Dance Work

Girl Swarm (2019)

Girl Swarm was a feminist dance-theatre performance exploring girlhood, digital culture and the complex realities of growing up online. Combining movement, text and visual imagery, the work examined how young women construct identity through social media while navigating misogyny, surveillance and the pressures of self-representation.

Drawing on post-internet culture, the performance explored the tensions between empowerment and vulnerability, asking how online spaces can foster both connection and exclusion. Through a playful yet critical lens, Girl Swarm considered contemporary forms of sisterhood, collective resistance and the ways young women create meaning and community in digital environments.

Supported by Arts Council England, the project brought together my interests in feminism, embodiment and cultural critique, using performance as a way to interrogate the social and political forces shaping women’s lives. The work formed part of my practice-based doctoral research and contributed to an ongoing artistic enquiry into gender, identity and alternative ways of knowing and being.

Performed by: Aysha Chamberlain, China Fish and Sophie Northmore.

Sound Design: Chris Littlewood

Photos: Paul White