Nur Garabli

Artist-in-residence
Project: Lululeesh (working title)

“I re-imagine as resistance by holding space for Arab women to cherish their being through dance.”

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.

In this research, the two artists move through the intimate lineage of grandmother–mother–daughter to reclaim the female body as a site of resilience under occupation. They explore how ancestral knowledge, inherited gestures, and political realities are re-embodied and redefined through their meeting.

Their starting point is their encounter: a dialogue about the archives inscribed in their bodies—bodies that have absorbed Western—so-called universal—vocabularies while inheriting gestures from silenced histories passed down through generations of women. Can we force the body not to remember? What do we choose to unlearn? 

“Together, we hope a new body language to be born. A language through which our bodies feel connected and empowered.“ 

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