Grief, upheaval & healing animate this powerful work of dance theatre.
As we carry our storylines with us, grief can find home in the body. The Honouring is a powerful attempt to reckon with suicide, death and grieving, diving deep into our inner dimensions where loss has played host; attempting to return to oneself through a revival of ritual, through which we can resuscitate.
The work is a raw and visceral depiction of the grieving process. Through dance, puppetry and physical storytelling, it illuminates where trauma can take root in the body, psyche, and soul.
Jackie Sheppard has here woven a complex, challenging and ultimately transformative investigation that pulls no punches. The Honouring is Jackie’s pathway to realising where healing ceremonies have laid dormant within, to explore a ritual of revival that responds to mass death.