STILL HOUSE
In The Letting Go
A new live dance show that looks at patriarchy, vulnerability, intimacy, care-giving, playfulness and love.
"We cannot change men, but we can encourage, implore and affirm their will to change. We can respect the truth of their inner being, a truth that they may be unable to speak, that they long to connect, to love, to be loved." - bell hooks
In The Letting Go is a new live dance show that looks at patriarchy, vulnerability, intimacy, care-giving, playfulness and love. The project is a physical excavation of these ideas, an unburdening, a way forward towards new models for masculinity.
In the Letting Go is created by: Omari Bernard, Dan Canham, Laura Dannequin, Nathan Goodman, John Leader, Nathan Louis-Fernand, Somalia Nonyé Seaton, Ira Mandela Siobhan.
Director: Dan Canham
Films directed by: Omari Bernard, Dan Canham, Nathan Goodman, John Leader, Nathan Louis-Fernand, Ira Mandela Siobhan.
Performed by: Omari Bernard, Nathan Goodman, John Leader, Nathan Louis-Fernand, Ira Mandela Siobhan.
Dramaturg: Somalia Nonyé Seaton
Music: Bearcubs
Outside Eye: Laura Dannequin
Footage shot by: Jimmy Chamberlain, Kane Klendjan, Marianna Krempeniou, John Leader, Ira Mandela Siobhan, Dan Canham.
Editing: Dan Canham
Interviews conducted by Dan Canham and Somalia Nonyé Seaton.
Developed with contributions from Deborah Pearson.
Project Produced by MAYK
In the Letting Go is supported using public funding through Arts Council England. It has been previously developed with the support of the National Theatre and in collaboration with Dialoghi - Residenze per le Arti performative a Villa Manin 2018_2020.