A Bitter Pill
A Bitter Pill is our latest work-in-progress, delving into the complex and contradictory feelings around hormonal contraception.
Commissioned by Back to the Bones Festival, we shared a 15-minute draft of the piece to audiences in June 2026, in Stoke-on-Trent and at our Pelicanniversary 5-Year celebrations in Newcastle.
Watch this space for more developments coming soon!
Images taken by Jenny Harper at Back to the Bones Festival.
Dancers: Ellie Bates & Cara Hogarth
Choreography by Pagan Hunt
Originally created during the 2020 national lockdown for Pagan’s MA Professional Contexts project, A Bitter Pill was originally a short dance theatre film sharing the potential impacts of hormonal contraception on emotional and mental health.
An excerpt of A Bitter Pill was then developed into a duet, and performed for our live-streamed Double Bill, as part of Meta4 Dance Company’s project Natural Theatres in 2021.