New Performance New York

We're organising a new festival of New Zealand theatre and performance in one of New York City's most exciting venues.

We want to take ten great shows by local artists into the heart of New York City for a festival in March 2015.

We've been offered an amazing opportunity- to present by La Mama Experimental theatre on Manhattan's lower east side.

La Mama has a truly legendary reputation. Its has been at the heart of New York's experimental theatre for more than fifty years, and we're so excited to have the chance to present a slice of our own creativity over there.

The pieces in the festival cover a huge range, from dance to stand up comedy, physical theatre to installation, and together they are a real cross section of the work that's going on down here in New Zealand.

The shows are already made, and we're paying our own airfares. We're working together as a team to make this happen.

What we need support with is the cost of promoting this festival in New York, and to get our set and props freighted around the world.

Please support the New Zealand New Performance Festival in New York. Its an incredible opportunity for our artists and for the whole community.

Thanks!

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ABOUT THE WORKS:

SLEEP/WAKE //PLAYGROUND NZ

Award-winning art-science performance with stunning visuals by director/designer Sam Trubridge. "When we sleep, we don't perform. But the moment we wake up, we enter the world again." Presented in Auckland Festival 2008.

CHET BAKER: LIKE SOMEONE IN LOVE //GOLDTHORPE CREATIVE

Jazz and theatre come together on stage in the gripping story of a US music legend- the haunting, unforgettable music that made Chet Baker famous, and the visceral, self-destruction that made him infamous.. "Mercifully and darkly funny" (The Age Melbourne).

ALL YOUR WANTS AND NEEDS FULFILLED FOREVER//PLAYGROUND COLLECTIVE

The acclaimed new theatre work by writer Eli Kent and Robin Kerr, from the award-winning PlayGround Collective. It is the eighth major work from the Collective since they formed in 2007, winning 9 Chapman Tripp awards since their inception.

FOR YOUR FUTURE GUIDANCE//BINGE CULTURE

Interactive performance in the style of a self-help seminar, which may involve time travel. "One of the country's most exciting, direct and original theatre companies." (NZ Herald)

BREAK-UP (WE NEED TO TALK) //BINGE CULTURE

The break-up lasts for six hours and is fully improvised. The audience may to come and go as they please.

ON THE CONDITIONS AND POSSIBILITIES OF HILARY CLINTON TAKING ME AS HER YOUNG LOVER//ARTHUR MEEK and GEOFF PINFIELD

A theatrical lecture based on one man's obsession. After a year living in New York, Arthur Meek revisits and refocuses his award winning 2008 mission from Helen Clark to Hilary Clinton, in time (he hopes) for the 2016 elections.

SO SO GANGSTA//JAMES NOKISE

Two time Billy T nominee and  comedy guild's 2013 male comedian of the year  James Nokise brings hip-hop culture back to the USA via the Pacific and Aotearoa NZ. A one hour combination of stand-up, powerpoint, and satire.

INK//MARIA DABROWSKA/AFTERBURNER

Contemporary dance in stygian darkness.
Dance in negative light, movement on the edge of darkness where performance takes place at the perimeter of vision.

NAG //MARCUS MCSHANE

Endurance based performance installation by Marcus McShane that constructs a self-propelled artist studio. The work brings together sustainable ethics, madcap invention and endless production of art.

THE LISTENING POSTS// LUDICITY

Pervasive theatre journeys through the streets of New York. This covert installation uses location-based mobile media to rethink notions of community, privacy and dialogue in relation to place.