International Arts Scenesters Headline New Auckland Festival

January 12th 2012

International Arts Scenesters Headline Auckland’s Newest Festival

THE EDGE presents
INTERNATIONAL ARTISTS AT THE NEW PERFORMANCE FESTIVAL 2012!
17th – 25th February 2012

German documentary theatre mavericks Rimini Protokoll, join fellow award winning artists 2b theatre company, Fleur Elise Noble and auteurs Frank Van De Ven & Peter Snow for a mind-blowing international line up at the inaugural New Performance Festival this February.

Smashing boundaries in the theatre world with their subversion of styles, Rimini Protokoll bring real life to the stage in a way that no other theatre form has been able to. Their exploration of outsourcing work to low-cost countries, Call Cutta In A Box arrives in New Zealand on the tail end of a three year award-winning world tour. A complete overhaul of what audiences expect from performance, Call Cutta In A Box works with real people in real situations. One of the most exciting companies in German contemporary theatre, Rimini Protokoll have earned awards such as the prestigious Silver Lion at the 41st Biennale of Venice (2011), the Germany’s Mülheimer Dramatiker Prize in 2007 and the European Theatre Prize in the “New Realities” category in 2008. This highly anticipated season marks the company’s first time in New Zealand. The season is presented in association with the Goethe-Institut with funding from the German Federal Foreign Office.

Having picked up not just a five-star review but the Herald Angel Award at the 2010 Edinburgh Fringe, Canadian collective 2b theatre company presents their celebrated work Invisible Atom as part of the exciting international line-up. The one-man-show, starring Anthony Black, dabbles in scenarios such as economics, confidence crisis, ethics and physics. Very human, very real, Invisible Atom is an affecting story of personal tragedy from some of Canada’s most innovative and thought provoking theatre practitioners.

Her scrawlings and scribblings have come to life all over the world – but Fleur Elise Noble’s 2 Dimensional Life of Her is anything but two dimensional. Her intricate sketches come to life with projections, performance art and puppetry. As Noble loses control of her creations suddenly absolutely anything becomes possible. One of the darlings of the new performance scene, Noble’s work has performed across makeshift galleries and theatre spaces around Australia and international art festivals and is perhaps one of the indie-chic highlights of the New Performance Festival.

Respected performance artists of the improvised movement, Frank van de Ven and Peter Snow bring their famed The Death of Agency as part of their Thought/Action series. A “performance research investigation”, The Death of Agency demonstrates their aesthetic at work – traversing through the experiences of living and dying, and how they intersect with the intensities of loss and redemption.

IMMERSE YOURSELF IN A GENRE-BLURRING 8 DAY FESTIVAL...

CALL CUTTA IN A BOX: 17th – 25th, hourly (Thurs – Sat: 4:15pm to 11:15pm. Sun – Weds: 4:15pm to 9:15pm)
Meet at festival box office – Upper NZI, Level 2, Aotea Centre - $35 (booking fees will apply)
Presented in cooperation with the Goethe-Institut, with funding from the German Federal Foreign Office
INVISIBLE ATOM: 21st – 25th, 7:45pm
Herald Theatre, Aotea Centre – Adults $30, Concessions $25 (booking fees will apply)
2 DIMENSIONAL LIFE OF HER: 17th – 21st (Fri, Mon and Tues 6:30pm, Sat and Sun 4pm and 6:30pm)
Lower NZI 2, Aotea Centre – Adults $25, Concessions $20 (booking fees will apply)
THOUGHT/ACTION: THE DEATH OF AGENCY: 19th, 7:45pm
Lower NZI 3, Aotea Centre – $10 (booking fees will apply)

For more information visit http://npfestival.co.nz

ENDS