New Kyd presents a choreographic séance that presents Joyce as a symbolic figure of spectral resistance
Doors 7pm
Tickets £8-18
In 2006, the body of Joyce Carol Vincent was found in her London flat nearly three years after she had died, her TV still flickering. New Kyd’s solo Joy(ce) attempts to dance this absence: to trace what it means to vanish while visible.
The piece unfolds as a fugue of solos, moving between rupture and ritual, meditative movements and stillness, mourning and invocation. New Kyd channels muses across time and style, Isadora Duncan’s abandon, Graham’s rituals of sadness, Wigman’s whimsy, Billie Holiday’s vulnerability. Joy(ce) reflects the architectures of visibility and erasure around womanhood from a hauntologist perspective.
Joy(ce) is a choreographic séance that presents Joyce as a symbolic figure of spectral resistance. A meditation on solitude, memory and the shimmering echoes of those like Joyce Carol Vincent who slip away unnoticed. But revived through reminiscence.
Kyd performs an unpplugged version of this seance
New Kyd (they/she) is a Zürich-based movement artist, DJ, performance and sound artist born in the UK to Nigerian parents. Working at the intersection of diasporic identity, historical observation and experimental performance, their practice blends movement, sound and abstract storytelling through a hauntological lens. Rooted in modern, postmodern and somatic dance practices, Kyd explores memory, refusal and emotive visibility within contemporary performance contexts.
Their work investigates urban isolation, invisibility, desirability and spectral resistance through fragmented choreographic and sonic landscapes informed by Yoruba cosmology, dance history, popular culture and supernatural narratives.
Kyd is a resident accomplice artist at Tanzhaus Zürich and has collaborated with artists including Trajal Harrell, Paul Maheke, Ligia Lewis, Akram Khan, Wu Tsang (Moved by the motion), and Jeremy Nedd. Their work has been presented internationally at institutions including Tanzhaus (CH), Cabaret Voltaire (CH), Berghain Halle (Berlin), Neue Nationalgalerie (Berlin) Museum Rietberg (CH) and Movement Research at Judson Church (NYC).