A train station

In the spring of 1900, American choreographer Isadora Duncan arrived in the port of Cherbourg with her mother. She was not yet famous, but she would soon become so. At that time, the port welcomed a large number of migrants in transit to the Americas. It was a strange crossroads: millions of Europeans of all origins and social classes dreamed of a better life on the other side of the Atlantic, while Isadora Duncan, an American from the West Coast without a penny to her name, dreamed of a better life in Europe... The transatlantic ferry terminal did not yet exist, and later on, it would be frequented not only by migrants but also by celebrities from around the world, from Charlie Chaplin to Sugar Ray Robinson, Salvador Dalí, William Faulkner, Béla Bartók, Elizabeth Taylor... This is evidenced by the grandiose spaces that have survived the passage of time and the inscriptions, still visible today, written in several languages. The performance will offer a short story, danced and sung, of this mythical place, which has now become a museum without travelers—or rather, a station with mere visitors.