Hold Your Own
2025-Ongoing
Take up space, wherever strength is found
Find strength in stillness
Feel powerful, Be individual. Be a tribe of women.
Make your teenage self proud, stand tall
Roll back the shoulders, don’t hide your chest.
Don’t.
Say no. Say yes to things you want
Know the things you want and grab them
Be wholly you
Be bold
Be certain
Say no, and let it be known
Catch Hold Your Own this Summer at SIRF Platform, SIRF’s work in progress performance opportunity.
Saturday 1st August 2:30pm & 8:00pm
Experience Hold Your Own outdoors, up close and in the round.
Hold Your Own is a new dance work at the early stages of development discovering what it means for women to take up space.
Born out of a frustration around physical limitations for women and the constant fight for equal space to men, Hold Your Own unapologetically gives women a platform to boldly and completely take up space.
Impacted by experience, the work is an ode to our younger, current and future selves, a work of advice and a safe space for exploration and discovery. Through gestural movement, structured material and considered perameters, Hold Your Own will take form involving dance and spoken word, looking at the body as a storage site and a tool for embodiment and power.
How do we as women take up space?
How do we assert ourselves as women?
How do our experiences shape us as women?
Credits:
Concept and Choreography: Eve Walker
Dancer: Maria Giacchetto
Dancer: Jennie Fraser
Dancer: Berta Admetlla
Photographer: Ellen Dixon
Hold Your Own has been supported by a Residency at Dance City Summer 2025 and has been commissioned Dance Edits scratch platform January 2026, and SIRF Summer 2026.
Audience reviews and feedback:
‘Everything comes together, strong theme, choreography, dance, story telling. Very strong work!’
‘really thoughtful and well performed. I loved the attention paid to the little movement, the small and simple, but accurately performed.’
‘It made me happy, interested and very engaged. I wanted more’
Response Poem from Dave Sockett:
‘Standing still, sacred and stalwart,
in their female presence and being;
the three dncers began to move,
with a rhythmic freeing power,
consuming the space with their knowing.
