July 10th – 23rd, 2025 Festival d’Avignon, Avignon
October 7th, 2025 La Halle aux Grains, Blois
November 26th – 30th, 2025 Théâtre National, Brussels
December 10th – 20th, 2025 Festival d’Automne, Paris
January 8th – 9th, 2026 Scène Nationale de l’Essonne, Essonne
January 30th – 31st, 2026 Le Volcan, Le Havre
February 3rd – 4th, 2026 TANDEM, Douai
February 10th – 14th, 2026 TNB, Rennes
75 minutes
An Exciting Encounter
One of them creates documentary-inspired theatre, films, and installations. The other is a virtuoso and iconoclastic flamenco dancer. By placing their first names side by side, Mohamed El Khatib and Israel Galván attempt to bridge the gap between their artistic worlds and practices as well as between their personal journeys, through a dialogue across the Mediterranean where differences prove as fruitful as affinities. Together, under the bewildered gaze of their fathers, they search for a common language rooted in the body, its wounds, and its scars. Taking their meeting and the sharing of their intimate, familial, and professional stories as a starting point, they explore – as a duo – the concepts of a living archive and a documentary dance.