Drawing on personal narrative and a family's multi-generational experience of immigration, She But Not Herself explores the curious and intimate experience of belonging and being left out. The piece examines the effects of the transnational movement of peoples on the formation of identity, as represented through the lens, and family history, of a Polish-Italian American immigrant living in Denmark - and her Danish husband.

Through the actual and metaphorical mapping of a life, as well as larger patterns of human migration, She But Not Herself invites us to consider what it means to be "at home". Told through a mix of English and Danish, the work also engages with the central role of language in the identity crisis that often results from immigration. The performance texts come from found material, theory, interviews and original writing in response to Ole Fogh Kirkeby's Hvem Er Jeg? - Om Sjælens Billeder and Sarah Ahmed's Strange Encounters: Embodied Others in Post-Coloniality. 

As the lecture performance develops, connections emerge, theatrical gestures are introduced, and choreographies are assembled, resulting in an auto-fictional narrative about the complexities of migration and the construction of identity, individuals and collectivity.

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