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Fevered Sleep makes performances, installations, films, books and digital art, for adults and for children.

Fearless about experimentation and passionate about research, we develop brave, thought-provoking projects that challenge people to rethink their relationships with each other and with the world. We thrive on risk – in the themes we choose to explore and the forms we choose to work in – and we balance this by working to meticulously high standards with a dynamic team and with a wide range of colla

borators: from world-class artists, expert thinkers and researchers, to members of the public, schoolchildren and our audiences. Our projects appear in very diverse places, across the UK and beyond, from theatres, galleries and cinemas, to parks, beaches and schools, and in the spaces of everyday life: in people’s homes, on phones, online. Whatever we make and wherever it’s experienced, we’re driven by an ambition to present outstanding and transformative art.

26/06/2026

If you happened to miss it, it was our 30th anniversary last week and we still can't believe it 🎉

Alongside our 30 day posts on Instagram, Sam Butler (co-artistic director) released a blog on our website all about the journeys and complexities of nurturing a theatre company alongside a dear friend.

It's not one to miss, check the link in our bio to read for yourself.

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25/06/2026

FEVERED SLEEP IS SEEKING SEVERAL NEW TRUSTEES, INCLUDING A NEW CHAIR, TO JOIN OUR BOARD.

Are you looking for a new opportunity to develop personally and professionally? Are you seeking new skills and experience? Fevered Sleep is seeking trustees to support the executive team and wider board to oversee the strategic health of the organisation. We are looking for people to offer fresh perspectives on the world and our work, and who wish to contribute to the next exciting phase in the company’s evolution. You may or may not have been a trustee before. If you haven’t, we know that it can be a daunting prospect and we will support trustees who are new to the role. This is a voluntary role, and we will pay out of pocket expenses. We wish to address under-representation on our board and are actively seeking applications from D/deaf and disabled people and people of the Global Majority.

The recruitment timeline and process will run as follows:
- 13th July, 11am - deadline for submission of EOI
- Interviews: TBC but potentially Tues 21st July; Weds 22nd July; Tues 4th August.
- 12th August - observation at the board meeting
- w/c 17th August - confirmation of offer to join the board
- August to November ‘26 - handover and induction
- 18th November - new Chair(s) leads the board meeting

To apply, please submit a CV & cover letter via [email protected].

Please see https://www.feveredsleep.co.uk/about-us for more information on our work, our team and our current board. If you would like an informal chat about the role or to discuss access requirements, please contact our Executive Director, Dimity Nicholls on [email protected]

Please see the link in our bio for the trustee information pack and the Chair role description.

17/06/2026

30th Anniversary Series, Day 31: 2026

It’s our 30th birthday!

If you’ve been following this anniversary series, you’ll know that our first ever public performance was at London’s Riverside Studios on the 17th June 1996. And here we are, 30 years later, still experimenting with new ideas, still working out what we’re doing, still full of wild uncertainty but now with the quiet certainty that that is still OK.

For us - Sam and David, co-founders, co-artistic directors - it has been the journey of our lives. And such a privilege and a joy to do that together. And such a privilege and a joy to have found ourselves at the centre of a creative, curious community of artists, collaborators, colleagues, partners, participants, co-creators and audiences. We thank you all, for everything, always.

We’re off to a spa today, because we’re very tired. That’s how we’re celebrating. As you read this we might be in a steam room or plunging into a large wooden barrel full of ice.

And tomorrow we carry on. There is so much more to discover. There is so much more we want to say.

Watch this space.

With love and thanks to our partners and collaborators

Dimity Nicholls
Georgia Jacob

b_k

Ged Boden

… and anyone else we haven’t mentioned. Drop us a comment if you should be on the list!

16/06/2026

30th Anniversary Series, Day 30: 2025

A year of time.

After a final chunk of R&D we all relocated to Hong Kong, to make the first ever version of Time Keeps The Drummer in partnership with the brilliant team at WestK. Ten children speaking with us in Cantonese and English. The peculiar rhythms of directing through interpreters. The dizzying Hong Kong skyline and the forest-covered mountains beyond. The best food we’ve ever had on tour. Five hours of improvised movement, conversation, images, installation, music and light.

