Ellen Furey and Malik Nashad Sharpe were in residence at iC4C in August 2021 developing their latest work Higher Bed Lower Castle.
People ask is it better to have a High or Low Bed?
People also ask what is the importance of a Great Hall in a Castle?
This work sees two artists come together to co-create their second dance work furthering their research into an aesthetics of difference and autonomy.
artists involved
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Ellen Furey
(CA)
Ellen Furey is a contemporary dance artist living and working on Tiohtiá:ke/Mooniyang/Montréal, Canada.
Since 2012, she’s mostly involved in collaborative, discursive processes that insist on a mess of subjectivities. Her work uses potentials of dance virtuosities and performer type showmanship as material for living, oblique rebellion, and debate, entangled with heavy ambiguity. She works with, for, and alongside independent artists including Dana Michel, Malik Nashad Sharpe, Andrew Tay, Christopher Willes, and Simon Portigal and has performed in choreographies by Daniel Léveillé, Frédérick Gravel, Marten Spangberg (SE), Tina Tarpgaard (DE), Sasha Kleinplatz and Clara Furey. Ellen is a 2014 recipient of a DanceWeb scholarship, ImpulsTanz, Vienna, was a part of mobile academy-Berlin’s Copycat Academy 2015, and is currently a part-time, independent student at Concordia University. Her work has been presented in France, Canada, and the UK.
She is currently in creation for two new collaborative works (2022/23). Ellen began multi-year training in both mediumship/psychic development as well as in Conflict Management (Conrad Grebel/University of Waterloo). She is reconfiguring- drawn to finding ways inside and outside of producing art that creativity can live through her to support relating in this world in ways that are renewable and multipurpose. She is artistic advisor at Danse-Cité.
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Malik Nashad Sharpe
Malik Nashad Sharpe (b. 1992, New York) is an artist working with choreography. They create performances that are formally experimental and engaged with the construction of atmosphere, affect, and dramaturgy. Their performances often utilise social themes and topics as portals to unveil and unearth ulterior and the undercurrent perspectives. Often making underneath their alias and aesthetics project marikiscrycrycry, they have been especially concerned with the affective and textural qualities of dance and how it can transform, disarm, and critically reflect upon mourning and melancholia. They are based in London, U.K., frequently performing in theatres, galleries, and festivals across the U.K. and internationally. Their work has been shown in festivals like American Realness (NYC), Fierce Festival (UK), NOW19 (UK), Festival for Alternative Theatrical Expression (HR), Submerge (NYC), and they have been supported by a wider range of venues and institutions like Arts Council England, The Marlborough Theatre, Canada Council for the Arts, a-n, Duckie, ArtsAdmin, Studio 303, New Queers on the Block, Theatre La Chapelle Scenes Contemporains, The Yard Theatre, Chisenhale Dance Space, amongst many others. They have taught workshops at Glasgow School of Art, School of New Dance Development, London Contemporary Dance School, Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, Tate Modern, and others. They are currently Associate Artist at Hackney Showroom Productions, Schools Artist-in-Resident at Tate Britain.
