The New Zealand Dance Company (NZDC) is thrilled to present Time –a riveting triple bill from highly acclaimed New Zealand and Korean choreographers, Ross McCormack, KIM Jae Duk and Victoria Colombus. Each work speaks to a different concept of time using ideas of contrasting speeds, dystopian futures and the link of our present to the past.
Matter “an aesthetic and conceptual masterpiece” by Ross McCormack (New Zealand Arts Laureate) is a powerful work inspired by several multi-disciplinary artists, created by one of New Zealand’s finest and internationally acclaimed dance artists (les ballets C de la B). With an absurdist eye for detail, McCormack creates a mythological yet futuristic work where questions of purpose, indecision, and human obsession with order are contemplated within a surreal world of poles. With sound by Jason Wright and light design by Jo Kilgour this work is starkly powerful. “The world of Matter is a total triumph of collaboration, light, sounds, and ultimately… vision” (DANZ)
Choreographer KIM Jae Duk’s quartet Sigan draws from the dual themes of meditation and attack, with a dynamic score created by Jae Duk himself, featuring traditional Korean instruments: jang-gu (drum), kkwaenggwari (small gong) and jing (large gong) within a contemporary composition. The stunning dancers of NZDC shine in this work that is “...not only visually, but technically flawless.” (DANZ)
Victoria Colombus’ new work The Fibonacci is a reflection on the hidden pattern that weaves us together and reflects the harmony of our world. Colombus, alongside sound and spatial designer Rowan Pierce, use the mathematical Fibonacci sequence and its mysterious golden spirals as a point of departure, examining and creating a physical language that at its heart explores energy pathways through movement, as the connecting force between us all.
