Marikiscrycrycry
GONER
Photo: Daniel Chen
Recommended age limit: 15 years
Fr 15.3.2024, 20:00-21:00, MDT
Sa 16.3.2024, 20:00-21:00, MDT
The Goner is someone who is doomed with no chance of survival—bound to death, a lost and hopeless case.
This work follows this figure on a sensuous, suspense-filled and fearsome choreographic journey into the psychological depths of the Goner’s horror. Lightly touching on the topics of abuse, Caribbean migration, alienation, belonging, addiction, and violence, Goner is utilising the formal tools of solo authorship and the aesthetics of horror to create radical visual culture from the marginalised 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
Marikiscrycrycry presented the group work "He's Dead" at MDT in the autumn of 2022. In the same autumn, they also had a residency at MDT and worked with “The Goner '' and showed an early version of the solo at the My Wild Flag festival in 2022.
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Marikiscrycrycry
Malik Nashad Sharpe is an artist working with choreography. Creating primarily underneath the aliases Marikiscrycrycry and DarkMarik, he creates performances that are formally engaged with the construction of atmosphere, affect, and dramaturgy.
His works have been presented internationally and across contexts including Battersea Arts Centre (UK), ICA (UK), Gessnerallee (CH), The Yard (UK), Betty Nansen (DK), The Place (UK), Schauspielhaus (AT), Kampnagel (DE), Dansehallerne (DK), MAI (CA), Theatre La Chapelle (CA), Rich Mix (UK), Tramway (UK), Theatre in the Mill (UK), Nottingham Contemporary (UK), Quarterhouse Folkestone (UK), Beursshcouwburg (BE), Attenborough Centre for Creative Arts (UK), Cambridge Junction (UK), EWerk (DE), Centre for Human Rights in the Arts (USA), CCA Glasgow (UK), amongst others. His newest work High Bed Lower Castle with Ellen Furey premiered at FTA (CA) in 2022. As a movement director, he has worked on the creative teams of Fairview (Young Vic), The Glow (Royal Court), Two-Character Play (Hampstead Theatre), Effigies of Wickedness (Gate/English National Opera), Scandaltown (Lyric Hammersmith), Closer (Lyric Hammersmith), with an upcoming production of Henry V (Shakespeare’s Globe), and he has held artistic residencies at Sadler’s Wells (UK), Barbican Open Labs (UK), Primary (UK), and CCN Caen (FR).
He has performed and modeled for Telfar SS18 (UK), Charles Jeffrey at London Fashion Week 20 (UK), Vivienne Westwood at Paris Fashion Week AW21-22 (FR), and has been featured in publications including British Vogue, American Vogue, Vogue Polska, Dazed, Dazed Beauty, Crack Magazine, Howlround Theatre Commons, i-D, Nowness, Love Magazine, Bricks, amongst others. He was named by Attitude Magazine as a Rising Star in Dance in 2019, and on the Forbes 30 Under 30 List for his leading contribution to the arts and culture in Europe.
He graduated with a BA in Dance (Highest Honours) from Williams College in 2014, and holds a Diploma in Contemporary Dance from Trinity Laban, where he won the Simone Michelle Award for Outstanding Choreography in 2013. He is currently an Associate Artist at The Place, and a studio resident of Somerset House Studios. He lives in London, UK.
Choreography
Musical Direction
Set Design
Lighting Design
Costume Design
Production Manager
Project Producer
Strategic Producers
Music Composition and Sound Design
Rehearsal Direction
Hair
ManWigs.
Featuring music by
Arif Cooper (R.I.P.), De Schuurman, Poundshoppe, and Don Sinini Voiceover OBOBOB.
Text Consultancy
Promotional Images
Promotional Styling
Co-commissioned by
The Yard Theatre (UK), Dansehallerne (DK), MDT (SK), Cambridge Junction (UK) with support from Stobbs New Ideas Fund.
Additional Support by Fest en Fest (UK), The Place (UK), Portland Institute of Contemporary Art’s Creative Exchange Lab with lead support from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (USA), Toronto Community Love-in (CA), My Wild Flag (SK), Sadler’s Wells (UK), Watermans Arts Centre (UK), Caldera Arts Centre (USA), New Expressive Works (USA) and Live Art Development Agency (UK). Created using public funds from Arts Council England.
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