Along the Moroccan coast, 2000 kilometres of border fences separate thousands of young migrants from a common goal: Spain, the gateway to Europe.

Holed up in the hillside woods, they are on the lookout for the slightest opportunity to attempt an assault on the high barriers and barbed wire. Some will succeed in getting through to the other side, hopefully writing a new chapter... Others will be captured, "caught" by the barriers, those will become the stranded. Stranded for having tried to choose another path than the only one they were given. 

In our neighbourhoods, the failed refer to those who could not or refused to follow the path that has been paved. Young people so full of dreams and possibilities are trapped by a society that has long since forgotten them.

Nadia Beugré has been living in the Figuerolles district of Montpellier for over ten years, she has set up her company there. For more than a decade, she has been observing and talking to the district’s young people, often vulnerable, sometimes lost, and who take her back to her own precarious and fragile adolescence in the Abobo district of Abidjan. Until the encounter that changed everything – with dance, with stage...

How to explore with young people the issues of exclusion: What makes us fail? What are we responsible for? Can we take control of our lives, create our lives as we would create a work of art? Finally, how can we bounce back from the unexpected and be able to seize what life offers us?

By listening to others, to the music of bodies, to space, but also to the invisible, we will learn to confront what was not foreseen or thought of and to allow ourselves to embark on different destinations and re-evaluate our own contexts...

Les Échoué.es? will focus on the participants’ stories, starting from their experiences and contexts.

By learning different performance practices (movement, text, music) through a series of workshops, followed by a creative process in Fall 2024, the participants will be given spaces and tools to express, and indeed transform, the hopes but also the difficulties and dead ends they face on a daily basis.

This distancing through the artistic process will allow them to actively reclaim their environment, their singularity and their place in their neighbourhood, their community and society.

The diversity of trajectories and backgrounds, often ignored or even disregarded, will be celebrated in the studio and on stage.