WARM BLACK: SPLIT SECONDS

"The little things? The little moments? They aren't little." - Jon Kabat-Zinn

Craig Bary and Sarah Foster-Sproull. The New Zealand Dance Company project.

My first project on the performing arts started around the mid 1990s and resulted in the book Truth by Illusion. Although neither a dancer nor an actor, I found myself immediately at home working among people who, like myself, were committed to work they loved. People who do what they do simply because they have to.

Truth by Illusion published in 1999.

And so here I am more than ten years later working with the newly formed New Zealand Dance Company, once again with people motivated primarily by their individual and collective need to do it and once again at home among the dedication to, and love for, the work.

After five weeks of rehearsals and a short, stunning season The New Zealand Dance Company applied for and received a major grant from Creative New Zealand. This means there is now a basis for a full time contemporary dance company in New Zealand. A road for choreographers and dancers that does not lead out of New Zealand by necessity.

(The New Zealand Dance Company has only had its grant application approved in the past few weeks and so does not as yet have a website I will include a link on this post as soon as it does).