Ragunasi is a word play that takes the old italian way of saying “it gathers” (si raguna) and twists the order so that the reflexive pronoun comes to the end and is included in the verb.

Ragunasi is solo based on an improvisation score and becomes a reconnaissance of the relationship between dancing and remembering.

Being a solo on stage, Ragunasi is rehearsed and researched with groups of peers through memory scores for dancing.
Jaleh Negari has composed the musical score as a pulse of causes to transform what keeps on coming.




Ragunasi is an improvised choreography in corridors of rehearsed sightlines and proven speaking directions in the memories of lived life. The dancer is moving here in these corridors with all her dancing bodies - along the open windows - behind the back of memory.
She repeatedly turns the time order of dancing and remembering forward and back, thus dancing the imaginary forth:

Say we are waiting here, in one of these corridors, waiting for a memory to take place.

A memory of walking through the door to visit the dead.

Say we move, through another corridor, towards the street, trying to recall a memory of being lifted off the concrete pavement into an embrace.

Say we have a preconceived “memory” of the experience of someone else.

Say we didn't remember any of these.

Premiere at Mayehm in Copenhagen in May 2023

Dance and choreography: Alice Martucci

Music: Jaleh Negari

Link to video documentation:
https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/963036846