In the Letting Go
"We cannot change men, but we can encourage, implore and affirm their will to change. We can respect the truth of their inner being, a truth that they may be inable to speak, that they long to connect, to love, to be loved." - bell hooks
In the Letting Go was a long term research project looking at patriarchy and implicit power structures. Playing with the things that might be difficult for men to say to each other and to show to each other within those structures. Looking at vulnerability between men, intimacy, care-giving, playfulness and love. The project is a physical excavation of these ideas, an unburdening, a ritual of release, a way forward towards new models for ‘maleness’.
In the Letting Go is created by: Omari Bernard, Dan Canham, Laura Dannequin, Nathan Goodman, John Leader, Nathan Louis-Fernand, Somalia Nonyé Seaton, Ira Mandela Siobhan.
Director: Dan Canham
Films directed by: Omari Bernard, Dan Canham, Nathan Goodman, John Leader, Nathan Louis-Fernand, Ira Mandela Siobhan.
Performed by: Omari Bernard, Nathan Goodman, John Leader, Nathan Louis-Fernand, Ira Mandela Siobhan.
Dramaturg: Somalia Nonyé Seaton
Music: Bearcubs
Outside Eye: Laura Dannequin
Footage shot by: Jimmy Chamberlain, Kane Klendjan, Marianna Krempeniou, John Leader, Ira Mandela Siobhan, Dan Canham.
Editing: Dan Canham
Interviews conducted by Dan Canham and Somalia Nonyé Seaton.
Project Produced by MAYK
Developed with contributions from Deborah Pearson
In the Letting Go is supported using public funding through Arts Council England. It has been previously developed with the support of the National Theatre and in collaboration with Dialoghi - Residenze per le Arti performative a Villa Manin 2018_2020