7.30pm
A movement ritual of care & resilience.
How has colonialism impacted the care we have received from our elders?
How did we experience their resilience?
What nurturing strategies can we share with each other to help us thrive, in a
mainstream society that seeks to racialise and dehumanise us?
Can we create rituals and spaces to care for ourselves?
Women from the Global Ethnic Majority whose families have been impacted by colonisation share their own histories of care, resilience, legacy, and how these stories live in their bodies. Going beyond everyday storytelling, transforming those energies into a live experience. This performance brings to audiences our latest research and development phase of this project, where we focused on weaving personal storytelling, movement, dramaturgy and community.
CONTENT WARNINGS:
The work deals with social construct of race and colonial histories/troubles.
CREATIVE TEAM:
Fabíola is an interdisciplinary Afro-Portuguese artist based in Liverpool.
With a PhD scholarship in performance and decolonising studies (Liverpool Hope University) she is currently researching performance making as a space where people from the Global Ethnic Majority can gather to centre their stories, be witnessed, and nurtured – collectively creating a space for the ancestors to reverberate through us — pointing us toward the elders we want to become.
Fabiola is the maker of ‘A Home for Grief’, supported by Lancaster Arts, Unity Theatre, Contact Theatre, Glasgow Tramway & Arts Council England.
www.fabiolasantana.co.uk
Jessica Morgado is an emerging dance artists based in Cambridge. As a dancer and international collaborator her works include: WRESTLELADSWRESTLE by Jennifer Jackson Company (Cambridge); Turn 2024: Mother’s, Grandmothers and Their post Colonial Children with Fabiola Santana (Manchester; Company MARRAFA (Brussels); ‘HOME’ by Luís Marrafa at the Westrand – Cultuurcentrum Dilbeek; ‘Rebuild’ by Iolanda Rodrigues and Marina Sacramento (Portugal); ‘Oito’ by Lia Vohlgemuth and Nuno Santos (Portugal).
WilL Dickie is an interdisciplinary artist whose works received nationwide support, touring to 40+ UK venues including Southbank Centre, The Place & In Between Time. His recent show White Sun had its international premier this year in Boorloo (Perth, WA) as part of The Blue Room’s Summer Nights during Perth Fringe Festival. White Sun was first developed with Works Ahead 2020, co-ommissioned/co-produced by hÅb + Contact. Collaborative credits include choreography for Hanna Tuulikki; movement director at Regents Park Open Air Theatre; director of A Home for Grief by Fabiola Santana.
www.willdickie.co.uk
Created and performed by Fabíola Santana
Performed-Devised Jessica Morgado
Directed by WilL Dickie
Producer: Emmy Lahouel
Other creatives will be joining our team as the project keeps developing, we will update their names and contributions as they join.
This project is funded by the Arts Council England through National Lottery Project Grants; made possible by an Artist Residency with Metal Liverpool, and Fabíola being the recipient of the Turn Prize (2024) supported by Company Chameleon, Dance Consortia NW, hÅb + Project Auske. In partnership with the Unity Theatre (Liverpool), Tyn-y-Parc Studio (Wales), and Liverpool Hope University.