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, with Support from National Theatre of Scotland
Audience notes
Music is loud in parts
Suitable for ages 10+ (this is an age guideline)
This production is not made specifically for children but is suitable for a younger audience. The work contains scenes with low lighting at times.
In the press:
The List
'We have been scattered across the world but then we come together'
Dance Art Journal
Mele Broomes launches new performance company
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
Director, Concept & Songwriter: Mele Broomes
Assistant Director Support & Co-songwriter: Kemono Lebe-Riot
Soundscore: Simone Seales and Noushy Nanguy (featuring Micheal Arolowo)
Costume Design: Zephyr Liddell
Costume Supervisor: Catriona Charlton
Costume Makers: Catriona Charlton, Barbra Kolasinski, Emily Smit-Dicks
Costume Design Assistants: Izzy Jones Rigby, Sophie Pitt
Wardrobe Supervisor: Saehee Simmons
Textile Sculpture: Sabrina Henry
Lighting Design: Dominic Falcon
Music Producer: Axor
Sound Engineer (Vocal Design): Jamie Grier
Production Manager: Grahame Coyle
Stage Manager: Cynthia WS Cheung
Social Media: Lola Aluko
Publicist: Joy Parkinson
Producer: Mobo Agoro
Producer: Rhea Lewis