A Feminine Essence is movement piece exploring the subtle oppression and limitations that affect female spatial engagement, inspired by the lived experience of growing up female in a Western patriarchal society.

Dancer: Emma Wolstenholme Videography: Lauren Cave

“An essential part of the situation of being a woman is that of living the ever-present possibility that one will be gazed upon as a mere body, as shape and flesh that presents itself as the potential object of another subject’s intentions and manipulations, rather than as a living manifestation of action and intention.”

-  Iris Marion Young in Throwing Like a Girl: A Phenomenology of Feminine Body Comportment, Motility, and Spatiality (1980)