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Hosting (This Grief Thing in Nottingham)

We sit in a small circle, holding open a space for each other, creating a deep well for it all to be poured into. We listen and talk and talk and listen and walk out into the world again…

Executive Director Sophie Eustace Says Goodbye To Fevered Sleep After 12 Years

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Nine More Girls

We have our 9 girls and our 5 men too, and soon they’ll come together and the process will begin again. But this time it will be different, like it is every time; because they’ll be bringing their unique bodies and their histories and experiences to this wild, intense process to make this joyful, extraordinary show.

UncategorizedSam Butler1 March 2019featured--our-blog

To Nottingham At Last

What do you have for us Nottingham? What are you holding and who do you tell? I know it’s none of my business - you don’t know me - but, are you grieving?

UncategorizedSam Butler28 February 2019this grief thing featured

This Grief Thing in Nottingham

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A Time for Grief (This Grief Thing in Manchester)

The clock slows and we wait, looking away from one another. Two minutes pass. We breathe. We look into one another’s eyes, suddenly pricked with these unexpected tears, and we talk.

Men & Girls Dance Auditions London, February 2019

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Middlesbrough The Tough

Middlesbrough the tough; the town of slick toil and sometime steel, reeling from the was and the gone and the no longer, and all swollen with its loss.

Uncategorized, This Grief ThingSam Butler20 November 2018this grief thing featured, grief

Let Children Grieve

Let me be sad. Let me be angry. Let me be quiet. Let me shout. Let me play. Let me learn. We need to let children grieve.

Uncategorized, This Grief ThingDavid Harradine10 November 2018grief, featured--our-blogComment

Reflections from Malmo

Here we are together, again, for the first time with this project outside of the UK. Here we are together again, with some new men and new girls. Swedish girls. Girls from Malmo, Skane. Girls we’ve met with through Skanes Dance Theatre.

UncategorizedLuke Pell7 November 2018featured--our-blog

A Space for Grief (This Grief Thing in Preston)

Preston. Lancashire. The River Ribble. Post-industrial city, we’re staying in an apartment on the dock. Sailing boats, the university, the market hall. A Caribbean takeaway, a Brazilian café, a fish and chip shop. We’ve taken over an empty unit in St George’s Shopping Centre. Costa Coffee, M&S, H&M, Holland & Barrett and us.

Uncategorized, This Grief ThingDavid Harradine30 September 2018grief, featured--our-blogComment

Say Something

It’s like this: I had this person in my life, they are/were/ARE part of who I am and now I can’t see/talk/touch them and I miss them, and I feel broken.

I know, that’s really hard to hear and you can’t fix it. I’m not asking you to be superhuman. All I need is the human you to enter my world and try to understand my new reality. I’m in shock/angry/lonely/lost/…/…