Dance performance (65 min)
In collaboration with Bianca Hisse
Performed at Bærum Kulturhus, Jan 2026
Agarrra is a landscape to inhabit, rather than to watch from afar. It unfolds through bodies layered by sediments of movement, tradition, and technique. On stage is four dancers, and each dancer carries a story marked by what they have inherited, learned, and forgotten.
What threads of home do we carry across borders? What is held against, and what must be left behind?
At the center of the work lies one fundamental action: to hold. Through this simple act, personal and collective movement languages find shared pulses and common threads. Each form, holding its own social and political resonance, echoes stories of migration, adaptation, and belonging. Agarrra traces the ever-changing nature of cultural traditions, continually preserved, adapted, and reinvented through diasporic narratives.
The stage is transformed into a circular ground, a shared space for cohabitation where performers and audience exist together. One body made of many, and many bodies living within each single one.
"A language carries the traces of every voice that has spoken it; each accent is a reminder of history, exile, and belonging.”
Salman Rushdie, Imaginary Homelands (1991
Duration: 65 min
By: Laura Cemin, Bianca Hisse
Performers and co-creators: Ornilia Percia Ubisse, Valentina Martinez Mariscal, Jorge Ciprianno, Aiswarya Prathap
Music: Larie
Light Design: Lui L'abbate
Costumes: Aleksandar Protic
