A darkly comic clown show, in which our hero literally dances with death. The piece tracks the tragicomic relationship between a lonely dancer and a dead body. As funny as it is philosophical, Bardo is about death, reality and the exuberance of your own dancing. Expect gyration and rigamortis in equal measure.
Through Bardo, The Bare Project celebrates the limitlessness of fiction – and finding moments that alter what possibilities we see in our everyday existence. The piece came out of Joseph’s fascination with the experience of unreality. It is a phenomenon many of us will experience in our lifetimes and means to lose touch with our experience of the world around us as objectively ‘real’. Another big part of this show has been experimenting with digital technology including surround and placed sound, projection and animation.
Alongside this project we hosted a series of Death Cafes in Sheffield, Leeds and London.
This piece went through a series of R&Ds over 2015 and 2016, and whilst we would still one day love to produce it fully and tour it, right now, it’s sitting on a back burner.