Concept, direction and design Raewyn Hill
Lighting Martyn Roberts
Dramaturg Duncan Sarkies
Music Lachrimae Caravaggio, Jordi Savall

A new dance work by Raewyn Hill & Dancers

Raewyn Hill returns from Hong Kong with a new dance work inspired by extraordinary Yuen Po bird market where centuries of tradition remain alongside rapid modernisation.

The Yuen Po bird market is a meeting place set amongst sky scrapers, where dozens of men take their caged songbirds to socialise them, for the birds to learn each other’s song and to sing for their supper. The men sit watching and listening with adoration. Finders Keepers looks at the intricacies of family relationships after a man brings a bird into the family home and explores that delicate and intimate balance in our lives between being the keeper or the kept, the lover or the loved.

Finders Keepers was developed through Creative New Zealand NEW WORK funding whilst Raewyn Hill and dancers were resident in Christchurch over Dec 08/ Jan 09.

Supported by the Farina Thompson Charitable Trust, managed by Perpetual Trust

Image courtesy of Michaela Cox

For a review on this performance visit http://www.theatreview.org.nz/reviews/production.php?id=1086

Pre-show talk with choreographer Raewyn Hill:

Friday 24 July, 6.30pm, The Great Hall, The Arts Centre