Footnote Forte - Hullapolloi

Earlier this year performed in Wellington, Nelson, Dunedin and Antwerp, Hullapolloi now comes to Auckland as part of the Tempo Dance Festival.

Here is a group of odd creatures. They seem to have a purpose in mind.

Hullapolloi is a beautiful, disturbing stab into the political dynamics of a group.

The Hullapolloi test what is known, what is successful, what is normal. They negotiate behavioural boundaries – social swarming, competitive urges, comforting rituals.

The Footnote Forte programmes each year feature new work by significant Kiwi creators, and this collaboration spans the world as it brings Kate McIntosh (Brussels) and Jo Randerson (Wellington), both innovators in their own right, together to develop a new work on the dancers of Footnote Dance.

Both Jo and Kate are originally from Wellington - and as well as their own cross-media artistic practices, they have enjoyed several previous collaborations together on the international scene.

Hullapolloi is the first collaboration on New Zealand soil between these highly individual and dynamic artists - commissioned by Wellington's Footnote Dance Company.

Jo and Kate's previous collaborations have often been inspired by themes of radical physical and personal metamorphosis. Their performances are strongly visual - working with costumes, movement, scenography and soundscapes to create a world populated by unusual beings. The physical body is treated as an active site of transformation, where the performers can shape-shift into new and sometimes extreme identities.

However Kate and Jo's work is not escapist - it is deeply human at its heart, and most interested in what pressures, moves and shapes people’s lives in the real world.

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