The Horizon Is Ever Present
Site specific dance installation
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The Horizon Is Ever Present celebrates our surroundings, reminds us to have moments of presence, and offers a space to be grateful for nature’s vastness and timelessness. The work is a live site specific performance and digital installation (via Instagram), and subverts the myth of Narcissus - instead of passers-by becoming self-obsessed with their bodies, they are given a space to become obsessed with our horizons, architecture, and framed real life.
Pictured are: Amber Liberté (Oval) Veronica Butturini (Rectangle) Leighton Rangi (Square) Images (c): A Little Bit Photography |
Magnificent Remains
dance-theatre
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What remains when we offer surrealism to the body? How does one dance with the subconscious?
Magnificent Remains was a contemporary dance work by Brittany Kohler in collaboration with Dance Plant Collective, inspired by the surrealism movement. It nodded to the original Surrealists, who, in pursuit of liberation turned to the unconscious mind. The 2021 surrealists tried waltzing with surrealism - discovering, abandoning and following their noses without rationale. This was an insight into their investigations, a dip into a world where dreams are placed on a pedestal and logic is abandoned in favour of possibility. With movement based images of surrealism, Magnificent Remains was performed by a stellar cast of dancers. An incredible sound score has been designed by james risbey, Costume by Zoë McNicholas, and Lighting by Paul Bennett. Concept: Brittany Kohler for Dance Plant Collective With dancers: Natasha Kohler, Fa'asu Afoa Purcell, Amber Liberté, Tui Hofmann, Bella Wilson, Jacob Reynolds, Miriam Eksilden & Neža Jamnikar. Images (c): Jinki Cambronero |
APOCALYPTIC POLITIC // WE FLOAT |
"There are moments of playful disagreement on commands from the audience. Thoughts come to mind of how hard it is for humans to make a collective decision for each other and for this planet we live on called earth. Trying to respect different ideas, sooo many of us humans. So many voices need to be heard while the earth waits. Even though the earth is no longer at a point where it can wait."
-Theatreview, 2020. -- I am another entity entirely - no longer human. I am a simulation. I am the venturer, (c) the speed of light, I am Homosapien no more, but an evolution of a dying race. Pledge allegiance to the future: AI & Machine, intrinsically intertwined. Concept, Choreography & Performance: Amber Liberté Co-creators & Set-Design: Poppy Serano & Olivia Mahood Lighting Design: Paul Bennett Images (c): Courtney Rogers |
Synesthesia
performance art
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Synesthesia is a call for you to explore colour, sound, space, form, shape, texture, perspective & design. Each sensory silo has an unforgettable story, some seductive, startling and thought-provoking. From shocking pink to acid yellow enjoy synesthesia, as we unveil fragrances infused with innovative hemp-science in a colourful sensory experience. Navigate each silo before designing your own evidence-led elixir for more beauty, performance and well-being. Simply select your desired mood.
100% pure. 100% legal. Concept facilitation & event organisation: Samantha Copland Mermaid performance piece: Amber Liberté Image (c) Veronika Sola Photography |
Pigeon Loops
dance-art
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The genesis of Pigeon Loops developed after spending a number of days visiting a variety of buildings in Iasi, and spending time researching the historical, political and social importance and resonance of particular buildings and areas. After some deliberation, Liberté chose to focus her residency piece on Piata Unirii - the city's main square, both due to the historical and ongoing centrality to life in Iasi, and because of the possibilities and inspiration it offered choreographically - from architecture, to function, to the people that pass through daily, and even to the ubiquitous pigeons.
The overall vision was to create a pedestrian style dance-piece using the aforementioned aspects of Piata Unirii and translating them into a movement sequence, for example; the universal, recognisable gestures of someone waiting to meet a friend, or the repetitive yet still somehow chaotic movement of the pigeons that are so characteristic of the square. Liberté wanted this dance work to be supported by video-projection and visual artwork to provide insight into her process, as well as working with other artists - painters and dancers - to bring a range of perspectives and a collective strength. Choreography/concept: Amber Liberté Dancers: Amber Liberté, Laura Lauris, Anna-Maria Hanganu, Karina Cargo, Andra Romascanu, & Dana Cogălniceanu |
George & Me
TV series
Come along on a journey through the weird and wonderful human body with George and his friend Me.
Director: Sean Larkin
Cinematography: Tom Chibnall-West
Production Company: HeiHei
Series link:
https://www.heihei.nz/config/browse/screen/video-content/collection/details?cid=4902
Director: Sean Larkin
Cinematography: Tom Chibnall-West
Production Company: HeiHei
Series link:
https://www.heihei.nz/config/browse/screen/video-content/collection/details?cid=4902
Treat Her Right: Women's Pay Equality, NZ
TV Commercial/Campaign
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The current gender pay imbalance is 13%. In 2016, women's average weekly earnings ($432 a week) were 61.1% of men's earnings ($707 a week).
Based on current figures, it’s going to take 45 years before women will be paid equally. And that’s not on. Equal pay affects everyone: the recent uni grad just starting her first job, the mum who is taking a couple of years out of paid work to raise her children, or the home care worker who gets paid less than a male doing a comparable job. Treat Her Right is about all of us. The Equal Pay Act 1972 prohibited discrimination of employees’ pay rates based on their sex. It also stipulated men and women in the same job must be paid equally; as well as equal pay for work of equal value for jobs that mainly employ women. However, these terms have not been fully implemented since 1972—shown in our current 13% gender pay imbalance. See the website here: treatherright.co.nz/about Director: Loren Horsley Cinematography: Ginny Loane Choreography: Shut Up & Dance Crew |
Like Sex
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The Kids aren't alright.
Prudes, sluts, the users and the used - in a carousel of episodic scenes, Like Sex tears into the tropes on teenage sex, as social, political, and sexual desires smash together with no sign of slowing down
Director: Chye-Ling Huang
Writer: Nathan Joe
Producer: Nathan Joe & Jordan Keyzer
Prudes, sluts, the users and the used - in a carousel of episodic scenes, Like Sex tears into the tropes on teenage sex, as social, political, and sexual desires smash together with no sign of slowing down
Director: Chye-Ling Huang
Writer: Nathan Joe
Producer: Nathan Joe & Jordan Keyzer
Antony & Cleopatra
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The Pop-Up Globe AKL hosts Shakespeare's Antony & Cleopatra, directed by Vanessa Byrnes and presented by Byrnes Productions Ltd. with support from Unitec and TAPAC.
This radically-reworked version of the play offers one of the greatest love stories ever told, and is performed by a large cast of young, fearless, energetic, musical professional actors. The play is trimmed down to 100 minutes long, and promises to deliver a new understanding of this timeless tragedy in a contemporary setting. |
