SOFTLAMP.autonomies is a dance co-created by Malik Nashad Sharpe (aka marikiscrycrycry) and Ellen Furey where their concurrent solo practices collide, creating new textures and embodiments. Pivoting towards a pluralist aesthetics, suggesting possibilities beyond authoritarian and coercive visions, SOFTLAMP.autonomies is a repurposed slogan on-top of the abandoned office with a flickering light, deep in the deep blue hegemonic push, trying to believe.
The performance creates a powerful and cohesive affective field that nonetheless permits a wide variety of responses to coexist: delight, stupor, impatience, awe, reverie, and, for me, a moment of pure adrenalized thrill. – Philip Gates, Contemporary Performance (New York)
Credits: Co-creation and performance by Ellen Furey + Malik Nashad Sharpe. Lighting design by Paul Chambers. Music “Pillen” by Yung Hurn, looped by Christopher Willes. Dramaturgy by Dana Michel. Promo photos by Kinga Michalska. Photos above by Stillmotion at Tramway, Glasgow, 2019.
Production by Ellen Furey and Malik Nashad Sharpe. Executive production by DLD - Daniel Léveillé Danse. Development- DLD - Daniel Léveillé Danse, Marie-Andrée Gougeon.
Creative Residencies: Studio 303 (Montréal) + La Chapelle Scènes Contemporaines (Montréal) + MAI (Montréal) + Chisenhale Dance Space (London). Financial support by Conseil des arts du Canada.
