About Hang Time

Hang Time is a choreographic meditation on hanging out and hanging on. Hanging in the air. Hanging in there. Hanging by a thread. Braids hanging from the nape of the neck. Bodies suspended in time. Lives hanging from one another.

Moving between soca and bouyon, séance, ritual and social gathering, choreographer Malik Nashad Sharpe – working under the alias Marikiscrycrycry – creates a charged world where dance, music and haunting collide.

Drawing on Black and Caribbean histories and lived experience, Hang Time explores grief, mental health and vulnerability within masculine communities. Cornrows and braids become symbols of protection and connection, while the performers carry one another, lose one another and push their bodies through states of exhaustion, collapse and endurance.

At its heart, Hang Time asks what holds a community together in moments of vulnerability and loss – and what remains when someone disappears.

Dark, intense and deeply physical, Hang Time brings Marikiscrycrycry's distinctive collision of contemporary dance, social dance, horror and fantasy to The Place for its UK premiere.

It turns out to be the key to one of the strangest, darkest and most affecting dance works I have ever seen.
Sundsvall Tidning on AIR BODY SAD

The element of surprise is alive and well in Goner, a horror-infused choreographic piece that scintillates and fascinates with frightful dexterity.
A Youngish Perspective on Goner

About Marikiscrycrycry

Malik Nashad Sharpe is a choreographer, movement director, and creative strategist working internationally across dance, theatre, film, music, and commercial advertising. Underneath his alias Mariksicrycrycry, his choreographic practice constructs worlds for the stage that draw on horror, dark fantasy, and speculative fiction.

These works often explore affect, embodiment, and the marginal perspective whilst engaging in questions around violence, theoretical nihilism, melancholia, and the cultural logics of entertainment. Alongside this practice, Sharpe works internationally as a movement director in theatre. He develops the physical language of productions from Shakespeare, to contemporary writing and interdisciplinary performance, and has worked at venues like Shakespeare’s Globe, Sadler’s Wells, Young Vic, the Royal Court, Lyric Hammersmith, Hallen am Berghain, the Serpentine, amongst others.

www.maliknashadsharpe.com

Cast & Creatives

Choreography: Malik Nashad Sharpe

Dancers: Alex Moore, Connor Jay, Corlee Haverty, Justin de Luna, Kezi Moustakim, Malik Nashad Sharpe, Robin Dobler

Music Direction: Tabitha Thorlu-Bangura

Composition: Harry MacGibbon

Rehearsal Direction: Blue Makwana

Lighting Design: Barnaby Booth

Production Management: Barnaby Booth and Simon Froud

Dramaturgy: Jay Miller

Costume Design: Erik Annerborn

Costume Assistant: Gabriella Danerlöv