Touch Compass 2008 Season of Dance
Harmonious Oddity
Winner of four tempo˚ awards in 2007, Touch Compass this year returned to the 2008 Tempo˚ New Zealand Festival of Dance for a strictly limited season, with an improvised work, and two new works that have been two years in the making.
The season’s new works are
Harmonious Oddity, a stunning dance/theatre work by Pedro Ilgenfritz and Catherine Chappell, and
Grotteschi, a powerful duet by Suzanne Cowan.
“Dreamlike and challenging,
Harmonious Oddity bridges subconscious and conscious realities, featuring surreal, Fellini-esque scenes played out live on stage and on film. Dancers perform not only on their feet, but also on wheels and suspended in mid-air in a wacky and humorous work that will transport you into another realm,” says Touch Compass Artistic Director Catherine Chappell.
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Grotteschi explores the myth of the classical body and grotesque body, how each contains the other, and how they ultimately transcend any categorisation.”
Joining the company this year were Brazilian actor, theatre director, playwright, lecturer, and physical theatre expert Pedro Ilgenfritz, and lighting designer Jenny Pullar whose work includes designs for 191 different productions in 12 countries.
NOW SHOWING:
See Touch Compass at the Hamilton Disability Pride Film Festival
Sat 15 Nov at 8pm and 9pm
Meteor Theatre, Victoria St
Entry: $10 / $5 concession from Ticket Direct
Counter Sales: All Hamilton City Libraries
Phone Sales: 07 838 1111
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Door Sales: one hour prior to event
See Touch Compass at Dunedin Diversity Week
Touch Compass performances and workshop
Performances - 29th Nov at 7.15 pm and 30 Nov at 1.15pm
Workshops - Sunday 30 Nov at 3.15pm
Mary Hopewell Theatre
Dunedin College of Education, 145 Union St, behind the library
Cost: Free
Contact: David Howard – davidhoward@xtra.co.nz 0274821002
For further information contact info@touchcompass.org.nz or phone 021 989 447
Here's what the Auckland audiences had to say:
“What I particularly liked about Harmonious Oddity was the way in which Jesse's dream space seemed to fill the theatre.. every corner, every molecule of air felt affected by the gentle magic of this performance. Just simply, I was transported..." Celine Sumic – Audience member
“Thank you for a brilliant performance. Movement was stunning and expressions were unbelievably well portrayed. Thank you so much, can't wait for the next one!" Audience member
"A poignant, beautiful, playful, melancholic, marvellous show dear friends. I knew it but it all surprised me, and took me on an incredible journey. Fantastic, fantastic work." Holly – Audience member
I couldn’t have imagined anything like this. Challenges all sorts of built up ideas plus beauty and enjoyment. Words fail so I’ll stop." Audience member
The Touch Compass 2008 season of dance,
Harmonious Oddity, premiered at the Maidment Theatre in Auckland, 1st - 4th October 2008.