Keeping Up with the Apocalypse

Years ahead in the future of planet Earth, only one species remains, thriving in a desolate post-apocalyptic landscape...the Kardashians! Famous for being famous and living on money alone, they dominate a decimated planet. They dance on and on in this grotesque ballet, desperate for attention from an audience that no longer exists.

Keeping Up with the Apocaylpse was commissioned by Ballet Central as part of their touring programme of work alongside a restating of an Ashton ballet and two new works by Dickson Mbi and Kristen McNally. Set to John Adam's opera 'Nixon in China', the work is a meditation on greed, vanity and the absurdity of a species bringing about its own undoing, and dragging everything else with it.

​CREDITS

Costume & prop design: Chloe Ivey-Ray
Lighting Design: Andrew Ellis
Rehearsal Director: Ben Warbis
Photos: Amber Hunt @ ASH photography