Dry Spell

This is a telling of one night. A whirlpool of frenzied hedonism saturated in colour and energy, this work sinks to intriguing depths in a strange collection of equally murky and razor-sharp encounters.
 
Choreography: Rosamund Philpott
Dancers and Collaborators: Rose Tapsell, Oliver Caruthers, Nadiyah Akbar, Cheyanne Teka and Sebastian Geilings with initial development contributions from Georgia Beechey-Gradwell & Anu Khapung
Original score: Eden Mulholland 
Lighting Designer: Lisa Maule
Costume Design: Hannah Lee Turner
 
“We returned from interval to Rose Philpott’s “Dry Spell”, which depicts the depraved intestines of contemporary capitalism….“Dry Spell” deconstructs the terrifying vapidity of our botoxed life, where even the way we breathe is a plastic, self-commodifying practice….Nadiyah Akbar and Cheyenne Teka are gleaming, magnetic — the force of their eye-gaze penetrates far into the Opera House stalls. As the night progresses, the guests’ decorum slowly unravels. They fall into the delirious underbelly of the AM. The climax of “Dry Spell” is an intoxicating solo by Sebastian Geilings, who burns through space in a beautiful study of delusion — the internet’s favourite gasoline.” Amit Noy, Theatrereview
 
Dry Spell was commissioned in 2020 by Footnote NZ Dance for the double bill Undercurrent alongside Japanese artist Kota Yamazaki. It returned as a full length work in 2022. 
 
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Images by Kerrin Burns