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Credits:The Butterly Who Flew Into The Rave
From Aotearoa New Zealand, Oli Mathiesen with Lucy Lynch and Sharvon Mortimer present the award-winning The Butterfly Who Flew Into The Rave, an endurance-based dance work to the booming techno album 'Nocturbulous Behaviour' by Suburban Knight.
Exploring the movement vocabulary used in techno and rave culture, a contemporary nightclub between 3 bodies emerges. Relentless movement, seamless without pause, detailed down to every beat.
The atmosphere and culture of a 3-day rave condensed into a high art, streamlined performance where you watch the destruction of 3 human beings commence in front of you. Indulge in the pain, the sweat, the cathartic mess; a display of pure endurance to achieve a goal. A spectacle of the human body as a victim to music, as a victim to passion, as a victim to our endless desire to achieve more. To win and win again.
- Creator, Choreographer and Performer - Oli Mathiesen (he/they), Ngāti Manu, Ngāti Hine, Ngāpuhi
- Choreographer and Performer - Lucy Lynch (she/her), Ngāti Kahungunu
- Choreographer and Performer - Sharvon Mortimer (she/her), Ngāti Porou
- Performer - Celia Hext (she/her), Ngāti Kahungunu
- Producer and Stage Manager - Abbie Rogers (she/her), Kāi Tahu, Te Arawa
- Production Designer, Manager and Operator - Bekky Boyce (they/them)
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- Accessible for hard of hearing
- Language no barrier
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Age 15+
- Flashing lights
- Strobe lights
- Loud sounds
- Smoke/haze
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