We remember an operatic chorus of ghosts.
We remember smoke.
We remember the bafflement of hearing music emanate from a motion-capture drumkit.
We remember sleeping wolves, sleeping dogs, sleeping birds, sleeping fish, a sleeping octopus, sleeping babies.
We remember the mad irony of working an 80-hour week to make a show about productivity and rest.
We remember the flock of flamingoes in the park where we would walk after work, sleeping.

We finally finished post-production on We Are Not Finished. Don’t ever call a project “we are not finished”. We thought it might go on forever.

Time Keeps The Drummer in London (thank you The Place) and in Nottingham (thank you Fabric, thank you Nottdance Festival).

Navigating time and space with more extraordinary children. Discovering together how to improvise a 5-hour show. Inventing new ways to direct in real time; to make a show that is different every time.

Another gentle protest. Another attempt to be quietly subversive. Protesting against time this time.

With love and thanks to our partners and collaborators

Dimity Nicholls
Georgiajacobs
Ellerman Foundation

dance

giannini

… and anyone else we haven’t mentioned. Drop us a comment if you should be on the list!

15/06/2026

30th Anniversary Series, Day 29: 2024

Still editing that film. And more R&D.

Working in London with the beautiful dancer Akshay Sharma, watching him weave time into space and space into time. Then in Leeds with Yorkshire Dance and Leeds Art Gallery and the Company of People, experimenting with durational improvisation, with percussion, with task-based performance for non-professional performers. A 5-hour improvisation after a few days' preparation. They were magnificent.

We’d been working with Performance Research Books along with editors Laura Cull O Maoilearca and Luke Pell and graphic designers Valle Walkley to make a book about Fevered Sleep. Love and Not Knowing had been a labour of love and was finally published this year: a book in which every single piece was co-created.

We went to Barrow-in-Furness in Cumbria, to make another version of Men & Girls Dance. We remember nuclear submarines, wind-blown streets, the warmth of the welcome, the joy again in that process together.

With love and thanks to our partners and collaborators
Dimity Nicholls

Kip Johnson

Jamie McCarthy

Andrés Saenz de Sicilia
Ellerman Foundation

… and anyone else we haven’t mentioned. Drop us a comment if you should be on the list!

14/06/2026

30th Anniversary Series, Day 28: 2023

At the start of the year we made our first trip to Hong Kong to research an idea about time. Working with the amazing team at WestK, we gathered together a group of “time experts” to help us think: a farmer, a ship’s captain, a meteorologist, a watch maker, a palliative care nurse, the person who ran the Hong Kong metro and many, many children.

We were editing the film of We Are Not Finished, cutting together the content from the show that we had filmed, and hours and hours of footage that that group of young people filmed of each other, on their phones, when we weren’t around. Their lives. Their feelings. Their points of view.

And we made a show for Leeds2023: Children’s Day Reimagined, an idea for thousands of children from across Leeds to come together on a single day, to build a protest camp, to raise their voices to the sky (although on the day, the sky was entirely rain), to be seen and to be heard, loudly, spectacularly, together.

And we navigated monumental grief.

With love and thanks to our partners and collaborators

Ellerman Foundation

Bessie Glassup
Amy Thomas
Charlie Fryer
Connie Erksine-Masterton
Lucia Roussounis
Ruby Koopman
Maia Manole
Caitlin Robinson
Anisha Lall
Ishuah Farrell
Joshua Smith

… and anyone else we haven’t mentioned. Drop us a comment if you should be on the list!

13/06/2026

30th Anniversary Series, Day 27: 2022

In 2022 we were fully back in filming mode. Not enough people had seen We Are Not Finished, so we took the content of the show, exploded it, developed it, pulled it apart and pieced it back together again, and placed it out in the streets of London, those same young people dancing and playing and angry and protesting and laughing and searching in public, demanding to be seen.

We remember the grey brutalist tower blocks of Thamesmead. The dizzying highrise of the Trellick Tower. A burned out riverbank next to the Thames, the aftermath of a wildfire in that scorching summer. A house party. And a wolf and a bear fighting over the body of a dead deer, wildness and wilderness, chaos and pain, fear and flight.

And those young people, there on the screens of our editing suite, emanating light.

