The film was presented at Festival VideoDanse, Centre Georges Pompidou, in January 2000. Presentations in Portugal at Cinemas King, Teatro do Campo Alegre, Centro de Artes Performativas, Algarve. In 2002 it was broadcast by Muzzik.

"March 31 st , April 1 st , 3 rd and 4 th , I film for several hours. I watch without interruption, sometimes I feel the rhythm of desires that keeps people moving. The movements and emotions on stage offer various levels of reading. Nothing exists before a small gesture that triggers off a long action and involves other participants, nothing steers the audience's attention through a pre-established path. Our gaze is subjected to a process of instant decision making when facing the events on stage."

Luciana Fina (www.lucianafina.net)

Lisbon, 7th International Encounter Dançar o que é nosso - a month of practical 'laboratories' and seminars about interculturalism and the performing arts, organised by Danças na Cidade, and led by anthropologist André Lepecki and invited choreographers and dance teachers.   Fifty-four artists bring their culture, bodies and movements from Indonesia, Burkina Faso, Portugal, Mozambique, South Africa, Great Britain, Brazil, Belgium...

Through performance practices, they question the crystallisation of cultures and the dead-end of non-communication. They try to incorporate different movement experiences. I accompany them, interrogate myself, film and look for images that are theirs.

Luciana Fina (www.lucianafina.net)

“On entering the Mediterranean we always choose a starting point, edge or scene, port or event, navigation or tale. Then, it becomes less important where you started from...”

[P. Matvejevic in “Breviario Mediterraneo”]

Ideas, projects and challenges of an organization financed by the European Community to develop research, creation and circulation of contemporary dance in the Mediterranean region. This documentary accompanies a network of people who collaborate with the Mediterranean Dance Network (DBM – Danse Bassin Méditerranée) during a number of meetings in Istanbul, Tunis, Cagliari and Marseille, exposing desires and expectations at a moment of tension and confrontation in euro-mediterranean relations.

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Can art think and rethink society through its creative practices?

This film is part of a project on intercultural policies and practices in the performative arts (together with the documentary “The Encounter”, 2004).

I am interested in questioning the perspectives of North-South relations and, on a Mediterranean scale, the relations between European, Northafrican and Arab cultures. I direct my attention to them, convinced that experiences from the realm of arts can stimulate our understanding and alternative readings of contemporany reality.

Luciana Fina (www.lucianafina.net)

"It is the interpreters that guide us and through them and their roles in the piece we discover the universe of Camacho. Through interviews held during the rehearsals, this documentary unveils the creation of atmospheres... perspectives and expectations... doubts and certainties... relations and interactions... fragilities and mutations... the choreographer and the group. Hence, the necessity of recording not only the rehearsals, but also the moments before and after. Tension and release. Abandon and giving. Pauses and silences. Togetherness and fun."

Pedro Duarte