They enter the stage jogging, like football players taking the field before a match. French director Mohamed El Khatib, sporty dressed in blue shorts and yellow t-shirt with ”Tangier – Morocco” printed on it. And Spanish flamenco star Israel Galvàn, in a light blue djellaba, which is a gift from Mohamed’s moroccan father. They once dreamed of becoming football stars, and Mohamed got quite close, but now performing arts is their field.
Israel & Mohamed is a title that automatically may induce some prejudiced expectations. Which of course is intentional. Their names provide a rewarding entry for this personal show where cultural, ethnical and artistic differences and similarities meet, mix and merge, in a way that is exactly what the world needs right now, in this tensed, polarized and ...
