Ship Song
Sat 17 March, 11.30am & Sat 24 March, 10am. Shed 11, Wellington Waterfront. Tickets $10.50 per person
EXTRA SHOW DUE TO DEMAND - 1pm Sat, 24 March
World Premiere
Ake Ake Theatre Company, New Zealand
After sold-out performances of Our Secret Garden at the 2005 Festival, Ake Ake Theatre Company returns with this brand new show.
We all come from somewhere; look back far enough and that somewhere was across an ocean, or over a sea. In this universal tale of crossing over, characters fly high and slither low as they tell of journeys to new horizons. People swim, sail and hunt within the depths, changing their lives forever. Enjoy this spectacular large-scale theatrical circus performance filled with fun and drama, colour and darkness. Performed with live original music.
Tip: Book early to make sure you don’t miss seeing the hugely popular Ake Ake Theatre Company in action.
Artform: Live music matches acrobats and circus performance to thrill and entertain.
Amazing costumes, stilt dancers and acrobats will transform your world with a wonderful array of colour, movement and live music. Ake Ake weave a brand-new tale inspired by our mysterious inner drive to travel the oceans.
The show runs for approximately 50 minutes without intervals. Audiences will be seated on floors with mats. This intriguing show has so many different aspects to appeal to a range of ages from age 3.
About AkeAke Theatre Company AkeAke Theatre Company was formed in 1998 as an independent, experimental theatre company based in Wellington , New Zealand , that is committed to daily training and theatrical research.
It creates mythic, physical & vocal theatre productions for festival touring, as well as outdoor extravaganzas. AkeAke's creations reveal themselves through choreographic improvisation using dance, voice, stilts and live music and are born from folk music and tales from around the world.
It’s Kaupapa is to bring experimental theatre of the highest calibre to all people for the enrichment and development of the world's soul.
Performer Biographies
Jessica Sutherland, Co-director:
Jessica trained Drama and Dance in New Zealand as well as attending Ecole Jacques Lecoq, Paris . She has 10 years national and international experience in physical theatre, dance and yoga.
Jessica holds a Masters in Theatre Directing from Toi Whakaari: NZ Drama School and Victoria University , Wellington , NZ.
Rhys Latton, Co-director/Performer: Rhys is an award-winning professional performer/dancer/teacher who has trained with Pantheatre in Paris and the Kilda Northcott Contemporary Dance Co, and is a specialist in devised physical theatre. Rhys won Best Solo Performer in 2004 with I Am Skelly, produced by Ake Ake Theatre. He holds a Dip.Grad. in Theatre Studies and a B(A), Dip. Grad. in french ( Otago University ).
Performers:
Pipi Ayesha Evans : Professional actor and aerialist (BA Theatre Studies and Dip. Grad. Arts Otago University ; Dip Circo-Arts Christchurch Polytechnic). Recent performance credits include aerial roles in Maui ( St. James Theatre , 2005, Theatre Royal 2006) and WOW (Queens Wharf Events Centre, 2005). Pipi was a creator/performer in Our Secret Garden .
Salena Govind : Salena Govind is a passionate contemporary dancer and choreographer who has also trained is classical ballet, classical Indian and hip-hop. Groups she has worked with include Scrambled Legs Theatre Co in Christchurch , Slightly Synthetic and Rasa Dance Co in Dunedin .
Salena has performed her own choreographies in "Floor Space" at the Dunedin Public Art Gallery and in "Dance is Good for You" at Fortune Theatre Studio in 2005 in conjunction with Rasa Dance Co. Although this will be Salena's first major collaboration with Ake Ake, the artists have had close association and skill sharing since 2002.
Fergus Aitken : Famous as his alter ego Mr Fungus, Fergus has decades of experience as a mime artist, improviser and comedian. Fergus has performed as a stage-show, mobile act and/or street MC or entertainer or at many of New Zealand 's top festivals and events, and in over a dozen countries worldwide.
Sefton Bates : Freelance lighting designer who has travelled the world workign on cruise ships. He has worked with Ake Ake on several previous projects, including I Am Skelly, "Larry Thompson, One Youth's Tragedy" and our celebrated show at the 2005 Capital E National Arts Festival, Our Secret Garden.
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