For their 2007 Forte season, NZ contemporary dance company Footnote presents Miniatures, choreographed by Malia Johnston. The piece explores the beauty of the small things in life, and the constraints and boundaries we burden our lives with. Footnote's dancers move gracefully through an intricately-designed, multi-dimensional stage of boxes, ladders, and precarious pedestals in a high-energy performance.For their 2007 Forte season, NZ contemporary dance company Footnote presents Miniatures, choreographed by Malia Johnston. The piece explores the beauty of the small things in life, and the constraints and boundaries we burden our lives with. Footnote's dancers move gracefully through an intricately-designed, multi-dimensional stage of boxes, ladders, and precarious pedestals in a high-energy performance.First performed in 2004, Miniatures is one of Johnston's most acclaimed works and has been re-designed for Forte - an initiative by Footnote Dance to present work by an outstanding choreographer.

Johnston has emerged as one of New Zealand's best choreographers; she is renowned for her breathless physical performances and is the principal choreographer for the World of Wearable Arts. With Eden Mulholland (from the band Motocade), Johnston has formed one of the most exciting dance collaborations in the country.

"Footnote is absolutely over the moon to welcome back Malia for the 2007 Forte season," said Footnote company director Deirdre Tarrant. "She wowed us all with her work Broken by Design earlier this year in our season of Made in New Zealand and I think that Miniatures must be considered one of New Zealand's best homegrown contemporary dance works.

"The physical beauty in Miniatures will leave the audience astonished and in the finale of Broken by Design the energy and flight of the dancers' moves is breathtaking," she said.

The Footnote Dance 2007 Forte Season of Miniatures and Broken by Design begins 6 October with performances in Christchurch then tours on to Dunedin, Auckland and Tauranga before concluding with two Wellington performances 26-27 October.

2/8/07