Girls Are Awesome Feature and Premiere on Slip Mould Slippery R&D

‘We love the way this project invites us to look within and around ourselves, and consider what’s happening in the environments we enter, occupy and share.’

 

Hunger Magazine Feature on Slip Mould Slippery R&D

‘Entitled Slip Mould Slippery, this collaborative project explores practices for working together ‘in the studio’ and what it now is to make performance for public venues. The duo are collaborating with dance artists Alethia Antonia, Dorna Ashory, Iro Costello, Florence Pearl and Natifah White to tackle themes of bodily autonomy in the context of dance, fashion and public spaces.’

 

Arts Professional Feature ‘Challenging the norms of dance’

‘Grace Nicol wants to redefine how we make dance to support more risky work. The answer, she thinks, lies in greater pastoral care.’

 

Best Dance Short Films To Watch in The Guardian

‘Just two minutes long but a clever setup: director Daniel McKee uses a large rotating mirror to switch our view between two dancers, Theo Canham-Spence and Florence Pearl, as they move in neat yet somehow languorous choreography by Grace Nicol.’

 

Interview on Dance Futures Podcast

‘On this final episode of the current series Ruth talks to choreographer Grace Nicol about why the show mustn’t always go on, how we can create structures of support and care for ourselves and each other, and how there is a place for both slow art and the kind that let’s go of preciousness in order to just...begin....
Grace reminds us to have patience as we negotiate our new relationships to dance and performance in the future.’

 
 
 

Feature Dazed Digital

‘While the reclaiming of the female form has a long-standing history within art, in this post #metoo climate a powerful reclaiming such as this feels even more pertinent.’

 

Feature It's Nice That

‘Grace Nicol’s work . . . finds power within the collective notion of self, body, object and experience.’

 

Interview i-D Magazine

‘One of the voices leading the revolution against gender bias within the performing arts is Grace Nicol who founded the female-led platform Womxn SRSLY. Aiming to champion the work of female choreographers, and more importantly create an autonomous space where female performers (male performers are involved as allied supporters) reclaim autonomy over the way in which their bodies are presented and perceived, the platform highlights the importance of collective effort in instigating significant change.’

 

Interview It's Nice That

‘Set up in August 2017, Womxn SRSLY is a new creative, performance-led platform organised by choreographer Grace Nicol. The underrepresentation and undermining of women in the creative industries is a constant struggle across every discipline of the arts, particularly noticeable to Grace within dance and performance. Consequently, Womxn SRSLY offer support, a network of advice and most importantly a platform for its contributors to do what they want to: perform.’

 
 

Interview Run Riot

‘The rise, and rise and rise of Womxn SRSLY. Grace Nicol is fired up for change. As a choreographer she has been challenging the traditional structures in dance and performance. Her platform Women SRSLY for female identifying makers in the arts is a year-round programme that celebrates, supports and amplifies female voices. She talks to Run-Riot about why this is so important right now.’

 

Plays To See Review Womxn SRSLY

**** 'A feast of female inventiveness'

 

Wonderful World of Dance Review Womxn SRSLY

'It is worth celebrating loudly the 1st birthday of this unique platform for female artists'

 

Dance Tabs Review Womxn SRSLY

'The events produced by this impressive group of women artists, writers and choreographers feel welcoming and inclusive, while challenging identity inequality in performance.'

 

To Do List Review Womxn SRSLY 

'As soon as we entered we could feel the positive vibes and extravagant feminine theme in the venue’ 

 

Interview London Live Womxn SRSLY

Womxn SRSLY London Live Interview April 2018