Lau Nay is a performance that reconstructs places, sensations, and fragments gathered by Alessandro Carboni during a research journey across several cities in Southeast Asia. On stage, the memories of urban spaces—marked by bodies, tensions, and fleeting encounters—emerge through a shifting mass of clothes, rags, and fabrics. These materials function as an archive of impressions, both physical and emotional, embodying the density and fragility of the cities visited. The performer engages in a continuous process of transformation: by wearing, removing, and reshaping the garments, the body becomes a living landscape, at once concealed and revealed. In this fluid interplay, the dancer’s body camouflages, mutates, and reconfigures itself, translating the intangible layers of memory into tangible, spatial presence. The stage thus becomes a metaphorical and psychological territory where fragments of travel are reassembled. Lau Nay forms part of Overlapping Discrete Boundaries, a broader project exploring crossings and thresholds.

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