The Festival Club is free to enter. Buy a beer and settle in to an easy chair pre-show, or just drop in after work.
Each evening we will be hosting artist conversations in the Ping Pong Pit. Come down for a happy hour drink, and be audience to a live conversation and ping pong match, as guest artists speak about their work while playing a round of table tennis. The interviewer will play umpire and the artists will be playing to win.
A guest barber will also be controlling The Barber’s Chair as two of our guests intimately discuss their work over a haircut.
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Ping Pong Pit Matches 5.30pm – 6.15pm
Friday 17 Call Cutta in a Box vs The Risk of Listening with Tao Wells
Saturday 18 Ghosting Part 2 – A Cabaret vs Thought/Action: The Death of Agency
Sunday 19 2 Dimensional Life of Her vs I Am a Wee Bit Stumped
Tuesday 21 Be | Longing: A Verbatim Play vs Dance like a Butterfly Dream Boy
Wednesday 22 Invisible Atom vs A Slightly Isolated Dog
Thursday 23 Show Pony vs Wake Less
Friday 24 Providence vs Bert van Dijk
Saturday 25 John Downie vs Stephen Bain
Venue for the Festival Club: Upper NZI, Level 2, Aotea Centre
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Late Night Music: 10.30pm till late
Stay after the last evening show on Friday or Saturday to shake the creases from your trousers and the dreams from your head. Orchestra of Spheres, back from their European tour with All Tomorrow’s Parties, headline the first Friday, followed by Badd Energy. The second weekend kicks off with the masked line-up of Superstars of Westlynn.
Friday 17 / Orchestra of Spheres
An eclectic polyrhythm sound that has gained international recognition like a seismic dance cataclysm. orchestraofspheres.bandcamp.com
Saturday 18 / Badd Energy
New-wave rapper Jessica Hansell (Coco Solid) and underground axeman Sam Moore (The NeverEnds, Skeletor) join forces to make a psychedelic future duo. cocosolid.com/category/videos
Friday 24/ Superstars of Westlynn
A Jeff Henderson assemblage of adventurous dance collage with a superstar guest lineup.
Saturday 25/ Festival closing night
A musical gymkhana and unofficial dance marathon!
Late night music gigs: $5 on the door
Venue for the Festival Club: Upper NZI, Level 2, Aotea Centre
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Prague Quadrennial Design Installation
Pause with your paws at the PQ11 Architecture Exhibit table, on show at the bar throughout the festival. Fresh from exhibition at the Prague Quadrennial (international expo of performance design), the New Zealand exhibit of performance architecture showcases permanent and temporary buildings recently completed. The exhibition table is designed by Wellington architect and curator Amanda Yates.
Venue for the Festival Club: Upper NZI, Level 2, Aotea Centre
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