Ni aqui ni alli (Neither here nor there) / Compañía Pepa Molina
Milan, Italy
14 Jul '10
Without a certain path, passing days, routes, upsets. Restlessness, like dust that is left behind in the buckle of hunger. Knowing where and what you have come from, and although it is from a poor land, never changing it for another.
The immigrant is the same not matter where they may be. The journey one embarks on is not always the one achieved. Working with other’s spare parts such as foreign language and timetables. Removing thorn after thorn and finding ones own ...
Not being here or there. Not to be. Not doing or stopping to think, learning to suffer in a foreign language, even if the pain is without principle or sold for forty cents worth. Walking, working, returning, tucking in, restless sleepers, awakening awake, walking, working, returning... the same yesterday as tomorrow, in Tokyo and in Buenos Aires, in New York and in Madrid.
One does not frequent distances for the sake of it. Necessity and resignation are inseparable; they have stale bread and moist pride. To migrate is to leave behind, save losses, portraits, not liking one, being in all places and in none, meeting the endorsement of mystery, the boy who plays without joy and all the variables of exile.
From here to there, one who immigrates with hunger and dreams knows that they will do it again if necessary, for one can change their destiny but not their heritage.
Background Information
“Ni aquí ni allí” is a new production by Pepa Molina debuted on the 12th of August, 2009 at the Teatro Pradillo in Madrid in the series of “La otra mirada del Flamenco” in the programme of the summer festival of the city of Madrid.
The show narrates a story of immigration. Two individuals in 1960’s Spain. Paco embarks on a journey to Japan to process tuna and Lola goes to New York to forge a career as a singer. These two characters with parallel stories and identities cross paths on a plane, on the journey they experience a myriad of feelings of fear, melancholy and anxiety.
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