Graham Clayton-Chance

Glasgow-based artist Phil Collins’s film Soy Mi Madre examines the immigrant populations of Colorado’s Roaring Fork Valley, a sizable percentage of which hail from northwestern Mexico. The region relies heavily on service and maintenance work provided largely through this population, who often commute to work in Aspen. Loosely inspired by Jean Genet’s The Maids—a seminal example of Theatre of the Absurd that renders surreal the intricate power dynamics that exist between people of divergent socioeconomic groups and exploits the volatility of social identity—Soy Mi Madre portrays the social realities of this region through the melodramatic lens of the telenovela. Reproduced in this volume through a generous selection of stills, the film uses popular Mexican television actors and crew, including Patricia Reyes Spindola, Zaide Silvia Guitérrez, Veronica Langer, and Salvador Parra, as well as members of the transsexual prostitute community of Mexico City.

Verbal and physical slapstick exposes the darker truths behind love and relationships in this danced monologue from Nigel Charnock, the ‘bad boy of physical theatre’. Co-founder of DV8 Physical Theatre, Nigel’s acclaimed work reveals a queer self-deprecating humour, fusing love, loss and emotional solitude in response to the homophobic climate of the 80’s in the shadow of the AIDS epidemic.

A duet for two men taken from STILL, a long-form piece of work choreographed by Nigel Charnock for Candoco Dance Company in 2009.“With every piece I make there is part of me in there, its always about relationship rather than relationships, and more so in this piece about the loss of that, about losing someone” Nigel Charnock.

In November 2023, over 800 people from all over the world gathered in San Francisco to attend the Sundance Stompede, an LGBTQ+ country-western dance weekend with four days of workshops and exhibition performances across three venues. After 27 years this year is the final Stompede. The film documents the weekend of dancing and the thoughts and reflections of 15 participants. As we journey into the weekend, a film about country-western dancing reveals deeper insights into the power of dance - not only to create community but to offer a profound healing of bodies and minds.

A rough, raw and joyous ride with 10 gay male dancers as they prepare a sequence for Nigel Charnock's performance piece 10 Men. Filmed over a week inside the rehearsal room capturing the energy, humour and pure joy of one of Britain's best loved choreographers. Sadly the full stage work could not be realised or performed publicly due to his untimely death and this footage is the last of his work to be seen. But contained in these short 3 minutes is his bold signature; dance with real physicality, humour, passion and seriously entertaining.

mandla rae has a selective memory and they are scrambling to piece together their life. as british as a watermelon questions what it means to belong through exploring mandla’s fragmented asylum and migration memories.