Malik Nashad Sharpe – otherwise known as Marikiscrycrycry – has been investigating the emergence of horror in contemporary live performance as well as the use of it in his own practice. During his Study Room residency at LADA he approached horror as a research tool to tease out an alternative tradition of choreographic practice that contains social resonance and fantastical outcomes, and constitutes a suggestive and speculative lens through which performance can be contextualised. Culminating his residency, this talk will highlight some of the utility of making horror as a performance practice, and explore the genre’s potential as a framework for seeing, reading and working with contemporary live performance.