HOMESICK - A Street Perofrmance

HOMESICK is a movement performance that examines Malta's disappearing green spaces through the body. Written and directed by Diellza Ilgner and Choreographed by Luke Bugeja Gauci, performed by Carro Sharkey, Diellza Ilgner, Sarah Ng Xi Yan, Luke Bugeja Gauci and Nicole Zammit, the work moves through the emotional landscape of this environmental reality: nostalgia for what's been lost, the claustrophobia of increasing development, and the tension between wanting connection to nature and feeling unable to access it. The soundscape layers field recordings from Malta's remaining natural spaces with construction noise, creating an auditory environment that mirrors the island's transformation. The movement shifts between moments of longing and agitation, tracing the psychological effects of living in a rapidly concretizing landscape. The piece doesn't propose solutions. Instead, it creates space to physically experience what's often discussed only intellectually, the accumulating loss of green space and what that does to us. Towards the end, it gestures toward existing local environmental initiatives, acknowledging the work already happening on the ground.