Dance show studies the world of surveillance
A stunning dance show is coming to the Macrobert later this spring.
The Rosie Kay Dance Company has just started a tour of MK ULTRA, which calls in at the Stirling arts centre on Thursday May 18.
Rosie is one of the UK’s leading female choreographers and is renowned for her athletic movement, rigorous research and intelligent theatricality. The research associate for the University of Oxford School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography choreographed the hit feature film Sunshine on Leith and is best known for the five star and award-winning 5 SOLDIERS, which was a big hit in Stirling.
Following several years exploring the weird and wonderful world of conspiracy theories, inspired by the bizarre realm of pop culture, mind control and Illuminati imagery, MK ULTRA will bring a hypnotic, high energy, supercharged mashup of dance, music and imagery to the stage.
Renowned for tackling important, pertinent and challenging subject matters, the show looks at the world of symbolism, hidden messages and occult signs, deconstructing it for an unaware audience.
MK ULTRA is a CIA code word for a real LSD fuelled brainwashing technique developed by the US military. Popular conspiracy theory believes that MK ULTRA is still active and programmes high profile public figures and celebrities such as pop stars Britney Spears, Miley Cyrus, Justin Bieber and Rhianna - puppets of the ‘Illuminati’, a shadowy elite intent on creating a New World Order of authoritarian world government.
In MK ULTRA, Rosie, with a typically fearless eye, delves deeply into this world and conjures up something entirely new, subverting the subversive and looks to shatter the Illuminati’s illusory control.
She said: “MK Ultra is the result of three years intense research, which have taken me through the world of surveillance, state police, torture and brainwashing, through to pop culture, mainstream media and celebrity breakdowns, all the way back to politics and a comment on the post- culturism state we are in now.
“Spending time exploring the deep rabbit hole of conspiracy theory took me into strange realms of CIA brainwashing, celebrity training and Illuminati symbolism hidden in pop culture. At a time when everything is fake, or at least we don’t trust what’s real any more, MK Ultra looks at what this world really feels like and what affect it is having on us, whether we know it or not.
“Be prepared for high-energy, high-octane dance, a mash up of dance styles, subliminal and secret messages, incredible video, light and costume visuals, music that wraps around your senses and a deeper, darker political edge. Be prepared, there is twerking.”
MK ULTRA will feature seven outstanding dancers: Shanelle Clemenson, Harriet Ellis, Shelley Eva Haden, Lizzie Klotz, Joao Maio, Ryan Munroe and Oliver Russell.