Have a Safe Travel

Have a Safe Travel tells the story of what could have been an ordinary train ride, until three police officers stopped Eli Mathieu-Bustos and subjected him to his first racial profiling. Immersed in the memory of this event, which is as banal as it is violent, we discover what the first procedures of an oppressive system are all about.  

In this first solo, Eli Mathieu-Bustos was able to transform the systemic violence he and many others have experienced into strong and unique performative material, developed using a technique conceptualised by the artist himself: De Caelo. His practice consists in leaving an important place to emotional intelligence, situated knowledge and improvisation. But it also calls on the tools of astrology, the sky charts and to perceive how the stars can inform us about our bodies. 

Unravelling the layers of the unseen, Have a Safe Travel takes its passengers on a sensitive and gripping trip.  

• Eli Mathieu-Bustos (1998) is a dancer-performer whose bodily virtuosity allows him to transcend his different political identities. Both trained (ISAC) and autodidact, Eli has danced with several choreographers, namely Milø Slayers, Marco Torrice and Marco Arriola. Have a Safe Travel is his first solo, having already met international success.