Footnote Dance company in New Zealand has announced its newest show in Footnote Forte 2013, a program aimed at bringing New Zealand dance talent home from abroad to show off their talent locally. The program has this year brought home Lisa Densem, a former Footnote dancer, who has spent much of her career working overseas, with shows in France and Germany.
Commissioned by Footenote Dance, Densem’s new work Cloud In Hand will feature music by Andrew Thomas and have its World Premiere in Auckland for New Zealand Fringe at The Opera House.
Wellington.Scoop has said, ‘Her new work for Footnote is a choreography of discovery. Densem is using techniques that explore the body in context with the surrounding space and searching for moments that emerge from this exploration.’
Director and founder of the dance company Diedre Tarrant shared that Densem’s involvement in the latest show Cloud in Hand was ‘some years in the planning.’
‘This particular homecoming has been some years in the planning, and
it is wonderful to bring Lisa home. She is a very special New Zealander
and has made her name so far away,’ Tarrant stated.
Of the company, New Zealand Herald. said, ‘Footnote has at its heart Diedre’s determination to create a secure, sustainable professional company of excellent dancers who can respond to the innovation and ideas of contemporary choreographers wanting to communicate through the most universal art form – dance.’
The act will also welcome back names such as Alice McCann who has worked in New Caledonia and Emily Adams who has recently been working in London.