Traveling is always a unique experience. There is never one journey equal to other. It always depends if you go alone, accompanied, if you pick up someone on the way or even if someone picks you up. The point is that each travel is different.
This research and performance are inspired by long distant travels. Nowadays migration is presented as the key to survival in this economical situation that we are facing. Very easily you can find yourself alone wandering through Europe without a destination, with the only object to find a job.
Your academic qualifications are worthless long ago, so now you take any job you can. After years of mind work, we forgot to learn ancient basic tasks that make our bodies mobile.
Now, it’s required to adapt either in field work, construction or others similar very important jobs that were easily discarded in our heads. Education is important, but survival tops it all.
Sometimes “the grass is NOT always greener in the other side”.

The hope of finding something better outside of your home country becomes a reality and a necessity. It’s time to go. People in every country that we pass trough say the same thing. “It’s the crisis” it gives the feeling of not being welcome nowhere. Your backpack becomes an extension of yourself, your fix point in reality, your safety net, protection, pillow and even friend.

“All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

Lia Chamilothori was born in Athens in 1985. She was an acrobatic gymnast at the gymnastics team "Irini Peristeriou". After completing her studies at the Economic University of Athens, she studied dance at the Higher Professional School of Dance "Rallou Manou" (Athens). Since 2009 she works as a dancer in companies such Paracoon dance company, Creo, Transito, La ignorancia as assistant choreographer in Fora etc. At the same time she works as a dance teacher. In 2011 she received a scholarship for technical improvement from the Onassis Foundation in Danscentrum Jette (Brussels).

Sérgio M.P.D.G. Mendes was born in Portugal in 1982. He works as movement director and dance/circus performer. He graduated from Chapito Portugal and E.S.A.C. in Brussels. The town of Brussels has become his home base since 2003. He was a winner of the Internet video contest Move-agains-it 2010. He assists to the project Fibonacci in Barcelona from the Company Seven fingers. Some of his works are “Man Made Manners” and “mendacium mendacio”. Finally, he has filled the role as director/ choreographer in residency at Circus Space, London.

When: Saturday 10/5/2014
Hour: 18.00
Duration: 20’-25’
Free entrance
Call for reservations: 210-9248328

Supported by Espace Catastrophe (BE), CAPa (PT), ISADORA & RAYMOND DUNCAN – CENTRE DE RECHERCHE SUR LA DANSE (GR), Try art cafe (BE), “20 Jeunes chorégraphes pour Bruxelles 2013”, laboratoire de recherche et de création mené par Marie Martinez (BE).