A 50-minute solo performance that straddles dance, live art, and new classical music composition. A bold, honest, and intimate choreographic meditation on living with chronic pain, the performer embraces and celebrates the realities of her chronic pain body as a site of knowledge. Integrated BSL available.

 

Winner of the International Choreography Award 2023, Festival Quartier Danses, Canada

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Nominated for Birds of Paradise Exceptional Theatre Award 2022, UK
 

Simultaneously abstract and solid... Beautiful (Lyn Gardner)

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★ ★ ★ ★ ★  Exquisite (Young Perspective)

★ ★ ★ ★ Extraordinary (The List)

 

 ★ ★ ★ ★ Striking (Flora Gosling)

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★ ★ ★ ★ Eloquent (Corr Blimey)

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★ ★ ★ ★ Accessibility is woven into the very DNA of the piece' (Neurodiverse Review)

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★ ★ ★ ★ Accessible and affecting (Three Weeks)

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★ ★ ★ ★ Searingly beautiful (The Wee Review)

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The Pain and I performance premiered to critical acclaim in 2022, as part of the Made In Scotland Showcase at the Edinburgh Fringe. The performance has since been presented at The Place (London), Festival Quartier Danses (Montreal, Canada), and toured across Scotland to venues including Tramway, Summerhall, Shetland Arts, Mull Theatre, Heart of Hawick, Cumbernauld and The Beacon.

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