rapt

World Premiere.

rapt is a major new work from Douglas Wright - one of this country’s most significant and visionary artists. A special Festival commission, Wright’s 11th full-length work, will be performed on The Civic stage by a company that features some of New Zealand’s finest international dancers.

“Douglas Wright is a poet of dance”
- Sydney Morning Herald

rapt is a major new work from Douglas Wright. Creative iconoclast, choreographer and writer – an influential figure in New Zealand’s dance theatre genre – Douglas is one of this country’s most significant and visionary artists. Wright’s 11th full-length work, rapt, will be performed on The Civic stage by a company that features some of New Zealand’s finest international dancers, many returning home for this work. With music by the 17th century baroque composer Heinrich Biber and New Zealand composer David Long (Mutton Birds, Six Volts, Plan9), rapt is steeped in the unnerving clarity and signature wit characteristic of this revolutionary artist.

“rapt is a bringing to light of the buried part of ourselves that needs dance in the same way a body needs a heart. Human beings have always expressed their joy, anger, triumph and fear through movement; movement then ritualised, now lost. rapt celebrates the dark radiant energies of the body. It explores the threshold between sleep and waking, life and death, revealing a deluge of visceral images and haunting unforgettable dances of serenity and power.”
- Douglas Wright