Siren Blues

08 Mar 2025

Unity Theatre

SIREN BLUES is a visceral, multisensory journey that amplifies the tremors of immigrant life under the shadow of state power. Through a defiant fusion of resonant soundscapes, fractured narratives, and insurgent movement, this performance dismantles the colonial gaze, transforming the wail of police sirens into a haunting chorus of resistance.

Siren blues refuses catharsis. It leaves you raw, entangled in the electric tension between breath and arrest—a call to dismantle the systems that make sirens sound like funeral bells for the undocumented.

Decolonial Dogs is a performance collective based in Manchester that subvert linear storytelling. The ensemble draws on colonial history, racist present, diasporic rituals and embodied violence. We exist in between the terror of raids and the sly humour of survival by reimagining safety beyond cages.