Marikiscrycrycry - Goner

Marikiscrycrycry - Goner

7PM | 8th FEBRUARY 2025 | £8 / £12

@ TRAMWAY
25 Albert Drive, Glasgow, G41 2PE

16+

ACCESS PROVISION: The show is highly visual with minimal text, which will be captioned. Tramway is wheelchair accessible; venue access info here.

CONTENT NOTES: This show contains strong language, flashing lights, verbal references to sex, verbal references to murder, loud sounds including gunshots, sensitive themes and topics, partial nudity and violence. There is haze.

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”I want to know as a choreographer if it is possible to make dance horror, what dance offers the genre of horror, and what the genre of horror offers to the field of dance.”

BUZZCUT presents Goner, a work of Black radical horror from choreographer and movement director Marikiscrycrycry aka Malik Nashad Sharpe.

‘The Goner’ is a doomed and hopeless figure – bound to death with no chance of survival. Sharpe’s suspense-filled, sensuous and fearsome solo performance takes us on a choreographic journey into the psychological depths of this titular character.

Through the formal tools of solo-authorship and the aesthetics of horror, Goner explores themes of abuse, alienation, belonging, addiction, and violence within the culturally specific experiences of Caribbean migration. Creating a work of radical visual culture from the marginalised perspective whilst establishing a Black tradition of horror in the live art context.

Malik Nashad Sharpe is a choreographer and movement director working with dance, dark fantasy, and horror. Creating primarily underneath the alias Marikiscrycrycry, he makes provocative performance works that are formally engaged with the formal construction of affect, atmosphere, and dramaturgy from the marginal perspective. He graduated with a BA in Experimental Dance with highest honours from Williams College, and holds a certificate in Contemporary Dance from Trinity Laban Conservatoire for Music and Dance, where he won the Simone Michele Prize for Outstanding Choreography. He often works with dance as a social art form and relies upon a variety of techniques and practices to articulate his choreographic systems and values.

His works often address violence, alienation, horror, melancholia, belonging, and the horizon and his works have been widely presented across the U.K., Europe, and Canada. He has received commissions for new work from The Yard Theatre (U.K.), Theatre La Chapelle (CA), Festival Trans-Amerique (CA), New Queers on the Block (U.K.), Marlborough Productions (U.K.), Dansehallerne (DK), MDT (SK), Attenborough Centre for Creative Arts (U.K.), Dance4 (U.K.), The Place (U.K.), Theatre in the Mill (U.K.), Fierce Festival (U.K.), CCN Caen (FR), Block Universe (U.K.), Dansehallerne (DK), MDT (SE), Cambridge Junction (U.K.), Roskilde Festival (DK), amongst many others and his work has been shown in venues including at Battersea Arts Centre (U.K.), Montreal arts et interculturels (CA), Birmingham Hippodrome (U.K.), Edison/Betty Nansen Teatret (DK), Pia Bouman at Soctiabank Theatre (CA), University Settlement (USA), Schauspielhaus (AT), Insitute of Contemporary Art (U.K.), and Kampnagel (DE).

CREDITS:

Choreography Malik Nashad Sharpe, Musical Direction Tabitha Thorlu-Bangura, Set Design Felix Villiers, Lighting Design Barnaby Booth, Costume Design Erik Annerborn, Dramaturg Jay Miller, Production Manager Froud, Project Producer Michael Kitchin, Strategic Producers The Uncultured Marketing Secoura Grim, PR Binita Walia, Music Composition and Sound Design Luke Blair, Rehearsal Direction Blue Makwana, Hair ManWigs, Featuring music by Arif Cooper (R.I.P.), De Schuurman, Poundshoppe, and Don Sinini. Voiceover OBOBOB Text Consultancy Travis Alabanza, Promotional Images Ralf Hersborg, Promotional Styling HASZNAT*, Trailer/Short Film Sinisa, Trailer/Image Movement Direction Ethan Samuel Jacobs, Trailer Talent Isabelle Gzowski, Gabriel Chen, Chloe Filani, Iman Villaruel, Shemi Cudjoe. Trailer Sound: ‘Body of Carbon’ by Croation Amor and Varg2TM courtesy of Posh Isolation.

DEVELOPMENT CREDITS:

Co-commissioned by The Yard Theatre (UK), Dansehallerne (DK), MDT (SK), Cambridge Junction (UK) with support from Stobbs New Ideas Fund. Supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England. 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).

This presentation is made possible using funds from Creative Scotland, Arts Council England & the support of Tramway.