Here Now brings together acclaimed dance works on identity, migration and arrival by an exciting lineage of New Zealand dance makers, at Wellington Performing Arts Centre from November 21-22.

Kilda Northcott and Lyne Pringle will rekindle their award winning chemistry to present a teaser from their new dance work Lily. Here Now brings together acclaimed dance works on identity, migration and arrival by an exciting lineage of New Zealand dance makers, at Wellington Performing Arts Centre from November 21-22.

Kilda Northcott and Lyne Pringle will rekindle their award winning chemistry to present a teaser from their new dance work Lily.This poignant piece orbits around the central character of Lily Stevens played with great sensitivity by Northcott. With their trade-mark hilarity these seasoned performers navigate a thread through preparation for dancing competitions into the catatonic state that ensues after Lily's end of year recital and on into a vivid celebration of Barefoot dancing.

In this sensuous scene to Chopin's piano, Lily is joined by her 'students', an ensemble of young local dancers choreographed by Deirdre Tarrant.

"Presented by some of our most accomplished performers - providing a heady and hilarious insight into the life of long-serving Dunedin doyenne and ballet teacher Lily Stevens." New Zealand Herald

Liana Yew's work Kiwi (TEMPO 08's Best Choreography by an Emerging Artist) follows the story of her grandfather's migration from Guangzhou, China to New Zealand and the subsequent process of assimilation and loss of identity.

This solo is an uncompromising, provocative and emotional look into cultural misconceptions and the multiple identities of a 2nd generation New Zealander. Combining movement, text and video, Kiwi includes original music by Josh Rutter and footage filmed during Liana's return to her mother's village in rural China.

Landing, by Claire Lissaman, maps three concurrent journeys that converge in the present, involving loss and ignorance, reinvention of an ancestral migration, and the contradictions and confusions of knowing whether one has at last arrived. It is motivated by curiosity with the process of mapping -- remembering and forgetting, recognition and translation, transformation and exchange. Landing is performed with live music by Wellington musicians The Turns.

Don't miss this revealing offering of dance by some of our most accomplished performers.

What: Here, Now
Where: Wellington Performing Arts Centre, Vivian St
When: 7.30pm 21 & 22 Nov, 5pm 23 Nov
Cost: unwaged/waged - $15 / $18
Doorsales only, Cash only

Image: YouTube clip of Lily

19/11/08

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