Love Me - Live at Galatos
The LIVE Series – an exciting new performance platform now presents the third of three healthy doses of choreographic soup to warm your hands this winter.
The Producing Project invites you to fall head over heels with LOVE ME, the final of The LIVE Series.
After biting into a testing site of nooks and crannies in TASTE ME and experiencing a different sensory blast in HEAR ME, The LIVE Series’ final season will get your heart racing with an explosion of dance that will engage, amuse, provoke and give our audience a feel-good time.
Whether you’re looking for love or looking to love, this show has something for everyone. Immerse yourself in the world of LOVE ME where roaming break-dancers will treat you right, stunning duets will delight and relationships will come under the spotlight. Witness the body communicate with power and humour, share a moment in time with Madonna and more.
LOVE ME features a bold new work by Fringe Festival award winner Alexa Wilson alongside works by, Jesse Quaid, Serene Lorimer, Tia Reihana, Bianca Hyslop, Kerrin Burns and Lucy Beeler, Rapz Maihi and Lydia Zanetti. Curated by James Wenley and Rapz Maihi.
LOVE ME, Love You.
The LIVE Series TASTE ME and HEAR ME had great audiences and got the reviewers attention, don’t wait - LOVE ME will surprise and please.
After opening night (30 August) performance, the audience is invited to join the artists and a panel of guest speakers for the forum, “Difficult Discussions”. Focused on themes relating to choreography and curation, this is an opportunity to engage your thinking in current discourses on performance!
After the highly successful Works in Progress or WIP (DANZ interns of 2010), THE PRODUCING PROJECT – a group of multi-talented artists – was brought together to create The LIVE Series. Their aim is to support and encourage independent dance and performance artists in developing body in performance ideas.
THE PRODUCING PROJECT looks forward to presenting a show that will excite, challenge and get your heart pumping!
THE LIVE SERIES
live choreographic dance and performance platform
LOVE ME
August Tuesday 30 & Wednesday 31th @ 8pm
GALATOS – 17 GALATOS ST, Auckland CBD
All tickets $10
Bookings: www.eventfinder.co.nz (keyword The LIVE Series)
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THE PRODUCING PROJECT is an artist run production and curation collective facilitated by DANZ, Centre for Choreographic Research Aotearoa, Dance Studies at the National Institute of Creative Arts and Industries, The University of Auckland and MIC Toi Rerehiko and is funded by Auckland Council. THE PRODUCING PROJECT is James Wenley, Christina Houghton, Maximus Smitheram, Rapz Maihi, Zahra Killeen-Chance and Lydia Zanetti.
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James WenleyJames is an independent critic and writer for his Auckland Theatre Blog Theatre Scenes (http://www.theatrescenes.co.nz), and is a producer and director for 'Theatre of Love' (http://www.theatreoflove.co.nz).
He began reviewing theatre for Craccum Magazine in 2008, and was the Theatre Editor 2009-2010 before establishing TheatreScenes.co.nz in 2011. In 2010 he completed a Bachelor of Arts Honours in Drama from the University of Auckland and is currently studying towards his Masters.
He has directed and produced productions of Macbeth and The Who’s Rock Opera TOMMY at the Musgrove Studio, and was the Assistant Director for Auckland Theatre Company’s Young & Hungry smash hit ‘Fitz Bunny: Lust for Glory in 2010’. He was president of Auckland University's Stage Two Productions 2009-2010 and has produced three seasons of the short play program ‘Stir Fried Plays’, as well as ‘The Libertine’ and David Mamet’s ‘Sexual Perversity in Chicago’.
James’s latest production for Theatre of Love was the NZ debut of Jailbait by American playwright Deirdre O’Connor at Galatos Upper Lounge in May 2011, which he also directed. Theatreview’s Lillian Richards said it was “Mesmerizing, with suspension of disbelief achieved, I think this is a play that deserves to be seen.”
In 2011 he has been involved with the Producing Project - a joint initiative between Dance Studies NICAI University of Auckland, DANZ and MIC Toi Rerehiko to train and develop Producers. After attending workshops in Producing (Felicity Letcher), Marketing (Christine Young), Publicity (Rachel Lorimer) and Lighting (Sean Curham), the team has produced three seasons of dance shows featuring short works from established and emerging dance artists. His specific responsibilities where as Technical Manager (Taste Me, Galatos, June), Producer (Hear Me, Gundry Street, July) and Curator (Love Me, Galatos, August).
Through working with Lighting Mentor Sean Curham in this project, James was approached to produce the final work in Sean’s experimental Ghosting Series Are You Scared of Me? at the Corbans Estate Arts Centre in July 2011.
In 2012 he is producing Theatre of Love's 'Season of Obsession', working closely with established and emerging local playwrights.
Contact James: theatreoflove@gmail.com
