by Skye Reynolds & Khamlane Halsackda
let’s meet in the flesh
for a slippery womb-howling-punk-prayer-dance
riding the waves of a hot flush poem
empire is falling & we are the tumbling stones
skin to skin
invoking our queer, femi-divine selves
into Flesh was first conceived by artists Skye Reynolds and Khamlane Halsackda
during a residency with Critical Path 2019 in Sydney, Australia. The project is a Scottish – Swedish co-production supported by Inkonst, Malmo and Tramway, Glasgow.
Between 2020- 2022 we were physically distanced. . .
into Flesh is when we meet again live, in person.
Skye is a kooky, peri-menopausal mum, Kham is a quirky-queer husband. We’re both getting older! Playful and vulnerable the work celebrates the intimacy of friendship and the freedom to be one’s self. These performances are physical spaces where we can reveal and transform, tapping into and enjoying each other’s live presence, and that of the audience as we negotiate life’s ever-shifting terrain.
into Flesh premiered 2023 in Sweden and Scotland.
Audience responses:
“uplifting…a rollercoaster of emotion…introspective…elusive…gregarious”
“hilarious and tender”
“all my expectations of where it might go – were wrong!”
“You sent me off into the night with a smile on my face and a glad heart.”
“The beauty of a long friendship shone out from this show. And how a friendship can be a place where different experiences of immigration, desire, myth and changing bodies can all be held and attended to, in the flesh, in the being together.”
Photos by: Aimé Dabbadie
Core Creative Team:
Created, directed & performed by: Skye Reynolds & Khamlane Halsackda
Dramaturgy: Majula Drammeh
Creative input and direction: Majula Drammeh
Composition/ Sound design: Cassius Lambert
Additional music: Tallulah Rose
Creative advisor: Lucy Suggate
Stylist: Raymond Roa
Light design: Ulrich Ruchlinski / imULto
Technical production: Ulrich Ruchlinski / imULto
Technician: Sigtryggur Jonsson
BSL interpreter: Amy Cheskin
Publicity photos: Aimé Dabbadie
Videographer (SE): Alexis Rodríguez Cancino / in-discourse
Producer: Skye Reynolds & Khamlane Halsackda with Sofia Wickman & Jenny Månström /Danscentrum Syd; Hanna Falk /Falks Projekt
Co-produced by: Tramway, Inkonst, Nya Rörelsen w additional support: Danscentrum Syd & Dansstationen
Funded by: The Swedish Arts Council , Malmo City & Tramway
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