Leaving home, 2009

Leaving home, 2009

Leaving home, 2009   Leaving home is Bolwell’s tribute to her great, great, great grandmother Jane Broadfoot who left Scotland as a young newly married woman in 1843. “I find myself returning to my Celtic roots which become more important as I grow...
Choros, 2009

Choros, 2009

Choros, 2009   Choros was the main dance in our tenth anniversary show, performed at the 2009 Wellington Fringe Festival. audience dazed, delighted and disconcerted. Choros is a sensuous Bacchanalian revel danced to View From Olympus by acclaimed New Zealand...
Requiem, 2008

Requiem, 2008

Requiem, 2008   Requiem celebrates the memory of Jan Bolwell’s sister Fiona, who died of cancer in 2006. The emotional power of this dance was obvious during its first season in September 2007, at Wellington Fringe performances in February-March 2008, and in...
Going for Baroque, 2006

Going for Baroque, 2006

Going for Baroque, 2006     Going for Baroque performed to Handel’s Water Music. Living on the edge of Wellington’s beautiful harbour, the Crows have taken images from their immediate surroundings and transformed them into a series of dances. You may...
The Woman’s Mag, 2005

The Woman’s Mag, 2005

 The Woman’s Mag, 2005 “This show is about one of New Zealand women’s most important and enduring icons, the New Zealand Woman’s Weekly. I picked up the 70th anniversary publication on the magazine and I thought — what a great idea for a dance...