Footnote New Zealand Dance returns with electrifying production IYKYK (If You Know You Know), a double-bill of contemporary dance works by choreographers Holly Newsome and Forest Kapo.
Taranaki born Holly Newsome returns to the company to present the dance of life in Advance to Go. Queer, Indigenous performance artist Forest V Kapo (Te Atiawa, Ngāti Raukawa) explores how to save the world in Premonition, returning to Aotearoa after 10 years based in Dja Dja Wurrung Country- Bendigo Victoria Australia.
Both choreographers are creating their works alongside lighting designer Elekis Poblete Teirney, and with an immersive sound design by Emi Pogoni.
“As always, Footnote New Zealand Dance must be congratulated … audiences can be confident of performances to admire, to ponder and to discuss.” - Mona Williams, DANZ
With this latest offering, Footnote are bringing some colour and joy into people’s lives.
“We are excited to share a zinging, popping, pumping energy with our audiences with this show.” says Artistic Manager Anita Hunziker.
Pōneke | Wellington
Hannah Playhouse
20 - 22 July
Ngāmotu | New Plymouth
TSB Theatre Royal
27 July
Kerikeri
Turner Centre
2 August
As big as the ocean and as basic as everyday life.
Fantasy and reality collude with one another in this spiralling ascension of desire and disgrace.
You’re invited to join us for our sixth annual Winter Intensive! This workshop series is for dancers, movement artists and performance makers to come together and be guided through a week-long exploration.
Fantasy and reality collude with one another in this spiralling ascension of desire and disgrace.
Choreolab, our annual professional development event for freelance dance practitioners, will be in its 20th year in 2022! Applications are open now, so register your interest to start your year by making connections, exploring new practices and building on your unique interests.
For the iconic Newtown Festival, we’re performing a short excerpt of This.
As part of the Performance Arcade’s 10th birthday, we’re excited to be collaborating with BodyCartography Project to bring back festival favourite, closer. First performed by Footnote in 2016, closer lays bare the power of physicality and presence through a series of one-on-one performances, for one dancer and one audience.
With its trademark exploratory energy, this year’s ChoreoCo show, A Floor, Some Thoughts, and Us, is devised by dynamic choreographer Jeremy Beck. A regular feature on the New Zealand Fringe Festival calendar, ChoreoCo is Footnote’s short-term company of exciting dance artists. An homage to films that are set in one location, A Floor, Some Thoughts, and Us, sees five characters attempt to communicate with a mysterious entity. Broadcasting a lively dance-floor and some serious-looking equipment, A Floor, Some Thoughts, and Us is full of deadpan humour and massive dance moves.
Start 2021 in the best way possible.
Choreolab by Footnote New Zealand Dance is firmly established as the most significant professional development event for dance practitioners in Aotearoa New Zealand, drawing artists from around the country to the capital each summer.
We’ve got an occasion to mark and we want you by our side! 2020, the year that won’t be forgotten, also marks our 35th birthday as a national contemporary dance company. So on the 22nd August, for one night only, we invite you to gather with us and celebrate all the extraordinary people who have contributed to the history and future of Footnote, and help us go forth into the coming years with momentum.
