1 – 16 June
Presentation 13 June |  20:00 | Check Facebook
Movement Labs 1 – 9 June | 9:30 – 11:30 | Check Facebook

How can tangentiality propose new and politically subversive ways of working?

About the Residency
“SAD KING” is a new solo work that Malik has been creating under the mentorship of NYC choreographer Tere O’Connor, where he became interested in replacing/removing source material as a praxis for working politically. By brashly permitting tangentiality, this piece establishes thought and theory as choreographic form, while removing its materiality away from its source image in order to suss out radical subterranean politics. “SAD KING” nevertheless moves closer to the underground depths and complexities of a certain politics and does so in order to theorize with the body for a discernible political praxis.

Movement Labs – Tangential Movement (Contemporary Technique)
Tangential Movement is about finding new ways to move by permitting the body to move and stretch away from its source materiality. This class is about testing the extents of physicality without imposing codified technique, but playing with them in order to find new movement strategies and generation. The class will be based heavily in improvisation, and finish with phrase-material and stretching.

Schedule
Wednesday 1 June
Thursday 2 June
Monday 6 June
Tuesday 7 June
Wednesday 8 June
Thursday 9 June

Costs: €7,- per movement lab

About Malik Nashad
Malik Nashad Sharpe is a choreographer, dancer, and poet from New York City. He graduated with Highest Honors in Experimental Dance from Williams College, and is currently an MFA candidate at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Primarily interested in fostering an anarcho-somatic body in the Urban, his works interrogate both the realities and fictions of the City, as efforts to locate the revolutionary potential of the choreography of the oppressed. He has performed internationally and domestically, and has danced with Night Star Dance Company based in Dublin. His works have been shown at the Bonnie Bird Theatre in London, Studio 303 in Montreal, HT Chen Dance Center, Otion Front Studio, Secret Project Robot Art Experiment in New York City, 62’ Center for Theatre and Dance in Williamstown, and at ShuaSpace in Jersey Ciy, where he was 2015 Artist-in-Residence. In 2015, he founded NYC-based experimental dance troupe YESwave*.

20 December – 5 January
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Assimilation is a multilogical Afrofuturist solo choreography that gradually shifts from dialetical images to one with painstaking clarity. Focused on an ontology of Blackness, post Anarchy, and queerness, the project seeks to create nuanced states of  ulteriority for shifting bodies.

Malik Nashad invites you to learn more about his work during his contemporary technique class. In this class you become engaged in his creative process to develop the choreography further in CLOUD/Danslab.

On the 4/5 January Malik will also have his presentation, more information will follow soon.

About Assimilations
The first part of this piece has been worked on since August  2015, and was performed  in various iterations at the University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, and at Five Myles Gallery in Brooklyn, NY. Malik proposes to finish this work by way of an interrogation and  deep research in the studio of the various new influences paralleling the course of the  work. Influenced by Tere O’Connor’s antithematic prepositions, and Michael Klein’s  choreographies as an aesthetics of change, he hopes to offer new politicizations of minoritarian bodies. In the residency at CLOUD Malik will plan to use his time to  physically research multilogical dispositions. The work relies heavily on physical realization of movement, and the consistent interrogation of what movement does.

Program residency

Open Training | contemporary technique
20 – 23 December | 10:00 – 12:00
28 – 30 December | 10:00 – 12:00
Costs: €7,- per class

Presentation
4/5 January | 19:30
to be confirmed

About Malik Nashad
Malik Nashad Sharpe is a choreographer, dancer, and poetfrom New York City. He graduated with Highest Honors in Experimental Dance from Williams College, and is currently an MFA candidate at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Primarily interested in fostering an anarcho-somatic body in the Urban, his works interrogate both the realities and fictions of the City, as efforts to locate the revolutionary potential of the choreography of the oppressed. He has performed internationally and domestically, and has danced with Night Star Dance Company based in Dublin. His works have been shown at the Bonnie Bird Theatre in London, Studio 303 in Montreal, HT Chen Dance Center, Otion Front Studio, Secret Project Robot Art Experiment in New York City, 62’ Center for Theatre and Dance in Williamstown, and at ShuaSpace in Jersey Ciy, where he was 2015 Artist-in-Residence. In 2015, he founded NYC-based experimental dance troupe YESwave*.