Marikiscrycrycry: Goner

Age: 16+ | Audio Description by Ioan Gwyn | This is a BSL interpreted performance by Ali Gordon.

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 utilises the formal tools of solo authorship and the aesthetics of horror to create radical visual culture from a marginalised perspective, teasing out and establishing 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.

Content warning: This show contains strong language, flashing lights, haze, verbal references to sex, verbal references to murder, loud sounds including gunshots, sensitive themes and topics, partial nudity, violence, and simulated blood.

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Free movement workshop: Lookin’ Like An Icon’
Thursday 17 October, 2-4pm
Open to all

Join Marikiscrycrycry for a dance workshop that explores the commercial and the contemplative, built around the practice of self-actualisation. What does it mean to become iconography? This workshop is open to all skill and experience levels. It will rely on dancing as a meditative practice, and as an engine to feeling fully formed in through movement. Workshop participants can expect to engage with meditative practices, physical training and conditioning, and complex choreographic repertory work. Be your own icon. Inspire the person inside of yourself. Externalise your fears, and let them drip-drip-drip onto the ground. May it nourish your body-mind-soul. You will sweat. And it will feel good.

To book, please contact kit.edwards@chapter.org.