{"id":6975,"date":"2023-01-01T15:12:08","date_gmt":"2023-01-01T14:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dynamoworkspace.dk\/artistinresidense\/thom-monckton\/"},"modified":"2023-01-01T15:14:06","modified_gmt":"2023-01-01T14:14:06","slug":"thom-monckton","status":"publish","type":"artistinresidense","link":"https:\/\/dynamoworkspace.dk\/en\/artistinresidense\/thom-monckton\/","title":{"rendered":"Thom Monckton"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Thom Monckton is spending this residency to work on his performance &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/dynamoworkspace.dk\/program\/the-king-of-taking-in-essence\/?lang=en\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/dynamoworkspace.dk\/program\/the-king-of-taking-in-essence\/?lang=en\">The King of Taking<\/a> &#8211; produced by Kallo Collective. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">About the performance<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The King of Taking boasts circus, mime, and a whole lot of velvet. Allergic to normal flooring, a childish and petulant King can only walk on red carpet, and can&#8217;t move without an effective fanfare. His executions are unsustainably frequent as he callously barrels towards his own destruction. The King requests wrapped gifts from his subjects (you). Gifts can be old or new and will feature on stage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A performance for the public will take place on 9th of May in DYNAMO. More information and tickets &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/dynamoworkspace.dk\/program\/the-king-of-taking-in-essence\/?lang=en\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/dynamoworkspace.dk\/program\/the-king-of-taking-in-essence\/?lang=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here. <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">About the artist<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Thom Monckton<\/strong>\u00a0 trained for two years at New Zealand&#8217;s circus school CircoArts and two years at the physical theatre school\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/L%27%C3%89cole_Internationale_de_Th%C3%A9%C3%A2tre_Jacques_Lecoq\">Lecoq<\/a>\u00a0in Paris. He has worked around New Zealand as a solo artist and as an actor with the Ugly Shakespeare Theatre Company. He is now based in Europe. Thom Monckton is a company Founder and Artistic Director of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kallocollective.com\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.kallocollective.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Kallo Collective<\/a>. See more about Thom&#8217;s work here <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thommonckton.net\/\">https:\/\/www.thommonckton.net\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":6937,"template":"","class_list":["post-6975","artistinresidense","type-artistinresidense","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Thom Monckton - Dynamo<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/dynamoworkspace.dk\/en\/artistinresidense\/thom-monckton\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Thom Monckton - Dynamo\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Thom Monckton is spending this residency to work on his performance &#8211; The King of Taking &#8211; produced by Kallo Collective. 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