Dark Matter - The VAULT Festival
by Tatenda Matsvai
Director - Kirk-Ann Roberts
Producer - Jess Senanayake
Designer - Gisela Mulindwa
Associate Designer - Claudia Casino
Sound Designer - Joe Browning
Lighting Designer - Ruth Harvey
Movement Director - Sean Ting-Hsuan Wang
Feb 2023 | The Vault Festival
Dark matter
is a lyrically playful piece that explores the power of reclaiming and remixing traditions. Told through spoken word, movement and music. The show that explores themes of afrofuturisum, grief, queerness and tradition through ritual and poetry
Takura Mapafunga, a Zimbawean Immigrant raised in south London, loses her last remaining grandparent, which spirals her into questioning what happens after death and how little she knows of her cultural inheritance.