TWO CRONES AND A DESERT.Saturday 27 NovemberRon Ball Studio | Christchurch Town Hall 14:30 – 15:30 MATRIARCHAL KNOWLEDGE, A TICKING TIME BOMB AND A CLIMATE CHANGE TANGO. Monotonous crones weave themselves around a cracking desert in a suit. This work seeks to dismantle the stigma around the matriarch, attempting to strip away its gender and become […]
FVEY: UPSTREAM DATA COLLECTION. Saturday 27 NovemberLivestream Victoria Room | Christchurch Town Hall Ōtakaro River 10:00 onwardsFVEY: UPSTREAM COLLECTIVE.New Zealand has been a part of the Five Eyes Treaty since 1948. Spying on the Russians during the cold war, the Vietnamese during America’s invasion, on Kim Dot Com, on our Pacific neighbours, on every country the USA […]
NEON.Saturday 27 NovemberVictoria Room | Christchurch Town Hall 10:00 onwardsNeon is a filmed performance work, projected in large-scale to be viewed throughout the festival. The concept builds on Kittows sculptural and filmic practice, which considers ideas around reality in cinema and performance. Incorporating the performative pull of Summerhayes and Bosmans offbeat soundscape, a captivating play […]
PRESENT-ING.Sunday 28 NovemberRon Ball Studio | Christchurch Town Hall 20:30 – 21:30Tabula rasa. Present-ing is the first stage of a new collaborative project between Josie Archer, Kosta Bogoievski, and Steven Junil Park. They have been planning to make a show together for some time. It is the first show they will make together. They applied […]
I AM NOT YOUR DUSKY MAIDEN.Sunday 28 NovemberRon Ball Studio | Christchurch Town Hall 19:00 – 20:00I am not your Dusky Maiden is a multidisciplinary performance piece in which wāhine/women have been asked to come up with a response to the term “I am not your Dusky Maiden”. The sensational body or the storyteller and […]
THIS PIECE WON’T CHANGE THE WORLD.Sunday 28 NovemberRon Ball Studio | Christchurch Town Hall 10:00 – 11:00 A couple, perform a couple of couples. Harnessing a wide range of performative styles Matthew and Benedikte use everything at their disposal to present a humorous exploration of coupledom. What is real/actual/autobiographic is morphed into fiction leaving an uncertainty […]
EXTANZ VOLUME 1: AN EPIC ON POWER.Saturday 27 NovemberRon Ball Studio | Christchurch Town Hall 20:30 – 21:30 ‘Extanz Volume I: An Epic on Power’ is a gritty dive into the underworld of dance. The ugly, destructive, and problematic power structures that keep dancers sick and are rotting the field from the inside-out. Extanz is a […]
FIRST BUZZARD AT THE BODY.Sunday 28 NovemberRon Ball Studio | Christchurch Town Hall 14:30 – 15:30 First Buzzard at the Body is an experimental solo vocal performance loosely hung on a theme of birdhood. A setlist of poetic texts are subjected to transformative compositional processes, gutting them of meaning (regurgitated words, parroted mimicry) or stumbling through […]
CREAM PUFF & E-KARE PRESENT:IN THE PIT OF ETERNAL POTENTIAL BY E-KARE AND CREAM PUFFSunday 28 NovemberRon Ball Studio | Christchurch Town Hall 17:30 – 18:30Creampuff and E-Kare Present: in the pit of eternal potential… is an experiential and nuanced guided tour of Dystopian Late Capitalist mundane mediocrity set in the Climate Crisis. Please enjoy […]
WILD FABRICS. Saturday 27 NovemberRon Ball Studio | Christchurch Town Hall 16:00 – 17:00In its previous life a solo performance. Sits at the intersection of composition, video, speech, field recordings, and interview transcription. A recorded element transcribed. Transforming original material through the imagined body of the composer-performer. Hesitations, mistakes, rewinds, stops and starts become embedded […]