ROVER | Roshanak Morrowatian

In the dance performance Alphabets of Flesh, choreographer and dancer Roshanak Morrowatian makes tangible what it is like to be a body in diaspora. Together with dancer Mami Izumi, she depicts the fragmented experience of time and space of people who have left their homeland. The here and there and the now and then merge into memories and dreams.

What remains of your origins when you are displaced? Which experiences, even from generations before, are stored in your body?

In a sensory journey through movements and images of the diaspora, Morrowatian searches for the feeling of home. Where and with whom is home? Can your body be your home? Do you need the past to define the now?

Through dance, language, music and video art, Alphabets of Flesh creates a temporary (t)home where differences are embraced and uprooting is a source of strength.