A collaborative experiment by Cumbrian based artists, Rosie Galloway-Smith, Victoria Barbé and Zoë Leigh Gadd.

Debut Performance: 10th May 2025 | at Theatre by the Lake (TBTL) | Open Space 2025

A dancer enters the space – seemingly put together and eager to carry on regardless. Through a poignant mix of imagery, text, expressive movement and gesture we watch the dancer and dress simultaneously unravel, memories come, memories fade, emotions rise, emotions fall, time passes: life goes on, loss in tow.

The loss of a parent is a deeply transformative experience, one that reshapes your sense of self, your relationships, and your view of the world. For artists, this journey is not only intensely personal but often unfolds in the public sphere. Grief can shift and evolve an artist’s relationship with their practice, becoming both a medium of expression and a catalyst for exploring the emotional complexities that it brings to the creative process.

Through collaborative exploration of grief, individual and shared reflection on the recent loss of parental figures, combine dance theatre performance accompanied by a responsive live operatic vocal score, centred on Rosie’s creation of a ‘shrouded’ dress. Combining our distinct creative disciplines we hope to capture an essence of grief and invite the audience on a reflective arc of our journey.