Bold, brash and brutally honest, HORSEMEAT confronts the gritty realities surrounding love, life, sexuality and growing up. Set against a backdrop of music which mixes the camp disco beats of Erasure with the serene beauty of Chopin via the glam rock sounds of T-REX, esteemed performer Janusz Orlik plunges head first into Gary’s nightmarish playground of frantic movement and thriving gestures in this all singing, all dancing autobiographical solo.
Created in collaboration with dance mavericks Javier De Frutos and the late Nigel Charnock, HORSEMEATpresents a series of episodes that are thought provoking, deeply intimate and powerfully engaging.
“Quirky, dark and comic”
Credits
Choreography: Gary Clarke
Performers: Janusz Orlik, Gary Clarke
Directors: Nigel Charnock, Javier De Frutos
Lighting Design: Mark Webber
Film Design: Siobhan Mckeown
Costume Design: Kevin Muscat
Music Engineer: Clive Wilkinson
Duration: 45 minutes
Horsemeat has been performed at: British Dance Edition 2006, Sheffield Independent Film Studios, Stage@Leeds, Daghdha Dance Space in Ireland, The Lamproom Theatre, The Bonnie Bird Theatre at LABAN, Pulse Fringe Festival, Homotopia, The Unity Theatre, Doncaster Hot House Festival, Yorkshire Dance, DEDA, LPAC and The Place as part of Spring Loaded 2011.
Horsemeat was co-produced by Danceworks UK, Yorkshire Dance Centre, Laban and Barnsley Theatre Trust Ltd with additional support from Arts Council England, Yorkshire through a Grants for the Arts Award.