BUZZCUT Double Thrills presents: Goner by Marikiscrycrcycry

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.

Access: Captioned   

Audience 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 in the performance.

Recommended for ages 16+

About the artist

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.), 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 James Dawson
Assistant Production Manager Han Sayles
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

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).