That Thing and Night Terrors

Strange occurrences at nighttime, listening houses, dancing illness and otherworldly portals… welcome to THE HAUNTED.

Join DASH online for Joanna Holland’s THE HAUNTED – a showcase of works by dance artist Lucy Clark and writer Alice Vernon:

That Thing – dance artist Lucy Clark’s candid and interdisciplinary performance which exposes the reality of hidden disability.

Night Terrors – writer Alice Vernon will share her lived experience of parasomnias by reading extracts from her debut book, Night Terrors: Troubled Sleep and the Stories We Tell About It (2022, Icon Books)

After the performances, DASH’s Executive Director Peter Bonnell will chair an in-conversation with Joanna Holland, Lucy Clark and Alice Vernon discussing their work, wider themes, and inviting audience questions.

THE HAUNTED is a year-long programme, devised by Joanna, which offers insights into what it feels like emotionally to be haunted. Haunted by bodies, haunted by sickness, haunted by dreams, it shares how people with chronic illness and encountering parasomnia undergo a change in their experience of space and time.

Female-led narratives by Disabled and non-Disabled artists share what it’s like to exist in an ever-shifting, ‘in between’ space. Performances invite you into the eerie, surreal and uncanny space of the liminal.

That Thing and Night Terrors is presented by DASH and funded by Arts Council England.

Code of Conduct

Please read DASH's digital code of conduct (link here) which will inform you about guidelines for the Zoom. Please read our code of conduct for participating in any public or closed online activity hosted by DASH. The Digital Code of Conduct for online events was a template provided by Primary.

By attending the event That Thing and Night Terrors, you have agreed to adhere to what is outlined in ‘DASH’s Digital Code of Conduct’.

Access Information

· This session will take place online, via Zoom

· Closed captions and a live transcript will be available during the event

· There will be BSL interpretation during the event

Please contact info@dasharts.org with any queries or access requirements.

Content warning

THE HAUNTED is for ages 14+. It shares a stark and emotional view of chronic illness with themes of horror, pain, nightmares, death and visions. That Thing by Lucy Clark also has a visual which may induce motion sickness. This lasts for a few minutes.

Production credits

That Thing:

Visuals by DANI&TING with sound design by Philip Kinshuck

Image credit: Lucy Clark performs That Thing © DANI&TING

Image Description: A figure wearing dark green t-shirt and light green trousers is shown kneeling down with their right arm outstretched and their back to us concealing their face. They are shown on a theatrical stage illuminated by a spotlight overhead.