plea$e give u$ money

THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH !

Nooo budget spaghetti for usssss.

In 2010 during Choreofest I made a short dance/theatre work called Faux Pas. I thought it was pretty alright (video proof here). It involved six pleasingly angular white wooden chairs, giant plastic bibs, a film and some retching noises. It also made our lighting op Kurt almost vom every night (sorry Kurt).

Here is a nice photo of Lucy with not many clothes on. This is to encourage you to keep reading. I've heard "sex sells". Don't worry, I got her permission to use the photo so it's not, like, creepy or anything. She is also holding a martini glass of greasy chips which is about as sexy as it gets. 

If you're into boys, here is a photo of a shirtless man:

Or maybe you're into...

Anyway...

This year in March, Faux Pas is going to be re-vamped for the 2012 Dunedin Fringe Festival. "Black Sheep Productions" (as I've decided to operate under following some malicious nick-naming by fellow dancers) will attempt to blend in with normal society and scare the crap out of regular cafe patrons. Yeah, so I've heard flash mobs are in.

The lovely Shani Dickins, Taofia Pelesasa, Sofia McIntyre and I will dance, chatter and hiccup our way around a table setting. We'll probably cause chaos by doing things like holding our cutlery in the wrong hand and sticking chewing gum to each others' faces.

We know it's waaaaaayyyyy to much effort for people to go to a theatre, hence why it's being performed in Green Acorn Cafe, Ironic Cafe & Bar and Ra Bar. So you can have your soy latte and watch us too. We also figure that we can't really expect to be paid for this kind of not-even-working-class/is-it,-like,-"alternative"-or-"experimental" type of nonsense, so it's FREE.

Somehow we convinced Dunedin Fringe Festival (via Creative New Zealand) to financially come to the dinner party.

(Subtle logo placement.)

But Dunedin is a long way away. Cue map for massive global audience reading this blog.

So here's the part where I beg and grovel like a good little artist.

I've set up a crowd funding page for Faux Pas on Pozible. Pozible is a website where people pledge donations of their choice to a particular project. Crowd funding works on an 'all or nothing' basis: if the specified amount is reached, the project receives those funds. If not, all donations are returned to the supporters.

We would be 'real' grateful for any amount. Even, like, five dollars - the equivalent of one of those soy lattes. Hell, if you really feel like living on the edge you could even forward the link to your contacts! If you don't then we'll be living off budget spaghetti for a week.

And die from it.

If you're in Dunedin you can catch us Thursday 22, Friday 23 and Saturday 24 March: 11am at Green Acorn Cafe, 1pm at Ironic Cafe and Bar and 9pm at Ra Bar daily. Our Facebook page is here and our Eventfinder pages are here, here and here because they make you list separate venues as separate events. Awesome.


Here is some information written in the third person to prove my validity as a choreographer:

Natalie grew up in Cambridge and, after watching a performance of Riverdance, made her mum enroll her in tap classes. In 2011 Natalie completed her degree in Contemporary Dance at UNITEC, where she danced for top New Zealand choreographers including Sarah Foster, Michael Parmenter, Shona McCullagh and Katie Burton. This year Natalie assisted Okareka Dance Company with their inaugural Summer School, and last year rehearsal directed Etched Dance Productions' Scribble Scape (Wellington and Auckland Fringe Festivals). In 2010 Natalie danced for Charles Koroneho and Lilibeth Cuenca Rasmussen (Denmark) in Living Room Public Art Festival. She has choreographed for Theatre 466 and The Live Series (in which she also performed); she has also performed for Tempo Dance Festival, Auckland's Short + Sweet Dance Festival, Freak of the Week band showcasing and Alexa Wilson's Millionaire PM (which she also assist-produced). In March Natalie will perform in the Performance Arcade on Wellington Waterfront and part of the 2012 NZ Fringe Festival.

Also thanks to Chris Stratton who designed this cool poster for me:

What a champ.

Get to it!