The Skeleton Maze
As culture manufactures glamour, ego-death got such a glowing review,
but to depersonalise is swimming as a ghost in a sea with wet wreckage to cling to.
The Skeleton Maze engaged a fascination with underworld and other/afterlife. It s an interdisciplinary performance engaging dance, music, spoken word and tarot. The performance tangles and wrangles with Christian cosmologies, analytically re-negotiated through esoteric spoken word whilst improvised movement attempts to offer rest and release through flow states.
Narratively influenced by tarot cards chosen by audience members, this is a journey into an underworld, yearning for abyss. Tbh, I probably won’t perform it again. As with many things it was processual, of a time, and is now held as memory with gratitude.
I’ve still got a pervasive curiosity about the dark. Hooray for the nurturing pregnancy of impermanence, am I right? (Am I right?)
Audience Feedback
“The Skeleton Maze is both engrossing and accessible. Charlie’s obvious passion is enticing and the show succeeds in entertaining and provoking thought. Dance, music, storytelling and interaction with the audience weaves a satisfying whole that is as impressive as it is a joy to watch.”
“A beautiful piece, with enchanting music and enthralling characters that captured and enticed the audience into its mysterious world.”
‘“I found The Skeleton Maze to be a beautiful, challenging and engrossing performance. The way multiple strands of performance and sound/music were drawn together deeply held my attention and prompted unexpected thoughts on my own mortality and life.”
Through a collaboration with film-maker Adam Goodwin we created a short film accompanying this performance. Here’s some images from the shoot.
