Strasbourg 1518

Company Borderline Arts Ensemble
Director and Choreographer Lucy Marinkovich
Writer and Composer Lucien Johnson
Set Designer Meg Rollandi
Lighting Designer Marcus McShane

CAST

Death - Michael Parmenter (MNZM)
The Maiden - Lucy Marinkovich
The Rational Man - Nick Blake
The Musician - Lucien Johnson
Choreomaniacs -
Hannah Tasker-Poland
Katie Rudd
Eliza Sanders
Sean MacDonald
Xin Ji
Emmanuel Reynaud

23 – 28 March
Circa Theatre (Circa One)
Tues – Thurs 6.30pm; Fri – Sat 8pm & Sun 4pm
$25 – $52

Please Note: Contains nudity and loud music

Runtime: 1hr 14mins

Strasbourg 1518. A city on the brink. The triple threat of escalating inequality, rampant misogyny and a devastating drought threatens to break the town in two. When a lone woman steps out of her house and begins to dance, everyone is bewildered. But within days, hundreds more have followed her lead. As the authorities invent ever more bizarre ways to resolve this new crisis, the city falls one by one into delirious hypnosis of a real-life dance with death.

“Strasbourg 1518 is as chilling and wild, and as beautiful, as you won't dance in the theatre to be.” - Dance Aotearoa New Zealand / Michelle Potter ‘On Dancing’, Jennifer Shennan

“Strasbourg 1518 seizes your imagination and emotions with an uncompromising grasp.” - Regional News, Leah Maclean

Strasbourg 1518 was produced by Borderline Arts Ensemble with the support of the New Zealand Festival, Creative New Zealand, Wellington City Council, Wallace Arts Trust, Wellesley Studios, Wellington Community Trust, the Australian High Commission, and the Theatre Artists Charitable Trust. Strasbourg 1518 was commissioned by the New Zealand Festival and premiered in March 2020, returning to Circa Theatre and the Auckland Arts Festival in 2021.

Thanks to Creative New Zealand

Photo: Alex Efimoff