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Malik Nashad Sharpe - Goner

Wed 02 Apr 2025 8:00PM

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

Additional information

Age recommendation: 16+

Program

Co-commissioned by The Yard Theatre (UK), Dansehallerne (DK), MDT (SK) and 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).

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

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