Call for participation

Artist in Residence Francesca Zammit is seeking participants for a series of movement workshops exploring grief through the body, as part of her residency with ŻfinMalta National Dance Company. 

Ta’ Ġewwa Barra / Through and Out the Other Side 

A series of movement workshops exploring grief through the body 

Over a series of four workshops, Francesca invites participants to explore how grief lives in our bodies, how it can be transformed, and how dance can be a radical act of joy and resistance. The week will culminate with an informal sharing at ŻfinMalta Studios, offering those in attendance glimpses into the research, conversations, and movement practices that have taken shape.  

Deadline to apply: 19th October 

Dates and Times:  

Saturday 25th October / 10:00-13:00 (workshop) 

Tuesday 28th October / 18:30-20:30 (workshop) 

Friday 31st October / 18:30-20:30 (workshop) 

Saturday 1st November /  09:00-12:00 (workshop + sharing)  

Location: ŻfinMalta Studios 

Further Details

• This week of workshops is led by Francesca Zammit, community artist, activist & filmmaker.

• Participants do not need any experience with movement or dance, just a willingness to listen to your body, and be with others doing the same. 

• These workshops are set up with care and accessibility in mind. If you have a barrier such as transport, lack of childcare options, or if you have a disability (physical or learning disability) and need support, please do reach out and we will try our best to accommodate you and your needs. 

• We seek to carve for ourselves a safe and welcoming space for everyone, if you have questions, please reach out to on francesca.p.zammit@gmail.com 

Theme

We will be working around the topic of grief; how this feels inside our bodies, how it can be externalised, how it is individual and what is the common thread that makes it such a universal experience. Grief can be referring to a loved one that we lost, or versions of ourselves which we are no more, or which we did not become.  

Through guided movement, group exercises, and shared reflection, we’ll explore how grief lives inside us and how it wants to be expressed creating space for listening, release, and transformation, individually and collectively. 

How does grief live in the body? 

How can we move through it and with it?  

Why dance?

“Dance transcends words. It is knowledge and experience embodied. It can be an expression whose meaning is recognised without the need of being explained. We will not be engaging in technique, but we will be building on various tools taught in the study of dance to find our own creativity, expression, as individuals and as a group.”

About Francesca Zammit

“I am a community artist and filmmaker and for the past few years I have been investigating how dance can be a tool for collective change, a vehicle through which to reconnect with our bodies and to frame ourselves as individuals, and within the collective. I have especially been interested in joyful activism and how as an artist I can create a space to experience and model collective  joy; a radical act and most powerful tool with which to fight the defeatism and hopelessness that comes with  the current political turmoil. I have found that this process of creating moments of joy by going through what is holding us back collectively, is akin to my own personal process of dealing with grief after losing my father in 2022. Grief demands of me to go through it in order to come out the otherside, hence the name; Ta’ Ġewwa Barra / Through and out the otherside; the interplay between what happens inside our bodies, and how we externalise it.” 

If you are interested in participation, please apply by filling out the below form.

Deadline to apply: 19th October 2025