Dancing with compulsion
The dance theatre production made its debut at last year’s Fringe Festival. The show returns for eight performances in what director and choreographer Brigid Costello says is a reinvigorated and revitalised reinterpretation of the original work.
“This time the focus is more on the characters interacting with each other and how our compulsions, hidden anxieties and secret obsessions manifest themselves in private and in public,” Costello says.
“The show’s really a physical representation of an internal dialogue.”
Produced by Wellington performance group Pinwheel Productions this production of Thricely features Wellington dancers Jane Wenley (best known as the face of World of Wearable Arts), Anita Hunziker (a former Footnote dancer) and NZ School of Dance graduate Gina Andrews.
Thricely also features a reworked score by composer and Chapman Tripp Award nominee Tane Upjohn-Beatson. His music combines strange polyrhythms, irregular beats and sound effects, representing the repetitive quality of obsessions and compulsions.
Highlights include a dance in 7/8 and a remix of the popular 1980’s Tetris theme.
Costello says Thricely aims to blur the boundaries between dance and theatre.
“We’re not working with a strictly theatre or strictly dance methodology here. We’re making dance theatre.
Our intention is to bridge the gap between these two mediums and make something really special which both audiences can enjoy.”
Thricely? Precisely. A Pocket Full of Pips, Bats Theatre, June 16-25.
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