New Performance Festival 2012
Feb 17th-25th @ Aotea Centre
Resisting genres and conventional performance boundaries, the New Performance Festival takes shape this February in a bid to change your mind about what live performance can be. It's brought to you by the same people who engineered the Auckland Fringe last year... but unlike the Fringe, the NPF is fully curated (by Stephen Bain) and showcases 13 handpicked performances.
The Festival features international works brought to NZ from Canada, Europe, & Australia alongside brand new local shows - complimented by workshops and the music & Artist Ping Pong events at the Festival Club. A must-see for 'arts adventurers'.
New Performance Festival - Feb 17th-25th @ Aotea Centre
Tickets: The-Edge.co.nz.
A wee taste of what's in store...
* 2 Dimensional Life of Her by Fleur Elise Noble (Melbourne).
A festival favourite across New Zealand and Australia, Noble’s award winning mix of drawing, animation, puppetry, projection and paper is a richly imagined performance installation set in an artist’s studio. 2 Dimensional Life of Her exists in a parallel world in which everything thought to be flat becomes something else. Her drawings begin to reproduce themselves, drifting between surfaces, moving in and out of three dimensions, as the act of creation separates itself from the artist responsible for its beginnings.
* The Be/Longing: A Verbatim Play, by the University of Otago Theatre Studies.
Be | Longing tells the many stories of those who have migrated to Aotearoa, who have lived overseas for a long period and returned, as well as those from the ta-ngata whenua. Pioneers in documentary theatre, Theatre Studies at the University of Otago practice an extreme form of verbatim theatre using mp3 players to relay interviewees’ stories to actors in performance, resulting in an absorbing and poignant presentation of real events. Actors replicate the body language of the interviewees as well as their words.
* Show Pony, by Nisha Madhan & Alexa Wilson (Auckland).
Show Pony is a satirical look at the world of talk show television, celebrity ‘cult’ culture and public therapy through the lens of avant-garde performance. Created by Nisha Madhan - former Shortland Street favourite Shanti and Alexa Wilson - a multi award-winning experimental choreographer, this self-referential work is based on their own public roles within performance in New Zealand.
WATCH: New Performance Festival Trailer
WATCH: Fest-O-Vision Trailer, with our very own Jose Barbosa!