Innovative Contemporary Dance piece from emerging choreographer needs your support.

Innovative Contemporary Dance Piece From Emerging Choreographer Needs Your Support.

Project 2023-07-27 19:23:58 +1200

The team involved in creating Zenith created this Pledge Me to help us fundraise money to pay for production costs like studio hire for rehearsals, photographer and costumes etc so all the money made from the show can go towards the cast and team to give them the payments they deserve for all the hard work they have put in to bring the show to life.

With Zenith we hope to create and perform a thought provoking piece with innovative choreography that has a strong intention. We aim to leave audience members in awe as well as awakening a new understanding of life's journey. We hope to inspire reflection and initiate broader outlooks in regards to one's future. 

Zenith is a unique contemporary dance piece that explores the process and perceptions of reaching one's "personal Zenith". You often hear the statement "they have reached the zenith of their career" or the "zenith of their life" but have you ever really thought about what zenith actually means to them. Has their views been unconsciously manipulated by other factors?

Everyone is always reaching for their zenith, constantly focusing on how to get there and when they will get there but what happens once they are there? Are they, are you, reaching for something that doesn't even exist?

Zenith is broken down into 6 sections including,

Pursue - Follow the dancers working towards reaching their zenith, experience their motivation, their fight and their process to reach what they believe to be their zenith, their purpose.

Beyond - Once reaching their Zenith they look down at what their life looks like now they have reached this Zenith. They watch other things around them suffer, the parts of their life left behind. Is this really what Zenith looks like? This doubt now creates comparison, you start noticing others who have something you to believe is more, your Zenith is now fractured.

Manipulation - No one person's Zenith is the same, though is what you see and hear in society unconsciously manipulating your own Zenith. Are others influencing your thought processes?

Perception - One’s perception is very narrow. Watch the dancers explore/discover this narrow path realising there is much more out there than just your thoughts. What lies outside this narrow path?

Renewal - Understanding that there is no end to Zenith creates a new purpose. Watch the awakening of a new direction of one's mind progress on stage. Learning that maybe the journey is the best part. Are the vast perceptions society impose regarding Zenith unconsciously manipulating your life creating doubt in one's purpose.

So far we are in week three for rehearsals. In week one we had two rehearsals where we completed the first section "Purse" and then in week two we had another two rehearsals to complete another section "Manipulation". This third week will be to recap and fix up these first two sections before adding on.

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