Like This, Like Us

Georgie Goater and Oliver Connew are friends, good friends. Yet, their personalities are almost diametrically opposed. To Oliver, Georgie is absurd. To Georgie, Oliver is ridiculous.

This is the starting point for Like This, Like Us, the first in a planned triptych of new duets from award-winning choreographer (Best in Dance, NZ Fringe Festival 2012), Oliver Connew. Initially inspired by the dynamics of a friendship, two humanoids explore the rabid cult of individualism in a plastic-wrapped, ready-to-use world where the contemplations of science-fiction have invaded reality and supplanted the need for commonality. Like This, Like Us treads the first steps of a hypothetical path into our future.

Together with new music from accomplished musician Alfredo Ibarra, innovative lighting design by Amber Molloy and stage design by Valentina Serebrennikova, the alien-like physicalities of these performers take, as a reviewer has said of a previous work, a further 'leap across the yawning chasm of the landscape of "self" that has preoccupied a whole generation of choreographers before...'  [Jenny Stevenson, Theatreview] and instead address issues of a new generation.

Support is needed to get Like This, Like Us through the workshop stage and in front of an audience. Here on Boosted, arts supporters not only get the chance to be part of the next success of an emerging choreographer whose work has been described as 'a flawless show of style and substance' [Jennifer Sheenan, Dominion Post], but also a hand in the vital exposure of the exceptional artists who are coming along for this ride.

Your support is hugely appreciated.

Like This, Like Us

22 - 25 May 2013, 7PM
at Basement Theatre, Auckland

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