Goner
Costume for dance
2023
Photography: Camilla Greenwell
︎Review in Springback Magazine, Georgia Howlett
︎Feature in The British Blacklist, Tamika Mitchell
︎Interview in gowithYamo
The Goner is someone who is doomed with no chance of survival—bound to death, a lost and hopeless case.
A live, suspenseful choreography delving into the depths of psychological horror. Exploring alienation, migration, violence and more, it crafts radical visual culture from the marginalised perspective and engages a new Black tradition of horror in live performance.
Past tour dates:
The Yard, London (UK), April 2023
Skopje Museum of Contemporary Arts, Skopje (North Macedonia), June 2023
Dansehallerne, Copenhagen (Denmark), Sep 2023
Theatre in the Mill, Bradford (UK), March 2024
MDT, Stockholm (Sweden), March 2024
ICA, London (UK), April 2024
Cambridge Junction, Cambridge (UK), April 2024
Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham (UK), April 2024
Live Collision, Dublin (Ireland), April 2024
Mayfest, Bristol (UK), May 2024
Gender House Queer Arts Festival, Aarhus (Denmark), May 2024
Audra Festival, Kaunas (Lithuania), June 2024
Upcoming tour dates:
Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, Portland (US), Sep 2024
Abrons Arts Centre, New York City (US), Sep 2024
The Place, London (UK), Sep 2024
Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff (UK), Oct 2024
The costume comes out of a close creative relationship with the choreographer, and utilises their distinct movements as well as the social codes projected onto their body, set design and audience. It plays with desire and fear, attraction and repulsion.
A live, suspenseful choreography delving into the depths of psychological horror. Exploring alienation, migration, violence and more, it crafts radical visual culture from the marginalised perspective and engages a new Black tradition of horror in live performance.
Past tour dates:
The Yard, London (UK), April 2023
Skopje Museum of Contemporary Arts, Skopje (North Macedonia), June 2023
Dansehallerne, Copenhagen (Denmark), Sep 2023
Theatre in the Mill, Bradford (UK), March 2024
MDT, Stockholm (Sweden), March 2024
ICA, London (UK), April 2024
Cambridge Junction, Cambridge (UK), April 2024
Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham (UK), April 2024
Live Collision, Dublin (Ireland), April 2024
Mayfest, Bristol (UK), May 2024
Gender House Queer Arts Festival, Aarhus (Denmark), May 2024
Audra Festival, Kaunas (Lithuania), June 2024
Upcoming tour dates:
Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, Portland (US), Sep 2024
Abrons Arts Centre, New York City (US), Sep 2024
The Place, London (UK), Sep 2024
Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff (UK), Oct 2024
The costume comes out of a close creative relationship with the choreographer, and utilises their distinct movements as well as the social codes projected onto their body, set design and audience. It plays with desire and fear, attraction and repulsion.
Choreography by Malik Nashad Sharpe @marikiscrycrycry
Musical Direction by Tabitha Thorlu-Bengura
Set Design by Felix Villiers
Lighting Design by Barnaby Booth
Rehearsal Direction by Blue Makwana
Costume Design by Erik Annerborn
Costume assistant: Tilde Tutal Gottberg
Costumes’s thank you: Arash Arfazadeh and Andrea Rivera
Project Produced by Michael Kitchin and Eva Steen Nordhagen
Strategic Producing by The Uncultured (Laura Sweeney/Ash Bowmott)
Production Management by James Dawson
Co-commissioned by:
The Yard Theatre (UK), Dansehallerne (DK), MDT (SE), SNIF by Cambridge Junction (UK)
Additional Support by:
Fest en Fest (UK), The Place (UK) @theplacelondon, Portland Institute of Contemporary Art, Creative Exchange Lab, lead support from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (USA) Toronto Community Love-in (CA) , My Wild Flag (SE, Sadler’s Wells (UK), Pavillion K (DK)
Funded by Arts Council England (UK)
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Musical Direction by Tabitha Thorlu-Bengura
Set Design by Felix Villiers
Lighting Design by Barnaby Booth
Rehearsal Direction by Blue Makwana
Costume Design by Erik Annerborn
Costume assistant: Tilde Tutal Gottberg
Costumes’s thank you: Arash Arfazadeh and Andrea Rivera
Project Produced by Michael Kitchin and Eva Steen Nordhagen
Strategic Producing by The Uncultured (Laura Sweeney/Ash Bowmott)
Production Management by James Dawson
Co-commissioned by:
The Yard Theatre (UK), Dansehallerne (DK), MDT (SE), SNIF by Cambridge Junction (UK)
Additional Support by:
Fest en Fest (UK), The Place (UK) @theplacelondon, Portland Institute of Contemporary Art, Creative Exchange Lab, lead support from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (USA) Toronto Community Love-in (CA) , My Wild Flag (SE, Sadler’s Wells (UK), Pavillion K (DK)
Funded by Arts Council England (UK)
︎marikiscrycrycry
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