Cat Ruka Presents New Treaty Militia
Cat Ruka Presents New Treaty Militia
Award winning
performance artist Cat Ruka is soon to present her latest
work NEW TREATY MILITIA, a theatrical protest that radically
explores
the contentious document of the Treaty of
Waitangi. It investigates how this document relates to
the way in which identity is
constructed – and perhaps
obsessed over – in New Zealand, and poses the idea that it
preoccupies Maori and Pakeha with an abstract
game of
power transferral. NEW TREATY MILITIA is a surreal and
decadent performance critique that strives to demonstrate
the
realities of how this document manifests in all its
horrifyingly dark and profoundly creative ways.
NEW
TREATY MILITIA is a duet between Cat and New Zealand born
dancer and performance artist Josh Rutter. Josh is currently
in Europe
and has recently been working on Stephen
Bain’s latest work When Animals Dream of Sheep on
the island of Terschelling in the Netherlands.
Over the
past two years Cat and Josh have established a strong
collaborative practice in various avenues of performance,
encouraging them to
approach choreography in a number of
different ways.
The show will premiere at the
Hebbel am Ufer performance centre in Berlin, Germany.
It will be developed and presented there as part of the
Matchpoint choreographer meeting, a 7-day event
curated by Jochen Roller and Anna Wagner. Cat has been
invited to participate in this event
along with 9 other
emerging artists from around the world, including the
critically acclaimed and highly successful European
choreographer
Matan Zamir. Also attending
Matchpoint as an artistic mentor is New Zealand-based
artist and curator Shigeyuki Kihara.
NEW TREATY
MILITIA will then be presented at Boutique Studios in
Brooklyn, New York. Boutique Studios is located right in the
heart of Bushwick,
an area that is fast becoming one of
New York’s most interesting hubs for underground artists.
It is a multi-purpose studio run by Kristin Mirabelle and
John Kazar who are both interdisciplinary artists with a
strong investment in the community of Bushwick. Cat is
interested in establishing
and maintaining an artistic
connection to New York after presenting her solo work
Playing Savage there last year to a full house.
The show will then return home to be presented as a
series of events for and on behalf of a range of communities
in New Zealand.
It will be shown at the Tempo Dance
Festival at Q Theatre in Auckland city, the Southside Arts
Festival at OMAC in Otara,
and as part of a special
double bill show in Dunedin (more details of this one-off
event in Dunedin will follow).
•
SEPTEMBER 11TH AND 12TH, HEBBEL AM UFER, MATCHPOINT
FESTIVAL, BERLIN
www.hebbel-am-ufer.de
• SEPTEMBER 28TH, BOUTIQUE STUDIOS, BROOKLYN
• OCTOBER 5TH AND 6TH, Q THEATRE,
TEMPO DANCE FESTIVAL, AUCKLAND
www.tempo.co.nz
•
OCTOBER 28TH, OMAC, SOUTHSIDE ARTS FESTIVAL,
OTARA
www.mfa.org.nz
•
DECEMBER 1ST, SPECIAL DOUBLE BILL EVENT, SECRET
VENUE, DUNEDIN
www.catruka.com
***For more
information please visit www.catruka.com and to stay up to date
with New Treaty Militia while it is overseas please visit
the
facebook event page http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=245988852098657.
Click attend and be in to win free
tickets.