A brick wall lit by different coloured lights creates a rainbow mosaic backdrop for artist Stacy Makishi’s dance moves; a woman with a short grey bob and glasses, who is wearing a black long-sleeved shirt and black trousers. The chaotic crowd of people are joining in and display their unique poses, some with hands gesticulating, others joyfully still, sitting on the floor.

Walking Each Other Home

Stacy Makishi

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Information

Time: 4:30pm

Tickets: Pay What You Can (Recommended Price £12)*

*All orders subject to a transaction fee of £2.

Running Time: 1 hour 30 minutes (no interval)

Age Recommendation: 16+

This event takes place in person in our Members Library

Photo Credit: Alice Denny

What happens when our curiosity becomes larger than our fears?

Artist Stacy Makishi welcomes you just as you are – to a creative encounter celebrating the messy, imperfect parts we’re often told to hide.

Part workshop, part ritual, part party, Stacy moves from sharing intimate stories to silly games and dance, exploring how we build connection with ourselves and with each other.

Sprinkled with a touch of her signature ‘aloha’, you’re free to take part as much or as little as you like: join in, observe, take breaks, and return when you’re ready.

Let’s walk each other home, into the unknown, together.

 

‘Funny, warm, alive, heartful, authentic, joyful‘

‘Wonderful, joyous, life-affirming, thought-provoking‘

Giddy Up, Home Live Art 2025

 

This event is part of Bloom, a programme of cutting edge performance developed at BAC. Bloom is curated by BAC’s Programme Producer Ella Gamble.

 

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Gallery

Artist Stacy Makishi, a woman with a short grey bob and glasses who is wearing a black frilled shirt with mesh sleeves and a black skirt with tights, stands in the middle of a relaxed yet tentative crowd. The crowd are all wearing Hawaiian-inspired flower wreaths around their neck. The room is warmly lit with pink and stippled colours from the visible lighting rigs on the celling.
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A black and white image of Stacy Makishi, a woman with a short grey bob and large black framed glasses, wearing a long-sleeved shirt and light dungarees. Her arms are outstretched, gazing upward with a joyful smile.
Stacy Makishi, a woman with a short grey bob and large black framed glasses, wearing a black long-sleeved shirt with black sash and all black trousers and socks. Her expression is full of glee with her mouth wide and arms open, motioning towards clapping.
At Stacy Makishi’s interactive workshop, a group of adults are dancing together all wearing colourful Hawaiian flower neck garlands. The people in the foreground are lit with bright pink light.

Biographies

Stacy Makishi

Stacy Makishi is a transplant from Hawaii who found paradise in Dalston, London in 1993. Stacy believes in art’s transformative power and strives to share her creative process with others in order to put more aloha into the world. A cross-fertilization of live art, theatre, comedy, film and visual art, her work ranges across stage performances, large-scale participatory projects and intimate one-to-ones. It is as complex as it is accessible, humorous as it is challenging, visual as it is literate. 

Made with a strong collaborative ethos, Stacy’s solos have been presented across Europe and beyond, including TATE Modern, Southbank Centre, Royal Albert Hall, Traverse Edinburgh, BRUT:Vienna, Estonia Academy, Mladi Levi, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and La Mama New York. Her large-scale participatory works include commissions for the Wellcome Collection and for Contact Young Company, Manchester.

Credits

Creative Team

Jo Allitt
Meg Hodgson
Amy Daniels
Mary Tooley
Vick Ryder
Claire Nolan
Sue Baynton
Lois Weaver
Lisa Asagi
Nikki Tomlinson

Access

PRE EVENT INFORMATION

This event takes place in person in our Members Library. This space is on the first floor, with step-free access via a lift.

If you have booked a ticket you will receive an email from us before your performance detailing important information about your visit.

PERSONAL ASSISTANT/COMPANION TICKETS

If you require the assistance of a friend or helper to attend, we can make a free ticket available for your companion. You can book access companion tickets online or contact the Box Office to book by emailing boxoffice@bac.org.uk.

To book a free access companion online:

  • log in to your account here
  • go to ‘Other preferences’ and tick ‘I require a personal assistant/companion’.
  • Choose the performance, date and seats you would like and if you add at least 2 tickets to your basket, then one of these will automatically become free.

PERFORMANCE INFORMATION

Content

  • References to grief
  • References to death

All performances will be Relaxed. We invite you to make yourself comfortable and move around if you need to and if you need to leave the performance at any point you will be allowed to return to the space when you feel ready.

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We want our shows to be as accessible to as many people as possible.

We offer tickets to most shows on a Pay What You Can basis throughout the year.

Tickets for Bloom performances in 2026 start at £9.50, and we have recommended pricing to help you choose a price that works for you.

We know that ticket price is a huge barrier for some. If you can afford to pay the recommended price or more, choosing to do so supports those that can’t. It makes it possible for us to continue to offer Pay What You Can and welcome those who otherwise wouldn’t be able to attend.

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