CHAOS BALLAD
Samir Kennedy
Information
This performance is a double-bill.
See this show alongside Katy Baird’s Get Off by booking seperate Pay What You Can tickets for both performances on the same evening.
Time: 6pm
Tickets: Pay What You Can (Recommended Price £8)*
*all orders will be subject to a transaction fee of £2
Running Time: 1 hour (no interval)
Age Recommendation: 14+
This event takes place in person in our Members Bar
Presented as part of Bloom 2024: a series of double-bills featuring performances developed with BAC.
See this show alongside Katy Baird’s Get Off by booking seperate Pay What You Can tickets for both performances on the same evening.
Lurking somewhere between concert, cabaret and nightmare, CHAOS BALLAD bears witness to the attempts of Samir Campaign as he just keeps on keeping on going in a world filled with terror, the terror of boredom and the boredom of terror.
He rehearses and rehearses and rehearses a never-ending rehearsal for a show that will never be.
What vortex of sadness will he be sucked into now, and in turn suck you into along with him?
Samir Kennedy is a British/Algerian dance, performance and sound artist based between the UK and France. He makes interdisciplinary works across video, sound, choreography and performance which centre the body as a site from which to perform notions of class, race, otherness, queerness and abjection using archetypal figures (such as the devil, the zombie, the clown) as vehicles from the collective consciousness which drive complex readings.
Credits
Creation and performance Samir Kennedy
Sound Samir Kennedy
Supported by Cambridge Junction, ICI-CNN Centre Chorégraphique National de Montpellier, Wainsgate Dances and Arts Council England
Special thanks to Myrto Katsiki, Anne Kerzerho, Volmir Cordeiro, Maria-Giulia Serrantoni and Jean-Daniel Broussé.
Access
PRE EVENT INFORMATION
This event takes place in person in our Members Bar. This space is on the first floor, with step-free access via a lift.
If you have booked a ticket you will receive an email from us before your performance detailing important information about your visit.
PERSONAL ASSISTANT/COMPANION TICKETS
If you require the assistance of a friend or helper to attend, we can make a free ticket available for your companion. You can book access companion tickets online or contact the Box Office to book by emailing access@bac.org.uk.
To book a free access companion online:
- log in to your account here
- go to ‘Other preferences’ and tick ‘I require a personal assistant/companion’.
- Choose the performance, date and seats you would like and if you add at least 2 tickets to your basket, then one of these will automatically become free.
PERFORMANCE INFORMATION
Content
- Loud music
- Latex balloons
This performance will be Relaxed. We invite you to make yourself comfortable and move around if you need to and if you need to leave the performance at any point you will be allowed to return to the space when you feel ready.
We want our shows to be as accessible to as many people as possible.
We offer tickets to most shows on a Pay What You Can basis throughout the year.
Tickets for performances in 2025 start at £9.50, and we have recommended pricing to help you choose a price that works for you.
We know that ticket price is a huge barrier for some. If you can afford to pay the recommended price or more, choosing to do so supports those that can’t. It makes it possible for us to continue to offer Pay What You Can and welcome those who otherwise wouldn’t be able to attend.
