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
Hold Your Own is a new dance work at the early stages of development. Building from choreographic interest in the Body as Archive, Hold Your Own safely explores negative memories of touch on the body and how this might move us. Impacted by experience, the work is an ode to a younger self, 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 the form of a film 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.
