A Place to Stand … info
Karen Barbour’s short dance film Liminal is an exploration of how digital dance making can be re-conceptualized from a dancer’s perspective, rather than from a film-maker’s perspective. The result is a re-framing of the dancer’s body through choreographic, compositional and aesthetic strategies that highlight the liminal experience of being between.
Memory Triggers by Lisa Perrott, Jenny Spark and Lizzie Dobson. An interdisciplinary collaborative project which experiments with the notion of haptic audio-visuality, a more tactile, closer-to-the-body form of perception. This series of audiovisual works experiment with various compositions involving referential imagery, whilst also navigating connections between the New Zealand landscape and the human body.
Highly Strung (Lisa Perrott) is a surrealist psychodrama inspired by the Czech tradition of puppet theatre as well as Maya Deren and Alexander Hammid’s Meshes of the Afternoon (1943). Playing with Freudian and Jungian notions of the ‘multiple self’, Highly Strung is an allegory for power struggle between the inhibited self and the expressive self.
Dannielle Jaram’s Muriwai expresses an indigenous world-view that both space and time are interwoven subjects, neither existing without the other. For Maori, this belief means that we are continually aware of the presence of tipuna or ancestors and their influence on who we are and who we are destined to be.
A Place to Stand is a contemporary dance performance work by Karen Barbour, exploring experiences of cultural and personal identity. Through movement, projected images, sound and text, Karen delves into Pākehā experiences of belonging and multiplicity as a woman of Aotearoa.
Thursday 18 November
8pm
Telecom Playhouse Theatre
WEL Energy Academy of Performing Arts
University of Waikato
Gate 2B, Knighton Road
$5 door sales only
