our democracies will be that light, reminding us of our obligations to protect, to prove Human Rights is not just a declaration but a beacon in the country created by a shining pot of immigrants. In the light of the projection, a dance will emerge, accompanied by live music, turning away from a “political or activist” demonstration, but rather create a theater of hope, not made of slogans but poetry and music.

Supported by FACE Contemporary Theater, a program of Villa Albertine and FACE Foundation, in partnership with the French Embassy in the United States; and PSC-CUNY Research Award Program