Bringing hypnosis to the Barbican with the incredible duo Bullyache and their dancers.
Working with hypnosis with the incredible duo Bullyache and their dancers during their residency at the Barbican Centre, in the development of their new show A GOOD MAN IS HARD TO FIND, exploring the possibilities of our mind-body in movement, expression and attunement.
BULLYACHE is a music duo and dance company that makes working class, queer reconstructions of classical texts through the lens of a pop music video. Our work is dance theatre, live music and performance art. We use music videos as a vehicle to communicate our ideas to audiences. Their iconography, pacing, and layering are tools that we use to experiment with theatre. We imagine ourselves as Pina Bausch cosplaying as Dua Lipa and performing Albums as theatre works.
A GOOD MAN IS HARD TO FIND, a reconstruction of the story of Medea: a funeral set inside the sculpture of a pop music video, Princess Dianna meets Hype Williams. Asking how grief is dealt with in a performative landscape. The music moves between electronic instrumentals and traditional pop songs composed by ourselves
read more on Bullyache here
https://pw-magazine.com/2022/bullyache
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