The iconic Michael Clark Company will be showing their new ballet at the Barbican this October. The show will run from the 17th of October until the 27th and will be accompanied to the sounds of Relaxed Muscle and Scritti Politti. All choreography is by Michael Clark, Stevie Stewart of Bodymap has designed the costumes alongside Clark and lighting has been designed by artist Charles Atlas.

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Tickets come at a selection of prices and are bookable here

17 – 27 October 2012 / 19:45

Michael Clark Company – New Works 2012
Barbican Theatre
Silk Street London
EC2Y 8DS

Sang Bleu are excited to announce that Sang Bleu 6 contributor Dominic Johnson will be performing Departure at London’s Chelsea Theatre’s SACRED season on October 25th 2012.

Departure (An Experiment in Human Salvage) is a performance involving live tattooing on Dominic Johnson’s hands, carried out by the renowned tattoo artist Alex Binnie. The tattoos function as permanent archival documents of performance, and as art works in their own rights. Pain and the wound are therefore incidental to the production of a striking permanent image on the body – in Departure as well as in tattooing as a traditional cultural practice more generally. How might disaster be represented or produced without recourse to sacred imagery? What might a new secular pantheon of catastrophic images look like? In Departure, the creation of a lasting image in performance mimics and explores the histories of tattooing and scarification as practices of body modification.

Dominic Johnson has performed in London at SPILL Festival of Performance, National Portrait Gallery (as part of Gay Icons), Duckie’’s Gay Shame, Torture Garden, and Chelsea Theatre; and also at Fierce (Birmingham), National Review of Live Art (Glasgow) and elsewhere in the UK. He has performed internationally in Austria, Canada, Croatia, Denmark, France, Slovenia, the US and elsewhere. He is a Lecturer in the School of English and Drama, Queen Mary, University of London. He is the author of Glorious Catastrophe: Jack Smith, Performance and Visual Culture (2012) and Theatre & the Visual (2012), and editor of Franko B: Blinded by Love (2006), and Manuel Vason: Encounters (Performance, Photography, Collaboration) (2007). www.dominicjohnson.co.uk

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25^th October, 20.00

Chelsea Theatre

7 World’s End Place,

London

Photographs by Briony Campbell

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