What if colonial history never left; it just softened into the everyday?

Through a kaleidoscope of movement, sound, and stories, the performers unearth the empire within: where monuments crumble and the tea grows cold, questioning the colonial histories that linger in our gestures, our rituals, and our sense of home.

Between migration and memory, between ritual and resistance, we invite you to sip carefully; The sweetness has a cost...

Sugar. Stone. Sea. is a multidisciplinary performance developed by the ARDA Collective during a residency produced by Dance Beyond Borders as part of the project: Decoloniality: The Story of Us All. Building on the concept of a Tea Party, this performance work explores how colonial histories persist in contemporary Europe; through everyday rituals, migration, and collective memory. The piece reimagines the tea party as a site of encounter: between sweetness and exploitation, belonging and exclusion. Through movement, sound, and visual imagery, Sugar. Stone. Sea. invites audiences to taste and unlearn how the empire still lingers; in our gestures, in our affections, in our sense of home.It asks a shared question: What's left of me, if I decolonise myself?

Sugar. Stone. Sea is happening this Friday 5th and Saturday 6th December at 8pm Spazju Kreattiv, Valletta, as part of Spazju Kreattiv's 25th Anniversary Programme. Tickets can be purchased from here