Malik Nashad Sharpe is a choreographer, dancer, and movement director whose work looks at the production of ontology, affect, and subjectivity from the perspective of marginalisation. They often work with the undercurrent, underneath, subversive, and ulterior aspects of what it means to be both fully human, and simultaneously dehumanised, their works have been performed widely nationally and internationally. They regularly make work as their alias marikiscrycrycry, est. 2015 to interrogate the production of tears as/in performance, and the utility of the melancholic proposition.
Photos by Manuel Vason, Mauricio Martorana, courtesy of marikiscrycrycry