Choreography by marikiscrycrycry
Sound Design: Joanna Pope, Yummy Online, JONI
Sound Consultation: Dylan Spencer-Davidson, TAAHLIAH
Dancers: Eve Stainton, Blue Makwana, Gareth Chambers, Malik Nashad Sharpe
Flag Designs: Zeinab Saleh
Lighting and Production Management: Jon Cleveland 
Producer: Laura Sweeney

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)

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