Jo Hellier and Yas Clarke
The Morgul Way
Residency
A multidisciplinary performance work, The Morgul Way crosses forms and incorporates the eclectic experience of the creative team to conjure an abstract world.
The combination of choreography, vocal composition and extended vocal technique and video projection disorients audiences, giving distance to reflect on queer ecology, ecosexuality, and sensorial exploration of landscape. With this work, the creative team are interested in creating weird and surprising states and textures which serve to unravel essentialist thinking and move away from absolutes while avoiding didactic and narrative tones.
The Morgul Way will be co-created and led by Jo Hellier and Yas Clarke who will work with two dancers/vocalists, a designer and a dramaturg to create a midscale studio performance suitable for dance and experimental theatre contexts.
Director / Performer: Jo Hellier
Composer: Yas Clarke
Dramaturg: Nic Green
Designer: Wojciech Rusin
Performers: Linzy Na Nakorn, Katherine Hall
Artist Information
Jo Hellier is an interdisciplinary artist and performer working across live art, dance, experimental music, video, and installation. Their practice incorporates improvisation, somatic movement practices and witchcraft to amplify awareness in body and imagination. From this place she creates abstract, expansive work that intends to disrupt essentialist thinking.
Yas Clarke is a sound artist and composer working across live-art, theatre, and music contexts. His work is always experimental, collaborative, and improvisational, and favours weird, minimal, and abstract aesthetics. He works often in collaboration with live-artists, theatre makers and choreographers and his collaborative performance work has toured internationally and received critical acclaim.
