Weekly Sacre Update # 2

                                                                                            

Welcome to your weekly update for

Sacre: The Auckland Dance Project

Proudly part of the REAL New Zealand Festival

With less than two months to go before Sacre: The Auckland Dance Project debuts at the Aotea Centre, activity is gaining momentum. For more information about the project, visit the APO website.

What’s Been Happening

• Contemporary dance workshops have come to an end, leaving students waiting in anticipation for when the schools come together for full Sacre rehearsals in September. The success of the dance workshops has not gone unnoticed by the press and the student themselves, as the dancers become more comfortable with moving and taking direction.

Sacre was featured in the Manukau Courier on 19 August when Adrian Evans reflected on the inspiration Moss Patterson passed on to participants of contemporary workshops held at Tangaroa College: "Dance moves energise arts students" (registration requ’d).

• We asked year 7 and 8 students from Pakuranga Intermediate what new dance styles and techniques they had gained during their workshops with Moss. One dancer replied: “Telling stories through our bodies” – an impressive skill for anyone, let alone a 12-year-old.

The students said that they’d learnt more than just dance techniques and, when asked, came up with a long list of skills they had developed. When asked how they worked collaboratively with their peers, for example, the children gave a great range of answers: “By being positive about everyone’s ideas and respecting them”; “Listening, combining each others’ ideas to make it work. Some ideas were left out because we had a vote on what to use”; “By taking a bit of everyone’s thoughts and then using them to create something we all agreed on”; “We all thought positively and respected each other by listening and engaging in the topic.”

APO Music Director Eckehard Stier chats with Kiss My Arts

• Eckehard Stier recently discussed Sacre and his role in the project on the Kiss My Arts blog. “Musically, The Rite of Spring is one of the great orchestral masterpieces, and as a musician it means a lot to play the very finest works,” he says at one point. Read on here: Kiss My Arts

Become part of the worldwide phenomenon

• We are looking for volunteers to help supervise and assist with logistics during Sacre’s production week. If you or anyone you know would like more information, have a look at Volunteer Net or The Big Idea. Alternatively, contact volunteer supervisor Natasha Pearce directly: tash.pearce@gmail.com. We’d love to hear from you.

Sacre Blog

• With the increase of activity surrounding Sacre, regular visits to our blog are essential; we have a feeling the week ahead will be filled with visual delights. To add news or images, send content to HelenS@apo.co.nz with ‘Sacre blog’ in the subject line.

Photo: Rimoni

Upcoming Events

• Music workshop at Hay Park School 24 August

• Music workshop at Kristin School 7 September

• Details surrounding the masks required for Sacre are set to be released next week…

Purchase tickets from THE EDGE

Prices: Adults/Senior: $45 $35, $25
Child/Student/Community Service Card holders: $30, $20, $10

For more information please contact Richard Betts, Publicist, Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra, p: (09) 638 6266 x210; m: 021 520 546, e: richardb@apo.co.nz