Tasty Performance brings Galatos alive
The LIVE Series – an exciting new performance platform - presents three healthy doses of choreographic soup to warm your hands this winter.
Live art snacks of visual canapés, a taster for your thoughts, surprise your synapses – The LIVE Series promises to be the performance series of the year!
The LIVE Series
live choreographic dance and performance platform
presents
TASTE ME
TASTE ME is the first performance season on the menu.
Experience a test site for art and life through pop up performances and installations, crossing boundaries, exciting the senses, finding nooks and crannies, experiencing the new – bite into it!
TASTE ME presents works by Anna Bate, Katie Burton, Celine Sumic, We Should Practice, Amy Mauven, Natalie Clark, Georgia Giesen, SMS Collective and Ciarin Smith. Curated by Zahra Killeen-Chance and Christina Houghton.
After opening night 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 invigorate your frozen toes.
THE LIVE SERIES
live choreographic dance and performance platform
TASTE ME
June Tues 28, Wed 29 @ 7.30pm
GALATOS
17 Galatos St, Auckland CBD
All tickets $10
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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
