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After several years of separation, marked by increasingly rigid boundaries, dancer and choreographer Mohamed Toukabri invites his mother, Latifa, to join him on stage. The stage becomes the place where they can be together again and reunite two cultures, two dance languages, two lives that have drifted apart and now meet again, mutually domesticating each other, rediscovering one another.

The Power (of) The Fragile is an encounter between two worlds, two bodies, two spirits. Latifa always dreamed of being a dancer – but her dream had to remain silent for years – while Mohamed made it his profession. The boundaries of their bodies and ages become so blurred that it is difficult to decipher where one ends and the other begins. When words are no longer enough to express filial love, bodies take over. Their dance transforms into caresses, gestures of affection. Their lives, dreams, skin, and identities delicately merge before our eyes, and only time claims its space between mother and son.

The Power (of) The Fragile is a collection of images and reflections on what the relationship between a mother and her son can be like, on what it means to be at home and to leave. It is a performance about movement, bodies and individuals, about the weight of life and what we carry, about being apart or together. It is a tender portrait of an intimate relationship and a manifesto that claims the right to go wherever we want.