Mise-en-Crise (2022)

From Night, to Sunrise, to Day, to Night, Mise-en-Crise relies upon a documentary-style framework to follow and visiblise the formal construction of atmosphere and persona. By materialising an aesthetics that is admittedly not-here, unknown, joyous, flamboyant, gestural, defiant and even ritualistic, Mise-en-Crise is making an attempt to create conditional desires for an unspoken and untold Freedom and Fantasy for the marginalised subject. Dancing on top of the vortex of a crafted, apocalyptic visual and subtextural narrative that doesn't give into its own fatalism, yet ruminates on the question, ‘And what to be thrown into crisis?’ We create the possibility of Hope from Nothing. Even if it is unknown. Even if it remains far out on the horizon.

Choreography by Marikiscrycrycry @marikiscrycrycry

Directed & Edited by Elena Isolini @elenaisolini

Dancers

Malik Nashad Sharpe @marikiscrycrycry
Honey Makwana @honeymakwana._
Ethan Samuel Jacobs @ethansamueljacobs
Blue Makwana @bluemakwana

Performers/Extras
Ruka Johnson @rukajohnson
Yanaboth @yanaboth
Cosha @cosha
Bianca Scout @bianca_scout
Erica da Silva @eridalatina
Felix Villiers @catalogue_crepes

Sound
Sodacheeks @sodacheeks
Kizis @kizistibik

Sound Design
Elena Isolini @elenaisolini

Sound Mix
Bianca Scout @bianca_scout

Hair
Sam Koroma @romansam
ManWigs @manwigs

Makeup
Umber Ghauri @umberghauri

Additional Footage
Leo Douglas-Morris @leodougiemo
James St Findlay @perfect.girlfriend
Min Bow @minbow_
Florence Main @focm_studio

Supported by Center for Human Rights in the Arts and Bard College

Additional Support by SET Woolwich