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Satisfaction of Touch (A Response to ‘Our Jurisdiction’)
Eliana Gray tries to move along “through spaces of physical reality and psychological stipulations,” in this review of dance work ‘Our Jurisdiction’.
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Before Karma Gets Us: Magic, Chaos, and Clowns
Magic, dance, music, monologue and everything else in between. gorm hendo is left in stitches from laughing in this review of ‘Before Karma Gets Us’.
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Plastic by Stacey Teague
Through the pages of Stacey Teague’s new poetry collection, ‘Plastic’, Isla Huia holds her breath. When the final poem ends, she comes back up for air to share her thoughts.
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Cowboy Dreaming — A Response
Enveloped by the soft edges of this devised work—all tossed sheets, projected clouds and Elvis classics—Isabelle Hoskyn writes of Lunar Collaborative’s ‘Cowboy Dreaming’.
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The Bloom — A Response
We first sent Tate Fountain to review Jessie McCall’s work back in 2022. Now in 2024, McCall has a new work, ‘The Bloom’ as part of the Auckland Pride Elevates. Naturally, we sent Tate along to see the artistic evolution.
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The Butterfly Who Flew Into The Rave — A Response
Through the unce unce unce of ‘The Butterfly Who Flew Into The Rave’, Elise Sadlier pulls together some thoughts about the endurance-based dance work.
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Club Waack — Audaciously Dancing at the Intersections of Immersive Theatre and Community Building
From inside a re-imagined Raynham Park converted into a disco-bumping ‘Club Waack’, Zech Soakai gets shuffled across the dancefloor. With the downlow for bad apple, he reports back.
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Scale the Face — A Response
After catching ‘Is This All That You Had In Mind?’ last September, Samantha Cheong builds out the Mum’s Sugar Club theatrical universe with this review of ‘Scale the Face’.
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‘Trust Issues’ Audiovisual Album — A Response
Samantha Cheong headed along to Bridgeway Cinema to experience adv’s audiovisual debut album ‘Trust Issues’. She reports back for bad apple with her thoughts.
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KITTEN by Olive Nuttall
Those who get it, get it. In review of Olive Nuttall’s debut novel, ‘kitten’, kī anthony writes of trans experience. Somehow they also manage to reference ‘Haikyuu!’, Torrey Peters and ‘My Immortal’ along the way.
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Killer Rack by Sylvan Spring
Jo Bragg sits down with bad apple contributor Sylvan Spring’s debut poetry collection ‘Killer Rack’ and lets us know whether this is one to read on repeat.