The Healing Industry by Malik Nashad Sharpe will premiere Autumn 2027.
Award-winning artist and choreographer Malik Nashad Sharpe (Marikiscrycrycry) will present his first large-scale performance as the recipient of a major commission, with development support and guidance from New Dimensions.
A partnership between Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts, Battersea Arts Centre, Take Me Somewhere, Tramway and Transform, New Dimensions was formed in 2023 to support artists to take the next step in their careers and create ambitious new work of scale designed to tour nationally and internationally. The 2023 commission EXXY by Dan Daw Creative Projects opens this October and will tour throughout Autumn 2025.
As part of the selection process for the New Dimensions commission, artists are paid to develop proposals and international programmers join the partners to offer feedback and guidance. The winner is supported to production by the partners with fundraising guidance, technical and rehearsal space and producing resource, before touring to leading arts venues and festivals.
The New Dimensions Partners said on this year’s selection:
“We have long been admirers of Malik’s work and were delighted to invite them to apply for the New Dimensions 2025 commission. Malik’s practice boldly and unapologetically mixes genre and aesthetic, as well as freely combining dance, theatre and live art forms and we are excited for him to devise The Healing Industry in the signature style. This project will allow Malik to expand their practice with a large-scale team and technical ambition, working in new and exciting ways for both him and us as partners. We are thrilled to accompany them on this journey and support their ambitions and can’t wait for the audience to see what Malik achieves.”
About Malik Nashad Sharpe
Malik Nashad Sharpe is known for his provocative performance that address themes of violence, alienation, horror and melancholia. He frequently choreographs under his alias, Marikiscrycrycry. In 2019, he was named a Rising Star in Dance by Attitude Magazine and in 2022, he was featured on the Forbes 30 under 30 list for his unique and pervasive choreographic achievements. His shows have been presented across the UK, Europe, and Canada, he is an Associate Artist at The Place and a studio resident of Somerset House Studios. He has held residencies at Sadlers Wells, Barbican and Tate Modern amongst others.
“I am honoured to have been given this immense opportunity to create my largest-scale work to date. New Dimensions comes at an exciting juncture in my career where I feel thirsty for my choreography to meet a level of ambition that is only afforded by an amazing opportunity like this. Since 2015, I have been creating thought-provoking stage works that look at some of the most pressing social and cultural questions of our time, and I am eager to start on my latest enquiry; interrogating the terms Hope and Progress by examining the industrialisation of healing and healing culture from an almost Nietzschean perspective. The Healing Industry will open in the Autumn of 2027, and I am thankful to the partners for believing in my work and creative principles.”
Malik Nashad Sharpe
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