THIS IS DANCE: FREE(HOLD) by n:u (melissandre varin)

Fri 16th Oct 2026 to Sat 17th Oct 2026, various times

Location: Birmingham

Venue: The Drop Inn Digbeth

World Premiere

FREE(HOLD) is a devotional live artwork at the junction of dance, performance, and ritual. The performance is dedicated to the practice of trying again, and again.

n:u (melissandre varin) gathers artists Ãssia Ghendir, Kelvin Atmadibrata, Sel Kofiga and Echo Morgan, unearthing tensions faced by those settling in the belly of the colonial beast.

Guided by spiritual, material and human encounters, the artists engage with ideas of land ownership, liberation, and the inherited, moving intimately with the ghosts of Empire. FREE(HOLD) reflects on the ways systems of dominance, sick capitalism and accumulation condition and pre-determine our (im)possible relationships to place, land, and belonging.

Fierce says:

“Following an appearance at Tate Britain and a milestone exhibition at Eastside Projects, n:u returns to Fierce with a full-length work. n:u’s performance practice has a distinctive, unmistakable electricity that bounces between body, space, and object. For this Fierce commission, they add four performers to the mix, intensifying these physical, emotional, and psychic sensations and bringing us along for the ride.”