It was a long and perilous journey. They have braved a passage which thousands so far, who were also on the run and in search of safety, had to pay for with their life.

 

Initiated by the choreographic platform D.ID founded by Liz King, Magdalena Chowaniec and Mani Obeya have created an intense piece together with a group of refugees from Somalia, Côte d Ivoire and Afghanistan about their respective odysseys. What does water signify for them now? Songs, dances and the words that make up their accounts serve the young men to extricate their bodies from the deadly force of the sea

 

Choreography/Direction:Magdalena Chowaniec & Mani Obeya

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Performed by: Yaseen Mohammadi, Muhammad Ahmadi, Hamid Alizada, Roholla Yaqubi, Sidibe Lacine, Hassan Dahir