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Sleep science goes onstage

Sleep science goes onstage


Dancer Maria
Dabrowska performs in new Fringe Festival show
Sleep/Wake.
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Dancer Maria Dabrowska performs in new Fringe Festival show Sleep/Wake.

Monday, January 14, 2008
Sleep science goes onstage

Art meets science in a new theatre production opening in Wellington this month that explores the science of sleep.

Sleep/Wake blends dance, science and performance design to explore the world of the unconscious, revealing those things that lie dormant within us: hidden performances of the self – obsessions, ambitions, and dreams.

Internationally-recognised sleep expert Professor Philippa Gander of the University’s Sleep/Wake Research Centre has teamed up with Wellington director and designer Sam Trubridge to create an exciting theatre experience.

Professor Gander says Sleep/Wake blends draws on the latest sleep science to tell the story of waking up – physically, metaphorically and politically.

“An important part of being an academic is presenting your research to the public," she says. "I wanted to do something completely novel. Sleep/Wake gives me the opportunity to share sleep science in a creative way.”

Mr Trubridge says although we all sleep for about a third of our lives, most of us know little about what actually goes on during that time.

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"When we sleep we don’t perform but the moment we wake up, we enter the world again." he says. "We start to put on our costumes, our make-up, building ourselves up until we’re ready to face the world – and ready to take the stage.”

Sleep/Wake will be performed in eight shows at The Print Factory, a warehouse previously occupied by a printing business in King Street, Newtown, Wellington, the first on 31 January.

Performers include Elizabeth Barker, James Conway-Law, Maria Dabrowska, Claire Middleton and Ella Robson-Guilfoyle. Original music and sound design are by Bevan Smith, and lighting is by Marcus McShane. Bookings are at Ticketek.

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