photo by Oscar May

Malik Nashad Sharpe is a choreographer, creative strategist, and movement director working internationally.

Under the alias marikiscrycrycry, he crafts violent, speculative worlds shaped by horror, fantasy, and wrought entertainment. These works often push the body into states of emotional excess and breakdown, staging intensity, distortion, alienation, and control.

His practice treats affect as something engineered, extracted, and consumed—exposing the pressures places on marginal bodies and the aesthetics that surface under the load. The work does not attempt to resolve these conditions, instead sharpening and circulating them.

He moves across dance, theatre, music, and fashion, building physical languages that shift with context but retain a core logic.

His movement language is hybrid—colliding social and commercial dance styles with contemporary techniques and performance practices that distort, exhaust, and collapse the body. It follows a cinematic logic: movement is staged, framed, appearing raw and real.

He also works as a creative strategist, helping to shape projects that confront contemporary identity and its failures.

He is based between London and Bangkok.