Marikiscrycrycry , Hang Time: The Niggaz’ I-Ching

Hang Time: The Niggaz’ I-Ching is a choreographic meditation on hanging out and hanging on. Hanging in the air. Hanging in there. Hanging by a thread. Braids hanging low off the nape of the neck. Bodies suspended in time. Lives hanging from one another. Moving between soca and bouyon, séance, ritual, and gathering, the work conjures a state of congregation, suspension, and haunting.

Drawing from Black and Caribbean histories and lived experience, Marikiscrycrycry examines grief, mental health, and the fracture lines within masculine communities. Cornrows and braids emerge as protection, coding, and trace — lines that guide, bind, or suddenly resemble a rope. Hang Time moves within the tension between care and danger, survival and loss of control.

The performers carry one another, lose one another, and endure. The work unfolds through states of exhaustion, collapse, invocation, and reverberation. It asks what holds a community together when vulnerability has no place — and what remains suspended in the air after someone disappears.

Malik Nashad Sharpe works internationally as a choreographer, movement director, and creative strategist across art, fashion, and music. Under the alias Marikiscrycrycry, he develops physical image-worlds between horror, fantasy, and social reality, where intensity, loss of control, and emotional excess collide. His hybrid movement language merges social and commercial dance forms with contemporary choreography, pushing bodies to their limits.

Following the acclaim of DARK, HAPPY, to the CORE in Düsseldorf in 2024, Sharpe returned to tanzhaus nrw this May with Winin’ & Liming — a gathering he curated with local artists, activists, and community voices across dance, exchange, and care. Now he returns with a new world premiere: haunting and charged with intensity.