THE NET WE CARRY - WAVU TULIOBEBA

CREATION 2026, 50 MINUTES

The Net We Carry - Wavu Tuliobeba is a multidisciplinary dance performance that traces how the body remembers the past and carries memories of loss, joy and wounds. Some memories fade, while others remain heavy, returning through movement, breath, and silence. When pain is not fully held, understood, or released, it becomes a cry or rage the body still carries. 

The performance explores the invisible burdens we carry through our memories, experiences, and responsibilities, and how they shape identity, relationships, and presence in the world. It invites audiences to face life in societies marked by unresolved histories.

The performers ask: What do we carry that was never chosen, never spoken, and never fully released? Their bodies trace what words cannot and movements become a pathway of memory and reflection. Through dance, voice, text, colour, and music, a large net hangs above the stage as a symbolic presence, while colours painted on the performers’ bodies reveal memory as something shared, alive, and physical.

Creative Team 

Directed and performed by: Tadhi Alawi in collaboration with Samwel Japhet 

Music composition: Shabani Mugado 

Photography and Video: Jimmy Mathias - Eye Film

Production: Nantea Dance Company

With support of the international artist residency "Frankfurt Moves!", a 

scholarship programme by the KfW Stiftung in cooperation with the 

Frankfurt LAB.