UNEARTHLY

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Originally inspired by Derek Jarman’s film Blue, Unearthly is a dance-based installation which reveals the manifold properties of the colour blue. The work was designed specially for the Raphael Cartoons gallery at the Victoria & Albert Museum as part of their 2024 performance festival.

Thick & Tight view blue through a queer lens; exploring the colour’s rarity within nature; the impossibility to capture or recreate it; its universality and omnipresence but also its ‘unnatural’ qualities; its historical importance in art and its current geopolitical implications. Once you’ve seen Unearthly, expect to view the colour blue in a new hue.

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Choreographed by Daniel Hay-Gordon & El Perry

Performed by Harry Alexander, Jahmarley Bachelor, Tia Hockey and students from Rambert School of Ballet & Contemporary Dance: Xena Pauwels, Nell Weatherby, Mirabelle Haddon, Holly McKay, Olivia Devine, Salvador Thylmann-Foster, Violet Savage, Pollyanna Mann, Lilly Schroeder, Sara Gomes, Angus Phillips-Higham, Finn Gurney, Martha Tribe, Martina Tartarini & Sunbeam Wood

Poem by Daniel Hay-Gordon

Poem narrated by Patience Tomlinson

Sound engineer Dean Allison

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BSL Interpreter Jacqui Beckford

Costumes by Fred Coomes & Matt Empringham, with Ben Brody & Neil Zhao

Hair & Make-up Darren Evans

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