CHAOS BALLAD

Samir Kennedy

Information

This performance is a double-bill.

See this show alongside Katy Baird’s Get Off by booking 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 2024a series of double-bills featuring performances developed with BAC.

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.

Find out more about Bloom 2024 here

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 emailingaccess@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

Pre-Show Information

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.

VISIT OUR ACCESS PAGE

We believe in making our shows accessible to as many people as possible.

We offer tickets on a Pay What You Can basis for the majority of performances throughout the year. Tickets usually start at £8, and we have recommended pricing to help you to choose a price that works for you.

We know that ticket price is a huge barrier for some, and the Pay What You Can model offers people who can afford to pay the recommended price or more the chance to support others who can’t.

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Catch these shows alongside Katy Baird’s Get Off throughout May 2024.

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