by Pablo Girolami
with Moira Lafosse, Shani Hadashi, Sara Ariotti, Lou Thabart
an IVONA production
Just think of starlings, flamingos, salmon, wildebeest, monarch butterflies, Christmas Island crabs.
Animal migration has fascinated humans for millennia. And for good reason: some of the most astonishing feats of endurance are performed by long-distance migrants, such as the nine-day, non-stop flight of the black-tailed godwit across the Pacific Ocean.
In Migration, the group of dancers is guided by a series of “tasks” that lead them to move through space
and to migrate, not only with the aim of traveling to a more fertile land, but also of strengthening the
bonds in the community they live in.