Work in Progress

Stadium for the Future
​(If I can't dance I don't want to be part of you revolution)*

We're building a stadium for the future - a living stadium conceived, engineered and hand built by and for women.
Not a concrete monolith but a stadium for the future founded to re-imagine environmental recovery and reciprocity, a self-sustaining ecosystem of women's doing, creating, training, playing and manifesting a different world.
​Launched during the 2022 Women's Football Champions and celebrated into existence through women's raves.

Co-ordinated with elder lesbian women and those who have historically pioneered women's spaces- the raves are a site specific reclamation of women's bodies in sites along the canal and waterway networks that connect the sites across the WeEuro locations - ritual dances organised in barns, in carparks, around kitchen tables, in fields and in empty mills. Women taking up space and making visible their essential role in solving the social and environmental challenges we face as a global community. 

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Credits

Commissioned and supported by:
UEFA Women's Euro 2022
Canal & River Trust
Local Authorities - Wigan, Hounslow, Sheffield, Rotherham, Brent, Milton Keynes, Trafford
Arts Council England

*In 1931 Emma Goldman wrote "Living My Life" in which she described an encounter with a young boy who referred to her dancing as unbefitting and dishonorable for someone promoting the anarchist Cause. Goldman stated, "I did not believe that a Cause which stood for a beautiful ideal, for anarchism, for release and freedom from convention and prejudice, should demand the denial of life and joy." She then went on to say, "If I can't dance, I don't want to be part of your revolution." Emma Goldman 1869-1940