MOTHER/JAW
25/02/2015 - 28/02/2015
Production Details
SOMETIMES YOUR MOTHER GIVES YOU SALT INSTEAD OF WATER
MOTHER/JAW
Choreography by Jahra Rager and Grace Woollett
Sometimes your tongue gets cut out of your mouth at birth. Sometimes your mother gives you salt instead of water. Sometimes you dye your clothes with someone else’s clay. Sometimes you mistake being a woman with being everyone else at once.
Inspired by Arts Pasifika Emerging Artist Award recipient Grace Taylor‘s poetry collection Afakasi Speaks, MOTHER/JAW is a haunting choreography by Jahra ‘Rager’ Wasasala and Grace Woollett with music by Addison Chase which premieres as a full length work at the Auckland Fringe from 25-28 February.
MOTHER/JAW is a raw contemporary dance work exploring the rites of passage into young womanhood.
MOTHER/JAW is a raw contemporary dance work connecting young mixed blood to old stolen blood. MOTHER/JAW is the ritual of moulding a new tongue from many earth’s.
MOTHER/JAW is every young woman’s jaw filled with their mother’s teeth.
MOTHER/JAW is a she-mongrel.
An excerpt of MOTHER/JAW was performed in Short and Sweet Dance 2014, where it won Judge’s Choice, Best Ensemble and Best Female Performer (Grace Woollett).
This is cutting contemporary dance – not to be missed this Fringe.
Auckland Fringe 2015 is an open access arts festival where anything can happen. It provides a platform for practitioners and audiences to unite in the creation of form forward experiences which are championed in an ecology of artistic freedom. The 2015 programme will see work happening all over the show, pushing the boundaries of performance Auckland wide from February 11 to March 1. www.aucklandfringe.co.nz
MOTHER/JAW plays
Dates: 25th – 28th February, 8.30pm
Venue: Basement Theatre, Lower Greys Ave, Auckland
Tickets: $18-$15
Bookings: http://www.iticket.co.nz/events/2015/feb/mother-jaw 0508 iTICKET (484-253)
Performers: Jahra 'Rager' Wasasla, Grace Woollett, Alisha Anderson and Vivian Hosking-Aue.Produced by Kerry Wallis.
Musician/Guitarist: Liam Kiely
Photography by Richard Symons.
Performance Poetry , Dance , Contemporary dance ,
50 mins
Dancing in the Fringe, Auckland 2015
Review by Paul Young 07th Apr 2015
The four contemporary dance productions in the 2015 Auckland Fringe Festival provide diverse representation of the local dance community as well as familiar themes and shared vocabularies. Inevitably it’s the riskier offerings which make the greatest impact.
In contemporary dance, game playing is often performed literally as a choreographic device while ‘game’ can also refer to the rules of any particular relational interplay. These ideas provide some common ground between the two group shows in this year’s festival …
Themes of matriarchy, bones, and identity link the other two works by choreographers at polar ends of their careers. …
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Jawdropping
Review by Matt Baker 01st Mar 2015
It has been said that at spoken word performances of Grace Taylor’s poetry collection, Afakasi Speaks, the inspiration for Mother/Jaw, that “the poem is wrapped in the body’s movement, and the body’s movement is wrapped in the poem.” This integration of word and movement has been taken on its natural progression by choreographers Jahra ‘Rager’ Wasasala and Grace Woollett, in what is simply a stunning multi-faceted performance…
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Provocative, political and powerful
Review by Carrie Rae Cunningham 26th Feb 2015
Sometimes your mother gives you salt instead of water.
Sometimes you dye your clothes with someone else’s clay.
Sometimes you mistake being a woman with being everyone else at once.
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