Blackmilk
Event information
Date: 21 October 2025
Time: 8.30pm
Venue: The Stanley & Audrey Burton Theatre, Northern Ballet , 2 St Cecilia Street Quarry Hill Leeds LS2 7PACost: £2 -£35 (Pay what you can)
Type: Dance
Dancer and choreographer Tiran Willemse presents an intense and tension-filled solo performance.
From the precise choreography of drum majorettes in uniform, to the melodramatic movements of white femme starlets and gestures associated with masculine Black rap stars, Willemse examines limiting stereotypes and shifting identities.
Through a focus on hand gestures, blackmilk complicates a mainstream repertoire of legible identities, opening them up to a complex sensitivity that the artist describes as ‘black male melancholia’.
blackmilk is the first part of the Willemse’s trompoppies trilogy. ‘Trompoppies’ is Afrikaans and describes drum majorettes in uniform.
Performances at Transform 25 co-presented by Transform and the Stanley & Audrey Burton Theatre.
Co-produced by Sophiensaele, Tanzquartier Wien, Gessnerallee and WP Zimmer.
