Weg: A-Way
Multi Awarded
Weg: A-Way by multi awarded, highly innovative choreographer, dancer and performance artist Alexa Wilson, is a visual feast of fiercely playful, ritualised performance art. Dance, live music and video installation take the viewer on an interactive journey through the mind and body, exploring the ghosted objectified subject and reflecting the self as other.
Renowned for her cutting edge performances, Alexa’s work has been acknowledged numerous times throughout her career, most recently as winner of four Auckland Fringe Festival Awards for Weg: A-Way including Best Dance, Best Dance Performer, Auckland Arts Festival Award and The Fringe Award. In 2009 she won the Tup Lang Scholarship for Toxic White Elephant Shock and in 2004 Best New Work by an Emerging Contemporary Choreographer by the New Zealand Listener for Magic Box. She received a Goethe Institute Scholarship to study German in Berlin in 2009 and worked with Anna Macrae during a residency at Impuls Tanz in Vienna the same year.
Alexa Wilson has spent ten years as an experimental choreographer, dancer and video / performance artist, recently returning to New Zealand after two years living in Berlin.
Weg: A-Way is shaman magic…the dancing sections were exquisite and gorgeously articulated…
Val Smith, Theatreview, 11 March 2011
Wilson’s creativity is a rich complex feast which deserves to be explored more fully… Her unnerving clarity and audacious style reveal an intellect and imagination capable of a major work.
Francesca Horsley NZ Listener 2004
Refusing to retreat into discipline-bound obscurity, it claws at the boundaries and draws in many energies, all wound into an ecstatic dance of celebration and warning. A truly spiritual effort.
Josh Rutter, www.yellingmouth.blogspot.com 2009
Please Note: Contains nudity & sexually explicit material
Showing In:
Auckland
Dates:
Saturday 08 Oct - 9pm
Venue:
Q Theatre - Loft
Tickets:
$20 per person
Show Duration:
80 min
