Rachel Rimmer-Pekarczyk- Performance at Back to the Bone Festival

In June 2026, Rachel Rimmer-Piekarczyk performed her commissioned dance piece, In the Midst of Precarity alongside her collaborator, Independent Dance Artist Lisa Kendall. The piece was commissioned by Back to the Bone Festival, which took place at The Ballroom, Stoke-on-Trent. Back to the Bone is a multi-disciplinary art festival (Dance , Theatre , Singing , Spoken words ) that celebrates the power, complexity, and beauty of womanhood in all its forms. The festival aims to confront silences, break taboos, and amplify the voices that are often overlooked or silenced.

Rachel has been invited to develop and perform this work again as part of Future Flares Festival in January 2027, with an accompanying workshop. Bringing some of the most important new voices in contemporary European performance making together in Manchester, Future Flares continues to encourage creative discourse about just how the art-form is responding to our changing world. This festival was curated by Senior Lecturer and Performance Research Group member Neil Mackenzie.

Image credits – Jenny Harper.