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a celebration of the arts • wanaka • queenstown • bannockburn • luggate • hawea 21-27 April 2015 music theatre art dance aspiring conversations festivalofcolour.co.nz 1 CIRCUSDANCE thanks to GOLD SPOnSORS our sponsors knee deep “Many circus shows build towards MaJOR GRanTS wow-factor moments, but in this piece you quickly cease to expect triumphant drum rolls because this is a show in which every single minute counts... an awe-inspiring show. *****”. SILVER SPOnSORS Lyn Gardner, The Guardian It’s circus from the heart, astonishing skills and exquisite beauty! After touring throughout Europe to sell-out audiences and standing ovations, four BROnZE SPOnSORS performers at the top of their game bring the “The actual humanity into circus through a breathtaking physicality on display is so jaw-droppingly display of skills. Casus is Australia’s hottest sophisticated”. new circus company and their debut work, The Herald Sun Knee Deep, is an inventive blend of traditional FESTIVaL PaRTnERS MEDIa PaRTnERS aCCOMMODaTIOn PaRTnERS and contemporary circus techniques. Hammer & nail Heartland Design & Print Edgewater • Maple Lodge Through this work, the four performers Mark & Sonia Richter More FM • On Media Lakeside apartments • Wanaka Hotel explore the limitations of strength and fragility, Quartz Reef Otago Daily Times • Radio Wanaka journeying through moments of raw discovery, TomTom Productions fleeting relationships and unexpected bonds. LOCaL BUSInESS SPOnSORS SUPPORTInG FUnDERS They give new meaning to objects that amigos Mexican Grill, aspiring Lifestyle Retirement Village, aspiring Boosted • Callis Trust are seemingly inanimate. Knee Deep is a breathtaking display of humanity and Wealth Management, Batchelar McDougall Consulting, Escape Clothing, First Sovereign Trust Federal Diner, Florence’s Foodstore and Café, Graphite Management, incredible physical skill performed with raw Lottery Grants Board emotion and honesty. Hillend Station, Infinity Investment Group, Peak accommodation, nellie Milnes Charitable Trust Penberthy Insurance, PlaceMakers, Ray White, Turnkey Homes SkYCITY Queenstown Casino Community Trust Wanaka BEnEFaCTORS Tuesday 21 April 2015 BEnEFaCTOR PLUS BEnEFaCTORS Jack Lethbridge Trust Michael & Kate Sidey Caroline & Henry van Asch 6.00pm and 8.00pm Central Lakes Trust Crystal Palace John Charrington & Pamela McBride Carol Angland & Ross Carrick Longview Environmental Trust Richard & Di Somerville Mark & Sally Verbiest Penny Deans & Andrew Gawith Bill & Karen Day Eunice & Graeme Marsh Miranda Spary & John Guthrie David & Annette Wale DURATION 60 minutes Sir Eion & Jan, Lady Edgar John & Laurel Gilks Peter & Fay Robertson Dame Adrienne Stewart Sir Tim & Prue Wallis ADMISSION $38 Ted Lloyd Kate & Ant Howard Trevor Scott & Diana McLachlan Graeme & Barbara Thompson Ian & Judith Shawe Michael Laney & Monica Ryan Max & Laraine Shepherd Lesley & Alex Twaddle SPONSOR 2 3 THEATREDANCE WElcome to thanks to Sponsored by: the festival our patrons It’s our birthday - we are ten years old! PaTROn PLUS Bruce Cathie Mead Stark Ltd Pip & Karen Chapman Rosa & William Miller We are bringing back old friends like Michael Houstoun Sally & John Angus Wyn & Dorothy Chirnside Philip & Jennifer Munns and Dave Armstrong as well as some remarkable new John Beattie & Anne Salmond Brian Cooke & Devon Hotop Brian & Joanna Nimmo ones like Douglas Wright and Stephanie Brown (aka Michael & Kristin Bowman Greta Connell & Martin Connell Steve & Katrina Norman LIPS). Come and enjoy circus, music, dance, theatre, Robert & Lynette Duncan David & Philippa Crawford David & Nicola Peart Suzanne Ellison art, photography and Aspiring Conversations – catch Sara & Trevor Crawford John Perriam & Viv Milsom Anna Findlay Stephanie Pursley & Denis the wave of performances for a six day ride! Mayford Dawson & Dame Prue Flacks Alison Roxburgh Costello Our thanks to all our friends and supporters, our Roger & Mary Gardiner Mandy Deans & Paul Maynard Ron & Sue Pynenburg sponsors, funders, benefactors, patrons and volunteers Tim & Cilla Glasson Martin Dippie Diana & Graeme Rea – you make it happen. De & Peter Gordon Andrew Donaldson Jackie & Simon Redai John Hare & Hetty Van Hale Marilyn & Peter Duncan Jerry & Shirl Rowley Enjoy the best little arts festival in New Zealand! Ket & Sandy Hazledine Norma Dutton & Peter Gregg Tom & Adrienne Rowley Peter & Kirsty Hazledine Lynne & Ralph Fegan Grant & Karen Ruddenklau Tim Herrick Lloyd & Julie Ferguson Mike & Jane Saunders Lyn Hill Roger & Carolyn Field ML Schroder & Roger Brash John Hogg & Jennifer Connolly Wayne & Sandra Findlay Gill & Ted Simpson Dick & Diana Hubbard Norman & Barbara Fitzgerald Acton & Dinah Smith Jillian & Dick Jardine Grant Fyfe & Caroline Harker Simon & Mary