We'll Be With You Shortly

Part of the Pōneke Festival of Contemporary Dance 2024.

The year is 3024. Technology has progressed to the point that humans can now tell when someone is going to die.

To spare the pain and uncertainty of a natural death, we now receive a message signalling us to go to the waiting room. We must go immediately. Here we sit and wait in the comfort of a well furnished and pleasantly scented room to be taken through to the next life. Long gone are the days of nature taking its course; how heartbreaking it was and how unfair that it took us so differently. Now we all go the same way, it is much better.

‘We’ll be with you shortly’ is a series of physical speeches from five individuals as they meet finality.