Photograph by Brian Slater.
MK ULTRA: Rosie Kay Dance Company
By Commonwealth Games choreographer Rosie Kay in collaboration with BAFTA-winning filmmaker Adam Curtis, MK ULTRA explores the rise of a strange, dark myth of our time. How, as millions of young people turn away from established political systems, bizarre conspiracies arise that read like a hidden code in the pop culture and music videos that surround us.
For fans of Stranger Things, critical readers of the media or those with a keen eye for Illuminati symbolism in mainstream pop culture, MK ULTRA is a thrilling tale that explores the conspiracy of mind control hidden in plain sight. Combining dance, projected visuals, film and music, this is a new kind of performance for the age of Fake News and post-truth.
MK ULTRA is the 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 certain pop stars as puppets of the ‘Illuminati’, a shadowy elite intent on creating a New World Order of authoritarian world government.
MK ULTRA is visually arresting, with costumes from Lady Gaga’s designer Gary Card, a gold mirrored stage, hypnotic triangular projections by Louis Price, a pulsing soundtrack of American trap music and a mesmerising score by electroacoustic composer Annie Mahtani.
“a postmodern fantasia...MK ULTRA asks important questions about the real and the fake, and whether, for a new generation, they’ve become one.
★★★★ The Observer
“Extraordinary....a super-saturated sensory feast of movement, sound and imagery."
★★★★ The Financial Times
Rosie Kay is one of the UK’s leading choreographers. She is celebrated for her athletic movement, rigorous research and intelligent theatricality, and is known for the five-star award-winning 5 SOLDIERS as well as choreographing 2018’͛s live televised Commonwealth Games handover broadcast globally to 1 billion people.
Tickets: £18.50
Under 16s and Students: £15.00
Duration: 70 mins (approx.) No interval
Supported by Arts Council England. Commissioned by DanceXchange, Warwick Arts Centre & Birmingham Repertory Theatre.
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