enter//return
This work explored my preoccupation with the words enter and return. It asked:
What does it mean to witness?
How do we return to ourselves?
What is the smallest movement (and mark) that you can make?
How can we fold rest into making performance?
What are forms of dance that you might not think as dance?
How can we make accessible work for disabled artists?
Commissioned by Noa Winter for ‘Queering the Crip, Cripping the Queer’ performance festival held at The Sophiensaele theater, Berlin, Germany, September 2022.
The guest performance was made possible by funding from the Senate Department for Culture and Europe.
With development support from: Creative New Zealand, Q Theatre, The Basement Ideas-in-Resiidence New Zealand and the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art, New York.
I do not own the rights to any images by Marya Wallraff please email her for permission and license fees at mail@mayrawallraff.de
Creative Team:
Curator: Noa Winter
Concept, audio visuals and performer: Pelenakeke Brown
Dramaturg: Anapela Polata’ivao
Producer/Production Manager: Nahyeon Lee
Performance Design: Imogen Zino
Live Sound Performer and Access worker: Deborah Lagaaia Paulo
Lighting Design Germany/Operator: Elliott Cennetoglu
Sound Design: Jesse Austin-Stewart
Motion Design: Jade Paynter
Taonga Puoro: Rob Thorne (Ngāti Tumutumu)
Lighting Design Aotearoa: Paul Bennett
Drumming Expert: Leki Jackson-Bourke
Recorded Vocals: Joanna Mika-Toloa
Production Support: Jessica Palalagi
Audio description: Gina Jeske, Gerald Pirner, Noa Winter
Sound Operator Germany: Ernesto Hernandez
Leslie Lohman Staff support: J. Soto and Morgaine Ann De Leonardis
Additional photo credit: Imogen Zino and Becki Moss