Alle soglie d’Europa: Il Good Chance Theatre e la sperimentazione di linguaggi performativi nei centri di prima accoglienza e nei campi per rifugiati

Abstract

The Good Chance Theatre is a network of international artistes operating in the refugees’ camps and in the Reception Centres for Migrants. In these sorts of laboratories of cosmopolitanism where people from various origins share the ultimate desire to become Europeans, Good Chance Theatre establishes his mobile theatres (geodesic domes) and tries to develop a common language and a shared imagination, using performing arts. Founded in 2015, in the unofficial Calais camp, the Good Chance has developed a network of domes in France and in Great Britain, aiming to increase those spaces of experimentation, where the performative language challenges multiple identities in transition. Hundreds of refugees, artists and volunteers work together daily, to connect peoples, bodies, ideas and narratives. By working at the thresholds of Europe, where new identities are rebuilt or denied, Good Chance Theatre benefits of a privileged viewpoint to look at the continent and foresee its changes. This case study is significant for considering the role, the responsibility and the advantage of being an artist facing mass migration and it offers the possibility to reflect about migrants’ journey (factual or figurative) to reach Europe, and to become new Europeans.