With love and thanks to our partners and collaborators

Angel Roach
Marcel Winter
Maya Demetriou
Minnie Trottford
Orlando Gangbo
Reggie Roberts
Simeon Ndu-Seaba
Stella Nodine

Zaynah Alomsandy

Andrés Saenz de Sicilia
Shona Phillips
Livvy Lynch

… and anyone else we haven’t mentioned. Drop us a comment if you should be on the list!

12/06/2026

30th Anniversary Series, Day 26: 2021

We were all craving touch.

At the start of the year we made another short film, 8 Tender Solitudes: seven dancers and an octopus; a choreography of hands and sensation. Grief and yearning and loss. Each dancer filmed alone, a micro-bubble in the studio, all distanced, all wanting more.

At the end of the year we made We Are Not Finished, a theatre show performed by thirteen exceptional young people. Their questions, their fears, their hopes, their rage, their demands. Working for the first time with the extraordinary composer Mariam Rezaei.

Tentatively seeking a way through those lockdowns. Reinventing how to make. Nourished and held by the extraordinary possibility of being together again.

We were all craving normality. Whatever that is. Whatever that was.

With love and thanks to our partners and collaborators
Ali Beale

Angel Roach
Marcel Winter
Maya Demetriou
Minnie Trottford
Orlando Gangbo
Reggie Roberts
Simeon Ndu-Seaba
Stella Nodine

Zaynah Alomsandy

Karen Callaghan

… and anyone else we haven’t mentioned. Drop us a comment if you should be on the list!

11/06/2026

30th Anniversary Series, Day 25: 2020

Well, none of us saw THAT coming.

At the very beginning of 2020 we’d taken our interspecies project Sheep Pig Goat to the vet school at the University of Surrey. Exploring interspecies communication in that site of learning. Real cows surrounded by anatomical models of cows. Animals abstracted, reduced to anatomy and function instead of selfhood. We were overwhelmed by grief at the plight of those real animals there in that space.

Then at the beginning of March 2020 we moved from Shoreditch Town Hall to a new home in Bethnal Green, east London. A small 2-up 2-down where we could have an office and a studio and a meeting room and space to work and think and make and dream. Twelve days later the UK went into lockdown. We all packed up our things, said goodbye, and went home.

All around us artists were pivoting to the digital space, finding new skills and resources to carry on making in new Covid-creative ways.

We didn’t. We stopped making. Our families too full of vulnerable people. Our focus totally on keeping them alive. And keeping the company alive, trying to make sure it survived this time of viral fear and uncertainty and restriction.

At the end of the year we started to feel hope, and we worked again with graphic designers Valle Walkley and with the photographer Shingi Rice and made a small newspaper titled Hope Is….

We printed 10,000 copies and had them delivered through the letterboxes of people in our home London borough of Tower Hamlets. We made flyposters that appeared all over town.

Hope is…

… finding the capacity and the desire to make again.

With love and thanks to our partners and collaborators

margarets.house

Sterre Maier
Kip Johnson
Francoise Wemelsfelder
Dimity Nicholls
… and anyone else we haven’t mentioned. Drop us a comment if you should be on the list!

10/06/2026

30th Anniversary Series, Day 24: 2019

2019 was a year of continuing.

We carried on our collaboration with Clifton Green Primary School, digging deeper into the idea of an education built on creativity and critical thinking. We worked with the architect Jake Moulson, exploring the potential to transform an unused hall into a space for this work. It was all very speculative, anathema to the targets and measurables of the curriculum, the brilliant leadership team at the school open to our artists’ uncertainty and commitment to not-knowing as a way of knowing.

More grief in Manchester: another pop-up shop, this time with SICK! Festival. Hundreds more people seeking out a way to grieve together. Intimate conversations. Laughter. Tears. Community. Care.

And quiet R&D for a new project, a collaboration with teenagers to explore their perspectives on the world created for them by the adults who had gone before.

We remember drums and drumming. Phones. Intensity. Hope and hope and hope.

We had no idea what was about to come.

With love and thanks to our partners and collaborators
Dimity Nicholls
Sophie Eustace

… and anyone else we haven’t mentioned. Drop us a comment if you should be on the list!

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Monday	10am - 6pm
Tuesday	10am - 6pm
Wednesday	10am - 6pm
Thursday	10am - 6pm
Friday	10am - 6pm

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442038156430

Website

http://www.feveredsleep.co.uk/

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