The Power (of) The Fragile

After being separated from her for several years by increasingly marked borders, dancer and choreographer Mohamed Toukabri invites his mother, Latifa Khamessi, to join him on stage. The space becomes the country where they can meet again and reunite their two cultures, their dance vocabularies, and their lives that have drifted apart. Mother and son meet again, learn about and rediscover each other, and, when words are no longer enough to express parent/child love, their bodies take over. Their dance becomes a caress, caring and attentive. Their skins and identities merge delicately. The demarcation between the two beings and their generations is diluted in a to-and-fro of weights and counterweights, in reference to the heaviness of life, the passage of time, broken ties, distance, and unacknowledged dreams – Khamessi has always dreamed of being a dancer, but her dream was suppressed for years, while Toukabri has made it his profession. Le Pouvoir de la Fragilité is a tender, mischievous portrait of a close relationship, and a manifesto for freedom and the right to go wherever one wants.