moniqux ensemble presents Dictations - The Heart of the Sea
Through dance and live vocals, Dictations - The Heart of the Sea explores how family and community are carried and remembered.
The work holds intimacy and distance together, tracing the ongoing love and labour of making home while navigating intersecting identities.
Inspired by Grace Nichols' poem To My Coral Bones, the piece moves like the tide, reflecting on inheritance and what is carried across generations. It unfolds as an imagined island made together, breathing with slow, patient currents that carry fragments of story, sensation, and feeling beyond the individual body.
Award-winning artist Mele Broomes directs this debut production by moniqux ensemble
A Tramway Commission supported by Creative Scotland.
ACCESS
Performer-integrated BSL from Salma Francoise, BSL interpreter in training
Audience notes
Music is loud in parts
Suitable for ages 10+
About moniqux
moniqux ensemble is a Glasgow-based performance company making collaborative dance and music work. The company is shaped by lived experience, cultural plurality, and an understanding of performance as a space for exchange and reflection. Work is developed through ongoing dialogue between physical practice, sound, and the social contexts in which it is made.
This premiere introduces the company’s unfolding vision, bringing a sensorial, embodied performance language to Scotland’s stages.
Credits
Directed by Mele Broomes
Featuring Performing Artists
Kemono Lebe-Riot
Salma Francoise
Laura Mathana
Marios Ento-Engkolo
Chinyanta
KJ Clarke-Davis
Kimberly Mandindo
Mawadduh
Emmanuella Damptey
ACE V!S!ON
Concept & Directed by: Mele Broomes
Soundscore by: Simone Seales, Noushy Nanguy ft Micheal Arolowo
Costume Design: Zephyr Liddell
Textile Sculpture: Sabrina Henry
Costume Supervisor: Catriona Charlton
Lighting Design: Dominic Falcon
Music Producer: Axor
Sound Engineer (Vocal Design) Jamie Grier
Production Manager: Grahame Coyle
Stage Manager: Cynthia WS Cheung
Socials: Lola Aluko
Publicist: Joy Parkinson
Co-Producer: Mobo Agoro
Co-Producer: Rhea Lewis
BSL Consultancy: Bea Webster
Press for recent production through warm temperatures:
the stage ★★★★
“mesmeric and evocative”
binge fringe ★★★★★
“broomes has created a breathtaking world for us all to experience”