GIRLS NIGHT is an outdoor roving dance work that takes place at night in towns/communities.
GIRLS NIGHT explores the fragility and ferocity of teenage girlhood. It follows a single teenage girl as she navigates her town's high street on a Saturday Night. As she moves through the town, what begins as a solitary journey, transforms into a convention-defying dance work between two female dancers as they navigate everything thrilling but also complex about being a young woman out on the town, at night.
The audience observes and then follows alongside - implicating them interestingly into ideas around whether they act as observer, witness, protector, voyeur. The performance culminates in a local public space, (carpark, park, town square) where a group of local teenage girls join the dancers for a high-energy finale.
GIRLS NIGHT celebrates the girls that tell you to go fuck yourself, the angry girls, the loud girls, the ones that dont care what you think, the ones anchored by a loyalty to each other above everything.
GIRLS NIGHT explores the tender, transitional time between girlhood and womanhood and highlights how teenage girls often feel vulnerable or "watched" in public spaces at night. It raises questions around who gets to feel safe outside after dark and the role we all play in dismantling the damaging social scripts that limit the freedom of young women.
GIRLS NIGHT also celebrates the magic of night and foregrounds the time after the sun goes down as a playground of possibility, imagination and fervour.
These girls, these funny, intelligent girls, with all their dreams and strength, with their endless grace and with just how fucking funny they are - reclaiming something, telling us something important as they ask us to witness them as they ARE, not as we perceive them, or perhaps wish them or want them to be.
In each town on our slow touring model, we will work with local young women and girls to participate in the show, making every performance connected to its community.
GIRLS NIGHT is created from Jen Malarkey’s belief there is a lack of professional work for teenage audiences and her wish to address that gap.