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BLKDOG

Botis Seva

  • Dance
  • Australian exclusive
  • Premiere
  • Performance
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A silhouetted group of dancers leaping in angular shapes

BLKDOG

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An Olivier-Award-winning hip hop production from one of Britain’s most exciting choreographers. One that asks—how can we fight through vice to find peace?

BLKDOG is dance as raw autobiography. Visionary British choreographer Botis Seva opens his life up for a kind of hip-hop exorcism—a storm of limbs, precise and unruly solos. A heaving fight through the smog of youth, out to where the light peaks through.

Backed by a pounding score from Seva’s long-time collaborator Torben Lars, a drilled squadron of seven dancers take to the stage in hooded caps. They plunge us into a non-stop and gripping, hallucinatory tale. A life story told with fluidity and drive. One that asks, how can the young survive a world not built for them? 

Direct from the West End, BLKDOG is coming to RISING. The trip is wild and dark, but it smoulders with vitality and humility.

“Botis Seva’s BLKDOG is very black, very street, intensely theatrical and totally entrancing”
Culture Whisper, UK

Five dancers in light tracksuits turn away from the camera in the background, in the foreground. Another dancer holding a baseball bat stands in the foreground

BLKDOG by Botis Seva

Four dancers in hoodies move towards the camera in a crouched position

BLKDOG by Botis Seva

Three dancers in hoodies move away from the camera in a crouched position

BLKDOG by Botis Seva

Five dancers in hoodies, one lying on the floor with eyes closed and the other four surrounding them.

BLKDOG by Botis Seva

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Artistic Team

Director & Choreographer

Botis Seva

Music Composer

Torben Sylvest

Lighting Designer

Tom Visser

Costume Designer

Ryan Dawson-Laight

Dancers

Sebastian Harry, Penelope Klamert, Larissa Koopman, Corey Owens, Margaux Pourpoint, Max Revell, Rose Sall Sao

Rehearsal Director

Victoria Shulungu & Hayleigh Sellors

Executive Producer

Lee Griffiths

Performed

Far From The Norm Dance Artists

Senior Production Manager

Andy Downie

Production Manager & Relighters

Andrej Gubanov, Chris Burr, Seth Rook Williams

Tour Manager

Gabija Cepelyte

Costume Makers

Jordan Goertz, Julie Sayers, Kelsey Vickery, Kingsley Hall, Lou Petty, Rosie Whiting

Mix Engineer

Pär Carlsson

Research & Development Rehearsal Director

Ekin Bernay

Contributing Artists

Charlotte Clark, Clarissa Shulungu, Ezra Owen, Isaac Ouro-Gnao, Savanah Anais Rowe, Shiloh Seva, Tyrone Isaac-Stuart

Supporters

Co-produced by Far From The Norm, Norrlandsoperan and Sadler’s Wells.

Supported by Arts Council England, Kingston University, Laban Theatre, Siobhan Davies Dance and UEL Dance: Urban Practice Department.

BLKDOG is supported by the British Council.

British Council

Image Credits

PHOTOS: Paul Phung

PHOTOS: Tim Visser and Camilla Greenwell