Sleep/Wake

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Event Sleep/Wake
Venue Auckland Town Hall, Auckland, New Zealand
Umbrella Event Auckland Festival 2009
First Date 7 March 2009
Opening Date 7 March 2009
Last Date 10 March 2009
Dates Estimated No
Status Professional
World Premiere No
Description Dance and design collide with science in this collaboration between performance designer Sam Trubridge and Massey University’s Sleep/Wake Research Centre. Sleep/Wake is part performance-art installation and part dance work. Specially installed in Auckland’s Town Hall for the 2009 festival, the production features mesmerising new choreography, original music, evocative lighting, live video, and a dynamic set design of moving architecture, spinning beds and liquid surfaces. The show begins with a performer asleep on stage. Then the few minutes that it takes our bodies to go from sleeping to waking are expanded to explore various physical, political and metaphoric awakenings. Through the languages of movement, image and science a unique journey begins: into the unknown territory of sleep, where we spend one third of our lives. Sleep/Wake won two awards in the 2008 NZ Fringe Festival: Best Production Design and Most Outstanding Performer (for Maria Dabrowska). It was also Highly Commended in the Most Original Concept category.
Description Source Programme
Primary Genre Theatre - Spoken Word
Secondary Genre Dance Theatre
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Contributors
Name Function Notes
Philippa Gander Consultant
Sam Trubridge Designer
Philippa Gander Director
Sam Trubridge Director
Text Nationality New Zealand
Production Nationality New Zealand
Further Information Auckland Premiere.
Event Status Completed
Data Source
Source Description
Programme 2009 Auckland Festival programme
Web https://www.theatreview.org.nz/reviews/review.php?id=1121
Data Set AusStage
Event Identifier 155559