Bathing with Elephants 26-28th January.

   The Girls, is only an eighth of the whole show Bathing with Elephants at the Civic 26th -28th of this month.   Only on for three days, with eight artists, I'm just saying you might kick yourself if you miss it.   

Hosted by Vitaman s Co-lab and STAMP, who are in turn hosted by The Edge, and taking the opportunity to use the Civic's Taj Mahal and Safari rooms, and the Wintergarden, while the Civic are 'in between' big shows.  

   My responsibility lies in a performance work of a different theatrical kind.  

           There are design, as well as technical and performance components in this piece. I’ve made this specifically for this context, and hope that it invites and teases the audience in a stagey girly kind of way.  I enjoy the magic of the unpredictable and here I hope that theatrical quality merges with a ‘gallery’ environment.  It’s my wish that the audience, -all set to peruse, (as you can’t help feeling you should be in the Civic), can to an extent feel transported for a moment or two back in time, and as well consider their presence in the moment of performative interaction.

            The 1930’s audience, was perhaps as lively and as ambitious as the building’s interior and flamboyant design.  A tribute to Stark, and the New Zealand showgirls influenced by Europe and America in 1930, the hope; toughness; desire; positivism; and the pride of the early 1930’s.  

Moulin Rouge .  Brassai