Ebony Rose Dark

About their piece - Growing Nostalgia

Growing Nostalgia is a work that explores how I embody cultural memories of music, food, smells and that nostalgia grows and affects me.

As I get older I find myself searching out aspects of my heritage more keenly – the smells, the sounds and the music specifically. My roots music. These have not necessarily been aspects of my life that I have explicitly explored creatively to date. And yet they have certainly been essential to how I tap into my creative being. As a dance artist, there are music styles that bring me back to elements of my Caribbean (Jamaica and St Kitts) history. And now

I am increasingly drawn to Reggae, Roots, Dub, Soul and old style R&B. They are becoming a bigger part of my usual playlist. My dancing self recognises that in satisfying the urge to move to these rhythms, I feel them in my backbone, my spine, first. In a spiral. Deeply. I want to explore how older, dance trained Ebony Rose Dark might respond creatively to this musical (return!) journey.

Artist Biography

Ebony Rose Dark is your all singing/all dancing, Lip Syncing, Story Telling, Miming V.I.P/ Visually Impaired Cabaret/Performance Artist.
Ebony is known for her performances around Disability, Ableism, racism, and relationships within the LGBTQ+ community particularly through The Royal Vauxhall Tavern and Bar Wotever – where Ebony first emerged.
Alongside renowned performances at various UK Prides, Hoopla, Marlborough Productions and regularly with David Hoyle, Ebony has been focussing on accessible Cabaret for LGBTQ+Visually impaired people.
They have performed with Candoco in The Show Must Go On at Sadlers Wells
Ebony premiered their full length first solo work, Out There, In Here, complete with self-audio description throughout at The Place in London.

You can book your pay what you can ticket to watch Ebony perform at Hatch here: HATCH - our annual scratch night