Münster.

With your help we can create our full length show, Münster!

Our Campaign

We are a group of five emerging dance artists who, for the last year, have been working on Münster, an ambitious, debut, full-length dance work, featuring some incredibly talented artists from Tāmaki Makaurau.

The support we hope to receive from this campaign will give our team the security of being paid for their time and ensure that we will not be forced to postpone this work again. With that certainty, we will be able to completely immerse ourselves into the remainder of our creative process and deliver the best possible production to the audiences of Tāmaki.

About Münster

Multiple men who claim they can speak to God, twelve apostles, sixteen wives, and a collective descent into madness make for a little-known historical event that is too absurd to be anything but the truth.

Münster, set in an era of social upheaval and drawing from the rich historical tapestry of 1530s Germany, is an exploration of an age and society in flux, and what happens when our overarching social constructs cease to function.

Encased by place and time, souls bound together by presumed guilt, a world descending into chaos and conversations with the deity of your choosing. Münster invites you into a domain of belief, manipulation and prophets, counterfeit or otherwise.

Matched Funding

We have been lucky enough to be selected as a recipient of the Auckland Arts Comeback match fund, which means that for every dollar donated a dollar will be matched, up to $2000. With this in mind, we aim to raise a total of $4000.

Every dollar donated will be doubled.

Your help will go towards...

• Paying our artists and collaborators for their time
• Equipment hire and set/sound design
• Filming our live shows, so this work reaches audiences who can't make it in person
• Staging our season in May 2022

Thank you so much for your support! 

The Team behind Münster

Creative Direction – Jacob Reynolds

Jacob is a freelance movement practitioner working primarily in  Tāmaki Makaurau. Since graduating from Unitec in 2019 he has been lucky enough to perform in works for different festivals and choreographers. He was co choreographer of award winning piece Appe-Tight for short and sweet 2019 and the recipient of the 2021 Wellesley New Graduate Residency.

Dancers / choreographic collaborators

Elani Austin-Tennant is a movement artist and composer from Kirikiriroa, currently based in Tāmaki Makaurau. In 2019 Elani graduated with a bachelor of performing and screen arts majoring in Contemporary Dance from Unitec, and since then has been both dancing and composing for a variety of creative projects.

Caleb Heke is a Cook Island Māori contemporary artist, born and raised in New Zealand. Caleb graduated Unitec with a Bachelors in Performing and Screen Arts Majoring In Contemporary Dance.Caleb has performed with Atamira Dance Company in Rānga Wā, sculpture on the golf and Te Wheke he’s also danced in a double bill show ‘Monotone Era’ with choreographers Jess Crompton and Carla Harre and danced in Jacob Reynolds  Wellesley New graduate residency for Münster.

Sharvon Mortimer is a freelance contemporary dance artist from Rotorua, who graduated as a senior scholar from Unitec in 2020. During 2020 she was thrilled to perform in Jessie McCall’s ‘Daybreak Estate’ as part of Experimental Dance Week Aotearoa. Last year, Sharvon worked with Jawline Dance Co. and presented new work with Oli Mathiesen as part of the NZ Fringe Festival.

Lulu Qiu is a freelance dance artist from Tāmaki Makaurau, a 2021 graduate from Unitec. She has already worked on multiple projects including ‘Vivid Dreaming’ (Jawline), ‘Devine Estate’ (Oli Mathiesen), ‘Münster’ (Jacob Reynolds) and understudying for ‘Double Goer’(Fostergroup)

Lighting design and technical operator

Paul Bennet is a freelance lighting and sound designer based in Tāmaki Makaurau. Since graduating from Unitec in 2016 Paul has worked on enumerable projects and has also been a venue technician for several theatres throughout Tāmaki, including Q, Basement and Te Pou theatres. Paul is also a Northern dance network board member.

Thank you to Cecilia Wilcox for her movement and choreographic contributions to the development of this work, we are forever grateful.

We would also like to give our sincere thanks to Katrina Todd and Wellesley Studios for their support and guidance during the course of this project, we appreciate it so much.

Photography credit: Lucy E Reynolds Photography