He’s Dead (2020)

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.

Choreography by marikiscrycrycry

Sound Design: Joanna Pope, Yummy Online, JONI

Sound Consultation: Dylan Spencer-Davidson, TAAHLIAH

Dancers: Eve Stainton, Blue Makwana, Alexander Love, Malik Nashad Sharpe

Flag Designs: Zeinab Saleh

Lighting and Production
Management: Luke Goodlitt
 
Producer: The Uncultured (Laura Sweeney, Dr. Ash Bowmott)

Commissioned by The Yard Theatre, Block Universe, Theatre in the Mill, Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts, Marlborough Pub and Theatre, New Queers on the Block

Further Support by Arts Council England

Runtime: 00:45m

For bookings, tour packs, technical riders, and other pertinent information, please contact Laura Sweeney
(Producer - laura@maliknashadsharpe.com)