Written in Cloth

Inspired by the weaving women of Greek Mythology. Defined by patience, craft and quiet power, Written In Cloth shares the stories of Ariadne, Arachne, Athena, Philomela, and Procne; women who used weaving to find agency within their fates.

Three dancers and three musicians move through these stories and through the performance space itself, blending in and out of character to draw a thread between myth and today.

Whether you know these myths inside out or are meeting these tales for the first time, we’re creating space for you. Rather than treating these women as footnotes in someone else’s odyssey, we give them the stage, and the audience journeys with them.

With a mix of reality and fiction, the performance finds each story through movement, music, and voice. It expresses how narrative can live beyond the written word, in the same way stories across many cultures have long been carried through dance, song, and cloth.

Producer – 24 Carrot Productions + Hayley Roe
Artistic vision & choreographer – Hayley Roe
Assistant choreographer – Caroline Ellis
Composer & Lead Musician – Lore Burns
Performers & creative input – Sarah Sazon, Rhiana Katz, Rache Mackie, Rosie Breet, Claudia Kuner, Lore Burns

What to expect

The show will run for just under an hour and you will be guided to journey through the space with the performers. Chances to sit or rest on walls will be available.

Audience note

Depictions of violence + tension through movement and sound. Some loud noise.

About

Hayley Roe (she/her) is a contemporary dance artist and maker based in Naarm (Melbourne). Her work lives in the space between movement, place, and story. She uses somatic and observational practices to layer bodies, information, and texture into the spaces they inhabit. She’s drawn to patient, craft-led ways of making, and to finding new ways of bringing audiences into work that might otherwise feel out of reach.

Produced and funded by 24 Carrot Productions. Supported by The Space Dance & Arts Centre.