Friday, June 15, 2012
Show Pony: New Performance Festival Aotea Centre 2012
New Performance Festival in association with the Edge presents...
Show Pony
Collaboration between Alexa Wilson and Nisha Madhan
24/25th February, 6.30pm
$25/$20 conc
Lower NZI 3, Aotea Centre
Tuesday, September 13, 2011
Sunday, September 11, 2011
Show Pony talks to Show Pony
We are developing a new work which is a collaboration and will premiere at the New Theatre festival to then perform at the Auckland Comedy festival 2012.
Show Pony conceptually is a satirical look at the world of Talk show television, celebrity ‘cult’ culture, and public therapy through the lens of avant-guarde performance and how these worlds collide. It is a self-referential play on our own public roles within performance in NZ- Nisha Madhan as former Shortland Street favourite ‘Shanti’ and Alexa Wilson as a multi award-winning experimental choreographer.
The audience will be treated to a live talk show where the roles of talk show host and guest, client and therapist are continuously swapping. The aim is to reveal or subvert the artiface of performance, celebrity, real life, public persona, public therapy and high art. It also references a culture of mediated narcissicism in which fame, social popularity and winning are revered above all else.
The result will be a show that is entertaining, accessible and aims to please whilst possessing a strong spirit of new vouge experimentation in performance which disrupt expectations. Exposing manipulation inherent in ‘getting to the top’ and using personal drama to hit the highest ratings we aim to question the ‘realness’ of reality tv. Consciously playing the line of real life experience and contrived public persona we aim to take a light hearted approach using self-effacing egotism to open up a world of institutionalised media deception.
Show Pony conceptually is a satirical look at the world of Talk show television, celebrity ‘cult’ culture, and public therapy through the lens of avant-guarde performance and how these worlds collide. It is a self-referential play on our own public roles within performance in NZ- Nisha Madhan as former Shortland Street favourite ‘Shanti’ and Alexa Wilson as a multi award-winning experimental choreographer.
The audience will be treated to a live talk show where the roles of talk show host and guest, client and therapist are continuously swapping. The aim is to reveal or subvert the artiface of performance, celebrity, real life, public persona, public therapy and high art. It also references a culture of mediated narcissicism in which fame, social popularity and winning are revered above all else.
The result will be a show that is entertaining, accessible and aims to please whilst possessing a strong spirit of new vouge experimentation in performance which disrupt expectations. Exposing manipulation inherent in ‘getting to the top’ and using personal drama to hit the highest ratings we aim to question the ‘realness’ of reality tv. Consciously playing the line of real life experience and contrived public persona we aim to take a light hearted approach using self-effacing egotism to open up a world of institutionalised media deception.
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