Stamers-Smith Dafydd & Christine Lewis Pip & Alistair Gillespie Ann-Louise Stokes & Karen & Andrew McLeod Scott & Mary Gilmour Shaun Gilbertson Bob & Pam McRae Alan & Kay Gray Kate Summers & Jonette Hodge Robynanne Milford & the Sandra Guy & Brendan Jarvie Swan Family CENTRAL “Armstrong’s ability to late John Boyd Nev & Bonny Teat Chris Hadfield & Paul Tregea write a drama that is both Jean & Michael Nelson Alison Hazledine & Ian Howie Jimmy & Eve Wallace Leigh & Nickie Overton George & Jo Wallis World Premiere of Dave armstrong’s new play contemporary and universal Hetty Van Hale (Chair), anna McConville (Marketing & Artist Liaison), Gavan & Gerarda Herlihy Philip & Josie Sanford Ken & Lyn Warburton Philip Tremewan (Director), Lindsey Schofield (General Manager) Kirsty Hewitt Aucklander Michael Caughey has it all: a successful US screenwriting career, a beautiful actress girlfriend in its themes puts him at the Neill & Barbara Simpson Sue Webb Anna Hiatt top of the league table of Trevor Williams & Rosemary Cherie, and a Central Otago vineyard. Now it’s finally time to do what he wants – make an art movie Don & Jan Spary Allen & Joyce Hogan Welcome to this year’s Festival of Ahern starring Cherie. But can Michael stay true to his dream or give in to temptations offered by a cut-throat Kiwi playwrights.” Adam & Annabel Spiers Mary Holmes Colour, and a programme which Dawn & Terry Wilson Elspeth Sandys, New Zealand Listener Gary & Fran Tate Wayne & Jane Hudson Hollywood producer? promises to delight the senses and John & Penny Wilson Jane & Mark Taylor Balfour & Elizabeth Irvine nourish the soul. Robert & Prue Wilson Meg Taylor Errol & Jan Kelly Wilson Family As Michael and Cherie struggle with the issue of money versus art, Brian, a local builder, completes the QUEEnSTOWn Peter & Susan Thodey Peter King & Lauren Sleeman Vanessa van Uden, Mayor of Owen & Averil Wright deck, and Karen, a young Invercargill housekeeper, keeps the household running. Tuesday 21 April 2015 Peter & Jane Wardell Derek Kirke the Queenstown Lakes District Donald & Sally Young 7.00pm, Queenstown Memorial Hall Nigel Zega & Kay Thomson Annabel Langbein & Ted Hewetson Freddie & Rosemary Linterman Will Michael succumb to temptation? Will Cherie finally get a decent role? What are Brian’s mates Wanaka SUPPORT US: PaTROnS Geoff & Jean Logan aDDITIOnaL building in Arrowtown? Surely Karen, a bright Southern Girl who can back a trailer Thursday 23 April 2015 in enriching the hearts, minds and Anonymous x 2 Kate & Doug Lovell DOnORS and skin a possum, wants to do more in life than make beds? 7.00pm, Lake Wanaka Centre Iona Bentley Bryan Lloyd & Marie Lewis Anonymous x 3 souls of our community and join the Friday 24 April 2015 John & Jill Blennerhassett Alistair Madill John & Ngaire Alldred festival team as a patron or benefactor. Directed by Conrad Newport, Central is a hugely entertaining comedy/drama 7.00pm, Lake Wanaka Centre Celia Bowmar & Peter Bowmar Janet Malloch & Brian Anderson John & Marilyn Barlow For further information: Nick Brown & Mary Smit Peter Marshall Stewart Elms that has Central Otago at its heart. Written while Dave was on a ‘Wild Creations’ DURATION 80 minutes, no interval festivalofcolour.co.nz/support/private-giving/ Rob & Jill Cameron Sandy McKay Belinda Innes & Tony Horder residency at Bannockburn, Central combines a human story of love, greed and ADMISSION $38 Fiona Campbell & Brian Howard Fiona & Matt McPhee Todd Innes & Barney Sundstrom ambition with contemporary issues of conservation and landscape. SPONSOR 4 5 DANCE DANCE the wine project World Premiere “There in the glass was the soil of a place and in that soil a soul” We create something magic and dangerous when we tend the vines, crush the grapes, and ferment the juice. The Wine Project invites you into a world of flavours and aromas, of ritual and revelry: Bright berry fruit gently framed by autumnal, forest-floor notes with hints of chocolate, coffee and spice. “I like exploring realms of mystery and beauty, opening them up so Recently returned from a sell-out season in Edinburgh, people can be re-enchanted.” Java Dance Company captures audiences with dance Douglas Wright, NZ Listener theatre that clambers into your senses. Their work is built on intense physicality and audience immersion. There is “Explosive, lyrical and no polite distance with Java’s brand of dance theatre. You distinctively Wright’s own.” breathe it in your pores and feel it under your fingernails. NZ Listener (rapt) Sacha Copland began fermenting this new work in a Photo: Pippa Samaya French vineyard and now uncorks the bottle of dancing wine in Central Otago. Previous accolades for Java Dance the kiss inside “Clambers into our senses from the word go.” Choreographer: Douglas Wright Theatreview, Wellington 2011 The Kiss