He’s Dead
DATES:
Wednesday 14th, Thursday 15th and Friday 16th September 2022 – MDT – Stockholm, Sweden
https://mdtsthlm.se/program/21470/
Created by: Marikiscrycrycry
https://maliknashadsharpe.com/
He’s Dead is a dark fantasy choreography that engages with the question ‘Was Tupac depressed?’ This question cannot be answered and so this conceptual group work uses dance, text, live action, and sound, at the juncture of darker schemas, atmospheres, and dramaturgies in order to shed tears for the things that we cannot unearth. Moving beyond the social framework of hope, He’s Dead works with undercurrent modes of meaning-production, utilising choreography as a tool and formal force for interrogating, in this case, im/possibility. The work proliferates marginal identifications and melancholic subjectivities as both a fantasy framework and as practises against dehumanisation.
Image by: Elise Rose
Dancers left to right: Blue Makwana, Eve Stainton, Malik Nashad Sharpe, Gareth Chambers
MANDELA
DATES:
November 2022 – February 2023 – Young Vic Theatre – London
https://www.youngvic.org/whats-on/mandela
Director: Schele Williams
Book by: Laiona Michelle
Choreographer: Gregory Maqoma
BLUE MAKWANA 