photo © University of derby 2021

I am falling in and out of what we used to be. This change is permanent you see, who knew we could be this way, together yet separate. Like a bird singing softly as it perches outside my window. But wait...I am dancing in the kitchen late at night secretly so no one can see me. I am free in a way I could never have been before. You are calling me, calling me, calling me, calling me and I don't answer. I pretend I can't hear you anymore like when I was 5 and lied to the hearing specialists because I wanted it to be my secret. I used to pretend I couldn't hear them when secretly I had gone into my own world. My body remained on the earth but I, the real me was somewhere else. 

A solo performance using text, movement, and audio. Fleeing her homeland Salah is searching for a new beginning. 
Written and devised by Lauren Hart 

Wednesday 23rd June 2021
7pm 
Deda, 19 Chapel St, Derby, DE1 3GU 

Special thanks to Laboratorium Pieśni, Keith Kenniff, Nessi Gomes and Irene Cara for your wonderful music.