From our audiences :

“Thank you for speaking up - your piece inspired and reminded me that I don’t want to keep quiet about my own experience and the daily experience of women.”

Awards & Comissions

  • 2026 Commission to create a dance performance at Bangalore International Centre, India

  • 2026 Commission to create a dance performance for Dance Bridges Festival, Kolkata, India

  • 2025 Selected to choreograph for the Slow Fashion Week, Marseille, France Collection by Jade Tekhil

  • 2025 Commission to create a dance performance at Arbol Torcido, Mexico

  • 2024 Winner of the Chair Bursary Brighton Fringe for performers of the Global Majority

  • 2024 Arts Council England Project Grant to develop ‘I Have a Bruise’

  • 2024 Awarded by Theatre Performance for the Lauren Varnfield Foundation

  • 2024 Abderrrahim Crickmay Charitable Settlement to tour ‘I Have a Bruise’

  • 2023 Selected by Helen Parlour “Motus Dance” to perform at Jump Start, a festival that highlights emerging female choreographers

  • 2023 Arts Council England Project Grant to develop ‘I Have a Bruise’

  • 2022 Won an Residency at Ugly Duck to develop ‘I Have a Bruise’

  • 2021 Funded by Near Neighbour to program a series of creative workshop for women and trans women, Centre 151, London

  • 2021 Won a residency and mentoring program at Academy Mews to develop ‘I Have a Bruise’, London

  • 2021 DYCP Arts Council England for WomanEwer’s Artistic Direction

  • 2021 Selected to screen ‘WomanEwer’ at DISRUPT 2021, Barbican Centre, London

  • 2021 Commission to create a short film about violence against women during the lockdown ‘WomanEwer’, The Guildhall School of Music and Dance, London

Venues

  • The Courtyard Theatre

  • The Place Theatre

  • Colchester Art Centre

  • Fabrica

  • Sheffield university

  • Canterbury Christchurch university

  • Bridport Art Centre

  • Centre 151

  • Rose Lipman Building

  • St Margaret’s House

  • Richmix

  • Courtyard Theatre

  • The Halley

Festivals

  • WOW festival Rotherham

  • Slow Fashion Week Marseille

  • Brighton Fringe

  • Festival d’Aurillac

  • Hidden Riverside Festival

  • Jump Start Motus

Partners

  • Sydney de Haan Centre for Arts and Health

  • Mill Co.

  • Rape Crisis England

  • Arts Council England

  • East Midlands Dance Artist Network (EMDAN)

  • MK ACT

  • MOTUS

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Reviews

“They are loud, they are proud, and they will not be silenced, promoting love for yourself, for each other, and helping each other to heal, whilst welcoming women of all diasporas and experiences to heal with them...” Click here for full review by Khalia Willet

“For many women silenced by their terrible experiences, J’ai un Bleu provides an opportunity for these voices to be heard and amplified. It’s impossible not to be moved by J’ai un Bleu…” Click here for full review by Dance Art Journal

“The barrier of silence broke with the whipping of their clothes and hair, breathy yet bound, their gestures wound up yet wild…” Click here for full review by Dance Art Journal

"Work like WOMANEWER’s is needed as it breaches many barriers, questions and doesn’t avoid difficult conversations; rather thrusts upon you how the female condition has been abused, violated, mistreated and objectified for decades…" Click here for full review by Natasha Higdon, Brighton Fringe

“I wanted to cry, shout, hug, say no with you.”

— audience feedback