We are neither here nor there, hovering between two languages, two cultures, the past and the future, searching for a space of identity, constantly oscillating between the two poles.
In Tunisian, ‘barrani’ means “the outsider,” literally “the one who comes from outside (el barra),” the one who has embarked on the journey to Europe.
Barrani by the Italian company Corps Citoyen refers to the migration experience of evoking a perception of self in the “double absence” between the place of origin and the place of arrival: the uprooting and the lack of one’s country.
Stability, mobility, what I take with me and what I leave behind. Nostalgia, exile and mother tongue are the colors of a nonlinear time travel, where presence is double and connected, memory a refuge and the body an archive of gestural rituals that constitute home. Barrani is a performance-concert in which dance, poetic word and sound research allow a new writing of the self, between present, past and future, in an intermediate space that exists only during the performance: the space of narration.
Corps Citoyen الجسد المواطن is a collective platform that produces shared and multidisciplinary projects but also individual works of the group’s artist in collaboration with other artists and professionalists. The collective was founded in 2013 in Tunis, where it operated until 2018; since 2018, the collective has been based in Milan. Parallel to its artistic production, since 2020 Corps Citoyen has created the curatorial project Milano Mediterranea.
Performed by: Rabii Brahim, Manuel D’Onofrio
Direction: Anna Serlenga
Dramaturgy: Tolja Djokovic
Choreography and external gaze: Hafiz Dhaou e Aicha M’Barek
Light Design: Manuel D’Onofrio
Music: Manuel D’Onofrio e Rabii Brahim
Text: Tolja Djokovic, Rabii Brahim
Excerpts freely taken from Bayo Akomolafe, Anna Akhmatova, Mahmoud Darwish, Niccolò Machiavelli, Forough Farrokhzad
Costume: Lucia Gallone
Production: Alessandra Di Pilato, CORPS CITOYEN, BASE Milano, Operaestate; Milano Mediterranea with the support of: Archive Milano e Zona K
Dates and times:
12th and 13th of September 2025, 7 PM,
Duration: 50 minutes
Venue: (info coming soon)
Language: the performance is not text-based (the songs are performed in Arabic and Italian, with printed translations in Hungarian and English)
Accessibility:
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Ticketed performance.
Ticket prices:
Full price: 3500 HUF
Discount ticket (students, pensioners): 2500 HUF
Supporter ticket: 6000 HUF
Purchase tickets HERE
Supported by:
SIAE
National Cultural Foundation
In SITU
Creative Europe
A photo and audio recording will be made at the event. By participating in the event, the participant gives his/her consent to the recording and publication of his/her appearance and expressions.