Malik Nashad Sharpe – Horror for the Live Context

Biography

Malik Nashad Sharpe is a choreographer and movement director working with dance, dark fantasy and horror, and creating primarily under the alias Marikiscrycrycry. Malik’s formally engaging performance works address themes of violence, alienation, horror, melancholia, belonging, and the horizon, and explore the construction of affect, atmosphere and dramaturgy from more marginal perspectives. He has received commissions and shown his work widely across the UK, Europe and Canada, and is currently an Associate Artist at The Place and a studio resident of Somerset House Studios. He has held artistic residencies at Sadlers Wells, Barbican, Performance Situation Room, Dance4, Duckie and Tate Modern. He holds a BA in Experimental Dance with highest honours from Williams College and a certificate in Contemporary Dance from Trinity Laban Conservatoire for Music and Dance, where he won the Simone Michele Prize for Outstanding Choreography. In 2019, he was named a Rising Star in Dance from Attitude Magazine, and in 2022 he was featured on the prestigious Forbes 30 under 30 list for his unique and pervasive choreographic achievements. In 2023, he was nominated for the Premio Cunha e Silva Prize at Galeria Municipal do Porto. He currently lives in London and is a guest professor in dance and performance at the Stockholm University of Arts in Sweden.