03 Jun Rachael Young & marikiscrycrycry at Skopje Pride Weekend 2019
9 June (Sunday)
20:00
Youth Cultural Center (MKC)
OUT
Author: Rachael Young, with Dwayne Antony
Performance: Rachael Young and Marikiscrycrycry
OUT is about shape shifting in a bid to fit in; to be black enough, straight enough, Jamaican enough… Challenging homophobia and transphobia within our communities, OUT is a conversation between two bodies; a new live art/dance performance, reclaiming Dancehall and celebrating queerness amongst the bittersweet scent of oranges. Embracing personal, political and cultural dissonance, this defiant act of self-expression smashes through the silence, summoning voices and re-enacting movements in a fierce mash-up of remembrance and reinvention.
Winner: South East Dance ‘A Space to Dance’ Brighton Fringe Award 2017
Nominee: Total Theatre & The Place Award for Dance, Edinburgh Fringe 2017
www.rachaelyoung.net/projects/out
Rachael Young is an award-winning artist whose interdisciplinary performance exists on the boundaries between live art, dance, contemporary theatre and socially engaged practice. Her work creates spaces for intersectional realities to be explored and celebrated and for alternative narratives and forms to evolve and be heard. Rachael’s most recent shows OUT and NIGHTCLUBBING received critical acclaim; with OUT winning the 2017 South East Dance ‘A Space to Dance’ Brighton Fringe Award and gaining a nomination for the ‘Total Theatre & The Place Award for Dance’ at Edinburgh Fringe. She’s currently touring these works nationally and internationally.
Malik Nashad Sharpe (b. 1992, New York) is an artist and choreographer making performances, and occasional other things, under their alias marikiscrycrycry building upon an experimental dance practice thats is concerned with ontological expansion, creating new frameworks for being (Black), utilising the choreographic form as an active tool that gives possibility its material function and subjectivity. Their works are worlds that are dis/ordered by the centring of the marginal knowledge, ulterior logics, and politically resonant modes that problematise and disarm default gazes–They create choreographies that are motorising the conditions necessary to arrive elsewhere, and for the sake of intactible freedom. They are based in London, U.K., frequently performing in theatres, galleries, and festivals across the U.K. and internationally.
