Homemade Jam

Homemade Jam is a Triple Bill consisting of two of BCA’s signature works, alongside a new ‘jam’ to music by former BCA dancer Kit Reilly created in sessions with BCA artists and students from Tawa College, through BCA’s Creatives in Schools residency during Term 2 this year.

Auckland based Sarah Knox’s beautiful work Last Time We Spoke is a contemplation on absence, memory and the joy that can be found when we embrace community. The work was developed during Covid-19 and the process was also an emotional exploration of these themes at a time, when the sense of community was disrupted.

Loughlan Prior’s titular work Subtle Dances is described as “exploding with swirls of tango and is saucy, spicy, dark and compelling. Flirtation, nervousness, exhibitionism, ‘peacocking’ – the unspoken rituals performed in complex courtship are explored in this sassy and hypnotic work Inspired by traditional partner dance styles (ballroom and latin dance), the work slowly devolves into a physical language all of its own, where the lines of gender and sexuality are erased.

In between these two signature works from BCA is a new creation from Yr 12-13 students at Tawa College, to a specially commissioned soundscape from Kit Reilly. preference for reason is informed by themes of increasing polarity and conflict in the on/offline spaces we inhabit. The failure to listen and act with reason to any connection with the traditions of the ancient world when reasoned, sound, structured philosophical debate and critical thinking was integral to citizenship and humanity - and the concept of whakarongo; listen with the intention of understanding.

Last Time We Spoke

Choreographic Direction: Sarah Knox

Music: Rhian Sheehan

Recording: ‘A Quiet Divide’ 2018 – Produced recorded and engineered by Rhian Sheehan

Costume: Katie Day

Dancers: Callum Phipps, Lyndon Foley, Lotte Polderman-Charles, Kyoka Takahashi, James Burchell, Alina Kulikova

preference for reason

Music: Kit Reilly

Costume: Colarie Hale

Creative Director: Brigitte Knight supported by Elora Battah, Callum Phipps, Amelia Chandulal-Mackay

Dancers: Yr 12-13 dance students, Tawa College

Subtle Dances

Music: Claire Cowan

Sound Mixing: NZtrio mixed by Sarah Belkner, Richard Belkner, Niall Cameron, Claire Cowan

Costume: William Fitzgerald

Dancers: Alina Kulikova, Callum Phipps, Lotte Polderman-Charles, Kyoka Takahashi, Amelia Chandulal-Mackay, James Burchell, Lyndon Foley

Artistic Director & Producer: Turid Revfeim

BCA Artists 2024: Alina Kulikova, Callum Phipps, Lotte Polderman-Charles, Kyoka Takahashi, Amelia Chandulal-Mackay, James Burchell, Lyndon Foley. Internship: Madison Fotti-Knowles

Design & Lighting by Eventsuite

Stage Manager: Janina Panizza

Production Manager: Alan Wilson

Tawa College:

Kaiako: Sarah Holswich

Education Manager BCA: Brigitte Knight

BCA is a contemporary dance collective of individuals passionate about making dance and being part of a vibrant and diverse arts community here in Aotearoa/New Zealand. While trained in classical ballet, we aim to explore new ways of expressing ourselves through dance, breaking down the stereotypes linked to ballet, and making dance accessible to kiwi audiences through homegrown collaboration.

We also aim to offer movement experiences by trying to cater to different skill levels through the Ministry of Educations Creatives in Schools initiative. Here we offer curriculum based learning by also sharing the physicality and creativity from learning through dance. Creating pathways for emerging artists to follow a career in the arts. We are thrilled to be able to share the stage with this wonderful talent.

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