Black Milk
Photograph by John Savage
Black Milk is the culmination of 25 years of making dance theatre by Douglas Wright.
Like all dance works, Black Milk began as a seed of an idea that gathered momentum and energy from its creator. It germinated and grew while Douglas Wright drafted the manuscript for Terra Incognito, his latest literary offering. He described the idea as haunting him, begging to be created.
"I didn't think I would make another large-scale dance theatre work, but the central idea for Black Milk wouldn't leave me alone, and in the end I had to give in to it," he says.
The result is Black Milk, a profound and physical exploration of the intangible boundaries of love, fear and memory, in a uniquely physical language charting the divided human personality.
Choreographer DOUGLAS WRIGHT
Composer DAVID LONG
Set/Costume Designer MICHAEL PEARCE
Lighting Designer ROBRECHT GHESQUIERE
Producer FENN GORDON
SARAH-JAYNE HOWARD
CLAIRE O'NEIL
CRAIG BARY
HELAINA KEELEY
ALEX LEONHARTSBERGER
TAI ROYAL
JESSICA SHIPMAN