Big Low Dream - Auckland
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BIG LOW DREAM is a new contemporary dance work about what we reach for, together, in the dark. Choreographer Jessie McCall looks to dream logic - unruly, queer, ethically imaginative, as a way to hold onto meaning in a time of overlapping crises. Paradises slip their frames. Unexpected pleasures co-inhabit with the unthinkable. Spectacle flirts with collapse.
Ominous and funny, intimate and sweeping, BIG LOW DREAM is a rehearsal of possible futures — tender, desperate, and rising.
Creative Team
Choreography: Jessie McCall
Production Design: Meg Rollandi
Sound Design: Thomas Lambert
Lighting Design: Tony Black
Cast
Airu Matsuda, Caleb Heke, Sasha Matsumoto, Millie Maden
Auckland season presented as part of Tempo Dance Festival 2026. For the full programme visit: www.tempodancefestival.co.nz
Praise for Jesie McCall:
"Through the combined impact of dance and design, McCall enables multiple truths to coexist, just as they do in our reality… This is a production in the hands of an artist who knows precisely what they’re doing. It’s focused and formidable; well-made and compelling." - Tate Fountain, Bad Apple, 13 October 2022 for I GET SO EMOTIONAL BABY
“Deeply perceptive and provocative work… It does exactly what art is supposed to do – it opens a window into our soul, and shines a light on moments we may often try to keep hidden.” - Emily Napolitano, Theatreview for TASSEL ME THIS
Ominous and funny, intimate and sweeping, BIG LOW DREAM is a rehearsal of possible futures — tender, desperate, and rising.
Creative Team
Choreography: Jessie McCall
Production Design: Meg Rollandi
Sound Design: Thomas Lambert
Lighting Design: Tony Black
Cast
Airu Matsuda, Caleb Heke, Sasha Matsumoto, Millie Maden
Auckland season presented as part of Tempo Dance Festival 2026. For the full programme visit: www.tempodancefestival.co.nz
Praise for Jesie McCall:
"Through the combined impact of dance and design, McCall enables multiple truths to coexist, just as they do in our reality… This is a production in the hands of an artist who knows precisely what they’re doing. It’s focused and formidable; well-made and compelling." - Tate Fountain, Bad Apple, 13 October 2022 for I GET SO EMOTIONAL BABY
“Deeply perceptive and provocative work… It does exactly what art is supposed to do – it opens a window into our soul, and shines a light on moments we may often try to keep hidden.” - Emily Napolitano, Theatreview for TASSEL ME THIS
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Where is it happening?
Q, 380 Queen St, Auckland Central, Auckland 1010, New Zealand, Auckland
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