sea nonna see teta

Work

A note from Leila: “When asked to share something for a hybrid performance, I chose to share a window into my process of improvising, writing, and reflecting on what personal findings are revealed to me inside Body Watani’s movement practice. I have been engaging with this work for the past few years, often filming only to record a record of researching in a charged environment or context (so this video presentation is simply, that).

Ongoing ruminations of what I learn from embodied research beside the Mediterranean Sea, where my body born from lineages of Palestinian and Sicilian tetas and nonnas feels the strongest sense of home that is inherently fluid and difficult to pin down. And beyond my own body, into the collective memory, and ongoing forces present within that space, in terms of movement, migration, and home searching.”

Sea Nonna See Teta premiered at the Brava Theater in San Francisco, AND virtually (2022), curated and presented by Golden Thread Productions. It was then screened at in Shen Xin’s curation: The Constant Unknown (2022) at the Walker Art Center (MN) and Swiss Institute (NY).