Nur Garabli

Artist-in-residence
Project: Lululeesh

“We aim to perform with our body as a protest.”

Nur Garabli is a Palestinian choreographer, dancer, and artistic director from Yaffa. Her practice weaves together folkloric forms and contemporary expression, creating a unique movement language that bridges past and present. She views the body as an archival and documentary tool, carrying memory, history, and resistance. Her work embodies liberation, feminist narratives, and the continuity of Palestinian cultural heritage.

During Welcome To Our Guesthouse Nur collaborates with Marah Haj Hussein on Lululeesh. In Lululeesh the two artists move through the intimate lineage of grandmother–mother–daughter to reclaim the female body as a site of resilience under occupation. Their starting point is the Zaghrouda - a traditional ululation by women performed in both celebration and mourning. By reimagining this ritual, they explore how ancestral knowledge, inherited gestures and political urgency can meet in embodied protest.

Combining movement, voice, soundscapes and visual symbolism, Lululeesh challenges patriarchal expectations while creating space for collective memory, resistance and female agency.

Concept and performance Marah Haj Hussein & Nur Garabli
Dramaturgy Krystel Khoury
Light design Pol Seif
Music composition Verena Rizzo