The Absurdity of Humanity

Artistic director Shona McCullagh couples the striking works of Ross McCormack (Matter) and Lina Limosani (Whispers from Pandora’s Box) to form a stageblazing trans Tasman double bill, premiering in Auckland at Q Theatre in August 2016.

Matter by Ross McCormack (Creative New Zealand’s 2015 Choreographic Fellow) is a long anticipated theatrical work that contemplates feelings of belonging, love and failure amidst a forest of lonely totems. Created by one of New Zealand’s finest and internationally acclaimed dance artists with an absurdist eye for detail, McCormack says “I am fascinated by people bestowing huge importance and almost mythological or religious cathartic experiences to benign objects”.

Whispers from Pandora’s Box by Australia’s Lina Limosani (2015 Dame Peggy van Pragh Choreographic Award recipient) is a highly theatrical exposition on the dichotomy of good and evil within human nature. With a score created from mashed up film soundtracks and absurdist scores, this black comedy contains Elizabethan inspired costumes and shockingly timed fight sequences, promising both the macabre and humorous. Kill Bill meets Elizabeth I in this romp of surreal and action-packed pandemonium.

Times:
Wednesday 24 August: 7:30 pm
Thursday 25 August: 7:30 pm
Friday 26 August: 7:30 pm
Saturday 27 August: 2:00 pm
Saturday 27 August: 7:30 pm

More information and bookings on the New Zealand Dance Company website.