DOHG (Death Of a Horse-Girl)

Blending Dance, theatre and fable, DOHG (death of a horse-girl) is a devised comic-tragedy, exploring nostalgia, animality and the horse as a ghost of childhood fantasy. 

A strange figure circles the track, carrying traces of girlhood, intimacy, labour, and control.

DOHG invites you into an absurdist world of play and loss, part bedroom, part stable. 

clip clop 

                slip slop

                                   dot dot dot 

DOHG is born from the friendship and artistic collaboration of co-creators Lucy Eidelson and Lily Harding, and realised alongside a returning team of collaborators including STOZ, Sam Harding and Bridie Noonan. 

Eidelson and Harding first collaborated on Réquiem (2025), a dance-theatre work that sold out its premiere season at the Blackwood Box Theatre, Meat Market. Since then, they have continued to develop a shared performance language grounded in dance while embracing absurdity, theatricality, and the collision of forms. Together, they are interested in creating works that move between dance, theatre, cabaret, text, and visual imagery. 

Lucy Eidelson is a multidisciplinary artist based in Naarm whose work spans dance, theatre and writing. Lucy’s practice draws on folkloric imagery and dreamlike physicality, rendering the body a vessel for ancestral memory and emotional metamorphosis. Eidelson’s process develops a deeply personal perspective outwards into an encounter with collective memory. This is expressed by a social choreography, often drawing from familiar objects and culturally saturated motifs such as beds (Air Hunger, 2023), weetbix (Réquiem, 2025). 

Lily Harding is an artist whose creative output spans music, movement, and creative direction. Lily has collaborated as a choreographer and movement facilitator across music videos, live performance, theatre-making (Requiem, 2025) and community-oriented arts spaces. Drawing on her practice as a registered Dance Movement Therapist (AThR), Lily explores integrative arts, storytelling and systems-informed approaches as a multidisciplinary artist, producer, and facilitator.

Concept: Lucy Eidelson

Created, directed, choreographed: Lily Harding and Lucy Eidelson

Performers: Lucy Eidelson and Timu Raunenheimer

Sound design and composer: Sam Harding

Scenography: STOZ

Shoe design: Tilly Rice

Dramaturgy: Bridie Noonan

Rigger and Installer: Rindi Harradine

Lighting designer and operator: Chiara Wenban

Sound Operator: Shayaki Niranjan

Hero Image Photographer: Darren Gill