What if colonial history never left; it just softened into the everyday? Through a kaleidoscope of movement, sound, and stories, the performers unearth the empire within: where monuments crumble and the tea grows cold, questioning the colonial histories that linger in our gestures, our rituals, and our sense of home.
Between migration and memory, between ritual and resistance, we invite you to sip carefully; The sweetness has a cost…
ARDA Collective: Collaborative Creation
Angie Rottensteiner, Bojan Milosavljević, Chiara Bosco, Deborah Falzon, Elena Brea Sandín, Julienne Schembri, Kjersti Nilsen & Silvia Ribero
Direction: Deborah Falzon & Silvia Ribero
Dramaturgy: Bojan Milosavljević & Elena Brea Sandín
Movement: Julienne Schembri
Scenography & Props: Chiara Bosco
Sound & Music Design: Angie Rottensteiner & Deborah Falzon
Visual Direction: Kjersti Nilsen
Light Design: Mohamed Ali Aguerbi
Performers: Angie Rottensteiner, Chiara Bosco, Elena Brea Sandín, Julienne Schembri & Kjersti Nilsen
Production: Dance Beyond Borders
Creative Producers: Deborah Falzon and Julienne Schembri
Marketing & Communications: Maya Aarohi
Community Engagement: Emilia Figuel
This production forms part of the larger project: Decoloniality: The Story of Us All, a project by the ARDA Collective, produced by Dance Beyond Border, supported by Arts Council Malta and Spazju Kreattiv, with additional support from University of Malta Dance Studies Department, Acción Cultural Español and the patronage of the Embassy of Belgium. Din il-produzzjoni tifforma parti mill-proġett akbar: Decoloniality: The Story of Us All, proġett mill-ARDA Collective, prodott minn Dance Beyond Border, appoġġjat mill-Arts Council Malta u Spazju Kreattiv, b’appoġġ addizzjonali mid-Dipartiment tal-Istudji taż-Żfin tal-Università ta’ Malta, Acción Cultural Español u l-patroċinju tal-Ambaxxata tal-Belġju.
