Footnote Dance Made in New Zealand 2011

 Footnote Dance

presents

MADE IN NEW ZEALAND 2011

Wellington          Opera House      Sep 21/22     8pm

Nature of the Beast by Julia Milsom and Rick Harvie

 Subsequently Confused by Victoria Columbus

Instances (when we are like horses) by Malia Johnston

and

body/fight/time by Malia Johnston and Emma Willis

with music by Andrew McMillan,  Jody Lloyd, and Eden Mulholland

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Footnote Dance presents Best of Made in New Zealand 2011 with four new collaborative works from leading New Zealand choreographers together with our most talented musicians and film makers.

Violence, romance, collision, and frailty are all themes explored by New Zealand’s longest running professional contemporary dance company. The Season is renowned for presenting new works that are in turn heart-warming and daringly provocative. This year sees celebrated choreographer Malia Johnston expanding the horizon of physical possibilities, new comer Victoria Columbus take an existentialist turn, and Julia Milsom asks her beautiful dancers to behave like beasts!

Award winning choreographer and Artistic Director of WOW, Malia Johnston contributes two new works to this year’s Made in New Zealand Instances (When We Are Like Horses) performed recently for the City of London Festival, and body/fight/time a full-length work that playfully explores images of collision, impact and conflict. With co-director/dramaturge, Emma Willis and long-time collaborator, musician and composer, Eden Mulholland her work is an engaging look at how our bodies define us.

Victoria Columbus is an emerging talent, and her debut work with Footnote Subsequently Confused explores ideas of mimicry and exposure. With music by Jody Lloyd and dancers Lucy Marinkovich, Olivia McGregor and Manu Reynaud this piece takes a close-up look at what makes us tick.

Julia Milsom is one of Christchurch’s most daring choreographers. In her first commission for Footnote she explores the animal side of humanity with Nature of the Beast.  This comic yet subversive work is made in collaboration with Christchurch film-maker Rick Harvie and composer Andrew McMillan, and features dancers Olivia McGregor and Lucy Marinkovich. The work is influenced by Portuguese artist Paula Rego and her feminist work Dog Women.

Made in New Zealand 2011 is part of a performance tour for the REAL Festival and Christchurch Arts Festival.

Footnote Dance is directed by Deirdre Tarrant

Footnote Dancers: Lucy Marinkovich, Olivia McGregor, Emily Adams, Manu Reynaud, Francis Christeller