YOUR OWN PERSONAL EXISTER
“We must not touch our idols; the gilt comes off in our hands” – Gustave Flaubert
An exploration of idealisation, dehumanisation, and the ‘special child’.
A comissioned work for Footnote Dance Company’s NOW (New Original Works) 2016 season.
Q Theatre, Auckland, 2016
Te Whaea, Wellington, 2016
Mayfair Theatre, Dunedin, 2016
Centrestage, Invercargill, Southland Festival, 2016
Choreography – Jessie McCall
Performance –
Brydie Colquhoun, Jeremy Beck, Emma Dellabarca, Jared Hemopo, Lana Phillips
Brydie Colquhoun, Jeremy Beck, Emma Dellabarca, Jared Hemopo, Lana Phillips
“A sophisticated standout, with its well-developed enquiry into identify and the pitfalls of personal power – both taken and bestowed… beneath its seductive topping of light heartedness, the work delivers quite a punch on a subject that involves us all.”
-BERNADETTE RAE, NZ HERALD