Physical.
Portico Library, Manchester, May 2016, three performances.
I curated and produced this exciting dance/poetry collaboration, inviting dancer/choreographer Joshua Hubbard to interpret selections from Andrew McMillan’s debut poetry collection, Physical (winner of the Guardian First Book Award) as part of the annual Manchester After Hours late-night arts programme.
Joshua and Andrew performed together in a combination of live reading and dance with Joshua’s movements inhabiting bodily memories of Andrew’s intimate and sensual words. In Joshua’s vision, poet and dancer merge and switch places as sex, longing and satisfaction are expressed in verse. We were excited to be bring this collaboration between three working-class gay men to the beautiful environs of the Portico Library.