The Impossible Has Already Happened
As big as the ocean and as basic everyday life.
Footnote New Zealand Dance and MascallDance are flooding the nation's theatres with an international dance collaboration like no other.
The Impossible Has Already Happened brings together two nation’s stories of water amid a global climate crisis. Choreographers Claire O’Neil (NZ) and Jennifer Mascall (Canada) investigate the power and purpose of water. Water sustains, nourishes, disrupts and dazzles our planet. It draws parallels to our flowing lives, to stagnated situations, and presence of being. With a sense of urgency, this work highlights our precious natural resource and all it can achieve.
Dancers from both Footnote and MascallDance bring this vision to life, along with Marcus McShane, one of NZ’s most prolific designers working on Lighting and Set Design. The team is completed with Jason Wright who is creating an outstanding Sound and AV design.
Creative Team
Footnote Dancers: Emma Cosgrave, Veronica ChengEn Lyu, Airu Matsuda, Levi Siaosi, Cecilia Wilcox
MascallDance dancers: Allison Brooks, Ysadora Dias, Tobias Macfarlane
Choreographers: Claire O’Neil (NZ) & Jennifer Mascall (CAN)
Sound Design: Kathleen Nisbet & Jason Wright
AV Design: Claire O’Neil, Jennifer Mascall, Jason Wright
Lighting & Set Design: Marcus McShane
Costume Design: Anne de Geus
Costume Consultant: Ralph Escamillan
Touring Information
Carterton/Tarahai, Carterton Events Centre, 18 March 2023
Wellington/Te Whanganui-a-tara, Wellington Opera House, 21 March 2023
Taupō Great Lakes Centre, 29 March
Auckland/Tāmaki Makaurau, Q Theatre, 1 April 2023
Nelson/Whakatū, Theatre Royal Nelson, 5 April 2023