I was in you

In 1965

In Notting Hill Gate

In Murray’s Club in Soho

In the telephone box outside of Buckingham Palace

In the train carriage home

In Leeds City Centre

but you will live in me for far longer

In a space cluttered with discarded costumes and glasses of milk, a single female body dresses, undresses, drinks and dances again and again in a choreographic attempt to embody the lineage of women that brought her into being. Scaffolded by recorded conversations with her mother and grandmother about teenage pregnancy, sleazy night clubs and ballet routines, the performer travels through time in an attempt to grab ahold of the knowledges, retrace the steps and remember the conversations, before I forget them, before you forget me, before we forget any of this ever happened.

You can hear more from Sally about the process behind Mother’s Milk in Romi Sarfarty & Julienne Restall’s interview here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSCPV_OuKwg

This work is available for touring both live and digitally. Sally is hoping to develop this work by connecting with other maternal triads around the world in a wider project of mapping these lineages, inspired by ideas of tracing motherhood in physical spaces as a feminist and political act.