What Happens When Healing Is No Longer Clinical — but Communal? Where does care begin — in the hands, the heart, or the remembering? A dance-theatre ritual by Joachim Keke – DO NOT MISS IT
TAKING PLACE ON THURSDAY THE 13TH OF NOVEMBER at The Theatre in the Mill, Bradford
Presented as a work-in-progress within the Untitled 4 Cohort
In The Clinic of Remembering, multidisciplinary artist Joachim Keke invites audiences into a space where healing is reimagined through movement, memory, and collective breath.
Rooted in Afro-Fusion and Afro-Contemporary dance, the work transforms the stage into a living clinic — a site of speculative care where rhythm replaces prescription and remembering becomes medicine.
Drawing from his own experiences — from the communal warmth of the past, where neighbours shared meals and offered seats without words, to the cold formality of systems where care now feels cautious and bureaucratic — Keke asks what becomes of empathy when it is mistranslated, when pain is numbered, and when names become paperwork.
The Clinic of Remembering reflects a world in transition: where the healthcare system feels fractured and human connection is quietly eroding. He continues to ask — what happens when care no longer lives in systems, but in bodies, gestures, and shared remembering?
“Care is not a whisper.
It trembles, it sweats, it breathes.
I move not to perform — but to remember.
In this clinic, we do not fix — we listen.
We do not prescribe — we breathe.”
Through these moments, “The Clinic of Remembering” searches for a world where care can once again be felt, not managed.
“Maybe speculative care is not the future,” Keke reflects, “but the past we left behind — calling us back, softly, through the noise.”
Blending dance, spoken word, light, and sound, Keke’s piece travels from remembrance to rupture, from fragmentation to renewal.
Red light meets gold; breath meets silence; care is redefined — not as cure, but as coexistence.
The result is a ritual of remembering: tender, defiant, and deeply human. It explores how movement can heal, connect, and recall what has been forgotten.
Merging technology with tradition — the ancestral with the futuristic. “The Clinic of Remembering” asks not just how we survive, but how we belong.
This is not a performance to watch. It’s an experience to feel — a call to breathe, to move, and to remember together.
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