New Work: Solos and Duets

New Work: Solos and Duets brings together emerging Black artists from the UK and internationally. Each artist presents a bold new work that challenges form, resists respectability and offers fresh vocabularies of movement. Together, they explore rage, ancestry, vulnerability, voice and communal breath charting a course towards new possibilities in dance and performance.

Family Honour

Kwame Asafo-Adeji | Spoken Movement (UK)

Family Honour examines the eponymous concept through the eyes of a young girl trapped in moral codes mandated by her immediate environment, confronting her past ‘sin’ against tradition. Abandoned by her father, she seeks solace from memories resembling her father. Inspired by personal conversations, the performance draws the audience into a world where hip-hop is theatre.

I See You, You See Me

Choreographed by Dak Mashava

Performed by Conn Williams and Theo Canham-Spence (UK)

I See You, You See Me focuses on the dialogue of a queer relationship and the dynamics within it whilst exploring themes of friendship, rivalry, as well as romance and boundaries. The developing work encapsulates the nuances and complexities of navigating relationships, exploring themes of identity, ownership, fetishisation, masculinity and femininity, sexuality, gender expression, all through the lens of being Black and queer.

Unspoken Queens

Choreographed by Charly Mintya

Performed by Claire Nadine Gwem (Cameroon)

Women have always been key players in history, but their contribution has often been erased or minimised. Today, in the face of persistent challenges, it is more important than ever to recall the significant impact that women have made as pioneers and leaders and to build a more just and equitable future.

EN-CORPS

Faustin Arnauld Ntoutoume Ndong (Gabon)

EN-CORPS explores the mobility of the body, its capacity to transform and reinvent itself. EN-CORPS also highlights the constant transformation of the body through its multiple states: fragility and strength, exhaustion and momentum, constraint and liberation. It is a gradual blossoming, a passage from one state to another, a metamorphosis that reveals the infinity of forms and possibilities that the body conceals

Image Credit: I see you, you see me – dak mashava (6)