Marikiscrycrycry

London, UK

Goner

Access notes: Goner contains strong language, flashing lights, haze, verbal references to sex, verbal references to murder, loud sounds including gunshots, sensitive themes and topics, partial nudity, and violence. 

Age recommendation: 16+

DESCRIPTION

The Goner is someone who is doomed with no chance of survival—bound to death, a lost and hopeless case. 

Goner follows this figure on a sensuous, suspense-filled, and fearsome choreographic journey into the depths of their psychological horror. Lightly touching on topics of abuse, Caribbean migration, alienation, belonging, addiction, and violence, Goner utilizes the formal tools of solo authorship and the aesthetics of horror to create radical visual culture from a marginalized perspective, and to tease out and establish a Black tradition of horror for the live context. How do we look at culturally-specific narratives against a backdrop of thrilling, bloody, and psychological horror? 

Who knows

but there will be blood

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Malik Nashad Sharpe, also known as Marikiscrycrycry, is a choreographer and movement director known for his provocative and formally engaging performance works that address themes of violence, alienation, horror, melancholia, and the horizon. He holds a BA in Experimental Dance with highest honors from Williams College and a certificate in Contemporary Dance from Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance, where he won the Simone Michele Prize for Outstanding Choreography. He has received commissions and shown his work at venues and festivals across the UK, Europe, and Canada, and is currently an Associate Artist at The Place, London and a studio resident of Somerset House Studios, London. He has held artistic residencies at Sadler’s Wells, Barbican, Performance Situation Room, Dance4, Duckie, and Tate Modern. In 2019, he was named a Rising Star in Dance by Attitude Magazine and is a member of the Forbes 30 Under 30 Class of 2022, recognized for his unique and pervasive choreographic achievements. He currently lives in London and is a guest professor in dance and performance at the Stockholm University of the Arts in Sweden.

SPONSORSHIP

Funded in part by The Yard Theatre, Dansehallerne, Moderna Dansteatern (MDT), Cambridge Junction, and Arts Council England. 

Supported in part by Fest en Fest, The Place, PICA, Toronto Dance Community Love-In, My Wild Flag, Sadler’s Wells, Watermans Art Centre, Caldera Arts, New Expressive Works, and Live Art Development Agency.