In media releases and reviews, boundary pushing is a common description of contemporary dance works. The curator of the first Experimental Dance Week Aotearoa is promising to not only push, but smash down boundaries.
On her webpage Alexa Wilson, lists some of the adjectives used to describe her own dance work over the past two decades: challenging", "anarchist", "punk","provocative", "feminist", and "hilarious"
Alexa, who's also a writer, filmmaker and teacher, has returned from her base for the last eight years, Berlin, to oversee the six day festival in Auckland which also sees the publication launch of a survey Te Ao Live: Experimental Dance Aotearoa NZ in the Early 21st Century and, as she tells Lynn Freeman, she also intends to publish a book on her work Theatre of Ocean.
The inaugural Experimental Dance Week Aotearoa runs Auckland 4 - 9 February 2019.
