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Tempo Festival of Dance 09
FOOTNOTE FORTE SOLO SERIES 09 at Circa Two | Museum Hotel | Hooch Bar
reviewed by Jennifer Shennan (The Dominion Post) 13 Oct 2009
Solos in 3-venue circuit
The annual Forte season by Footnote has taken a new turn, with six choreographers each making a solo, inspired by an iconic New Zealander, for one of the company’s six dancers. Circa, Museum Hotel, and Hooch in Courtenay Place was the circuit, and allowed audiences a clear take on each dancer, not something which group works always offer. [more]

Tempo Festival of Dance 09
FOOTNOTE FORTE SOLO SERIES 09 at from City Art Rooms to Cassette9 on Vulcan Lane
reviewed by David Zeitner-Smith 13 Oct 2009
Inspiring evening of contemporary dance
At first I didn’t know what to expect on this sunny early evening in Auckland. Footnote Dance was going to present its 2009 Solo Series at this year’s Tempo Festival of Dance at the City Art Rooms and Cassette 9. Both venues are located in the heart of central Auckland and promised to be exciting sites to watch the company’s latest productions. [more]

NZ Fringe Festival 07
FOOTNOTE PERFORUM at Deirdre Tarrant Dance Studio
reviewed by Lyne Pringle 28 Feb 2007
Rewarding and informative
There is definite interest in Perforum, held at the Deirdre Tarrant Dance studio which is also home to Footnote Dance Company. The place was packed – people almost hanging from the rafters – for this event, which promises to demystify the process of making contemporary dance by showing repertoire being developed for the Footnote dancers, to be seen on tour around the country in their Made in New Zealand programme. [more]

NZ Fringe Festival 2010
FOOTNOTE PERFORUM 2010 at Tarrant Dance Studios, 125 Cuba St Wellington
reviewed by Jenny Stevenson 19 Feb 2010
Will “the best work Footnote had ever done” become even better?
As a taster for the main event, this annotated showing of works by Wellington’s Footnote Dance Company serves up a tantalising appetizer. Short excerpts from two dances, with commentary by both the choreographers and the dancers is a rare treat, giving a clear insight into the choreographic processes and the manner in which the dancers develop the characterisations and movement vocabulary of their work. [more]

NZ Fringe Festival 2010
FOR REAL at Basement Theatre, Te Whaea National Dance & Drama Centre
reviewed by Lynn Freeman (Capital Times) 24 Feb 2010
Unforgettable performances
For Real comes from Christchurch’s Original Scripts Youth Company. It’s brilliant and insightful and daring. The actors each perform a part of a teen’s subconscious. [more]

NZ Fringe Festival 2010
FOR REAL at Basement Theatre, Te Whaea National Dance & Drama Centre
reviewed by Ewen Coleman (The Dominion Post) 22 Feb 2010
Fresh take on teen travails
Teenage angst and the pressures and conflicts if growing up through the teen years has had many airings in many guises, both on stage and in films and TV. [more]

NZ Fringe Festival 2010
FOR REAL at Basement Theatre, Te Whaea National Dance & Drama Centre
reviewed by Lyne Pringle 22 Feb 2010
Refreshing to be this engaged
From the moment we are greeted at the Te Whaea door by assured young women there is a sense that this production is well thought through and every detail attended to. [more]

NZ Fringe Festival 2013
FOR YOUR FUTURE GUIDANCE at Thistle Hall
reviewed by James McKinnon 21 Feb 2013
Elicits an exceptional range of emotional responses
Binge Culture’s artists have a formidable repertory of tactics for making their audience feel at ease while simultaneously taking them out of the comfort zone of conventional theatre and into more exciting places. It’s worth asking: how do they do it? [more]

Dunedin Fringe 2013
FOR YOUR FUTURE GUIDANCE at Community Gallery, 20 Princes St
reviewed by Kimberley Buchan 21 Mar 2013
Deadpan humour and understated irony
In keeping with the style, this is not a performance to be passively viewed. In many cases the audience do more work than the performers. A timeline of events is collaboratively pieced together. The awkward role play is given a lift with some wry performances from the audience members. [more]

Auckland Fringe 2013
FOR YOUR FUTURE GUIDANCE at Co.Space, 155 K' Road
reviewed by Glen Pickering 27 Feb 2013
A relaxed and playful interactive experience
There is also something very surprising and big that none of us had predicted. It brings a completely new, wonderful twist to the show and helps draw the seminar to a close. [more]
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