Unemployment is rife in Tunisia. Young men there now clean up plastic from the streets and beaches, as a heavily underpaid job. It led theatre-maker Meher Debbich to a surprising insight: 'Old ideas are like plastic. They don't decay. They have to be disposed of, for recycling. Otherwise we will perish in them.'
He tells me about this in the interview linked below. For the Tunisian artist, choreographer and dancer, everything is political, but he also marvels at the way the West views the changes now taking place south of the Mediterranean: 'People ask me how the revolution started, and how we are moving forward with it. I can't do anything with that. Revolutions are there all of a sudden, you can't influence that.'
He prefers to make art, in which his ideas take shape. The piece 'Plastic' premiering during festival Dancing On The Edge is a fine example. Chilling soundscapes, sudden humour, beautiful bodies in sometimes very mundane movements. Promises to be extraordinary.
To be seen at Dancing on the Edge
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