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The Star Thursday September 19 2019 22 THEATRE/ARTS • By Georgia O’Connor- Harding AN UNUSUAL dance show intertwining two dancers with larger than life-sized puppets will debut next month. Lyttelton’s Fleur de Thier and Little River’s Simon Van Der Sluijs have teamed up to explore the pure essence of life – living, loving and dying by intertwining dance with puppets. Mantra will premiere at the Lyttelton Arts Factory next month before it is showcased as part of the Little Andromeda pop-up festival in November. The unique concept behind the show is two large puppets which will be controlled by professional dancers Aleasha Seaward and Mariafelix Fuenzalida in the original production on the circle of life. “The dancers are the only ones that will control them, there are no strings. They represent a man and woman...we are trying to form a love affair,” de Their said. The concept of the show was formed by Van Der Sluijs, a multifaceted artist while de Their, a dance artist is driving the movement in the show. The make-up of the show will have repetitive sentences with the concept of a mantra coming through. “The dancers are the only ones that will control them. There are no strings. They represent a man and a woman . . . we are trying to form a love affair,” de Their said. But the show strictly is not for children. “I think it will be hauntingly beautiful, but I think for young Latest Canterbury news at starnews.co.nz Percussion quartet to team up with CSO BEING commissioned to compose a new work for a Grammy Awards-nominated quartet and the city’s most established orchestra has been described as a “huge honour” for James Gardner. The composer, broadcaster, musician, Canterbury University lecturer and James Adjunct Senior Fellow was offered Gardner a commission to write for the visiting Los Angeles Percussion Quartet and Christchurch Symphony Orchestra. Described by The New York Times as “mesmerising”, the Los Angeles Percussion Quartet will make their debut with the CSO premiering the concerto commissioned to mark the occasion by Gardner. The world premiere of his work, Gardner’s Gyre (Ghosts with Accents) is on September 21 at the Christchurch Town Hall. “I feel doubly lucky to have been offered this commission. “For one thing, being asked to write for the LAPQ is an honour, as well as a technical challenge. I was keen to draw on the players’ expertise and finesse on many instruments, as well as their enthusiasm and, here and there, their improvisational skills,” Gardner said. He said the second aspect is to write for the CSO, whose programmes over the last few years have been consistently innovative and have featured New Zealand composers. Gardner made the “slightly unusual decision” to focus on “unpitched” percussion in his writing for solo quartet. He said this was: “Partly because I didn’t want to rely on pitch or harmony for the quartet writing, as the orchestra is large enough to provide harmony, and partly because I wanted to showcase the subtleties and richness that can be drawn from such a children it will be scary,” de Their said. She described the puppets as having a real presence and could understand how people could become “weirded out” by them. De Their said when she first went out to Van Der Sluijs’ studio earlier this year to see the puppets she felt like she had walked into a room with two people. She said the best part of working on Mantra has been collaborating with an artist from a different genre. “Normally as a choreographer I am driving things myself so it is lovely to be feeding off someone else’s ideas”. Following completing her training with the Auckland Performing Arts (now UNITEC) in the early 1990s, de Their freelanced as a professional dancer before establishing herself in Christchurch as a choreographer. RENOWNED: Described by The New York Times as “mesmerising,” the Grammy Awardnominated Los Angeles Percussion Quartet will make their debut with the Christchurch Symphony Orchestra later this month. variety of objects in the hands of such fabulous performers”. Gyre (Ghosts with Accents) is Gardener’s latest composition in a long career that began in England in the 1980s with playing keyboards for groups including Pete Shelley’s band and Howard Devoto’s band Luxuria, followed by work with the group Apollo 440 remixing tracks by artists such as U2 and Scritti Politti. Moving to New Zealand in 1994, Gardner continued to create In spite of being based at Hagley Theatre Company for about 20 years, de Their has no desire to leave. “I am working with postsecondary students who have all chosen to do dance and drama as part of their career pathway so they want to be there and are really hungry to learn,” she said. De Their said she loves being able to employ dancers for her work after they have studied at Hagley before going on to tertiary study and becoming professional dancers. Both Seaward and Fuenzalida are Hagley graduates. •Mantra will be performed at LAF on October 25 and 26 and at Little Andromeda on November 13. To book tickets go to www.laf.co.nz and https:// littleandromeda.co.nz/# music, setting up contemporary music ensemble 175 East, which gained an international reputation by performing many acclaimed world premiere performances by local and overseas composers. While consistently composing music, Gardner also wrote and presented a series for Radio New Zealand Concert on Electronic Music, Frank Zappa, Morton Feldman, Iannis Xenakis, the Moog Synthesizer and the James Bond soundtracks of John Barry. Gardner’s Gyre (Ghosts with Accents) world premiere shares the CSO programme with Frank Zappa’s Night School and The Planets by Gustav Holst. •The Planets by the CSO will be held on September 21, 7.30pm at the Douglas Lilburn Auditorium, Christchurch Town Hall. Tickets from $33.83 ($18.45 students) are available at https://www.eventfinda. co.nz/2019/lamb-haywardmasterworks-the-planets/ christchurch Puppets explore life – living, loving and dying Fleur de Thier UNIQUE: A dance show centred around larger than life-sized puppets will debut at the Lyttelton Arts Factory next month. 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