A Swiss-Danish family travels to Sicily. They visit a house in the Sicilian mountains called Mondo Nuevo. This is the provisional home of nine Nigerian men, who are recovering from a boat trip and waiting for further travel documents. The north-European guests and the inhabitants of Mondo Nuevo exchange songs for songs, stories for stories and establish temporary friendship. Time is killed with ping-pong, the blonde child plays with a flip flop.
EXODUS is a performance concert by and with family Liebmann-Schmidt. Their tale of the new Europeans deals with concrete encounters, and stories and songs exchanged between travellers from North and South, yet composes these elements into a fiction that reaches far beyond documentary. Inspired by medieval tradition, the tale is sung on the melody of the Danish ballad “Kongebørnene”, and refers to a valley on the other side of the mountains – a place so far away that the audience has to trust what they are told.
In coproduction with Sort/Hvid Kopenhagen, Vierte Welt Berlin, Danish Arts Foundation, Skogen Göteborg, Rote Fabrik Zürich and NORDWIND. Funded by Hauptstadtkulturfonds
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