HORSEMEAT

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, Gary Clarke plunges head first into a 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 Nigel Charnock, HORSEMEAT presents a series of episodes that are thought provoking, deeply intimate and powerfully engaging.

Since 2006, Horsemeat has been performed at The British Dance Edition, Sheffield Independent Film Studios, Yorkshire Dance Centre, Daghdha Dance Space in Ireland, The Lamproom Theatre, The Bonnie Bird Theatre at LABAN, Pulse Fringe Festival, Homotopia and as part of the Danceworks UK Spring Season 2009.

‘Quirky, dark and comic’
Dancing Times

‘Clarke has a wonderful sense of theatricality’
East Anglian Daily Times

Choreographed and performed by: Gary Clarke
Directed by: Nigel Charnock & Javier De Frutos
Lighting Design: Mark Webber
Costume Design: Kevin Muscat
Music: Mogwai, Erasure, Chopin, Nine Inch Nails, T-REX
Music Engineer: Clive Wilkinson

Lenght: 45 minutes

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.