In What My Body Can/t Remember, Saleh explores what her body can and can’t remember of her life in Ramallah in 2002 when, living under curfew, she returned to dancing after years of interruption. Working with filmmaker Owa Barua, Saleh recalls the daily gestures of her life exploring her memory of a period when her domestic space was her only site of physical freedom. First commissioned by The Fruitmarket Gallery and Dance International Glasgow in 2019, What My Body Can/t Remember interrogates the retrieval, integrity, and degradation of embodied memory.

Concept and choreography: Farah Saleh

Image & Sound: Owa Barua

Performed by: Farah Saleh and Owa Barua