Highlight Curation

Event: Highlght Artists: Too Many to Mention (See individual projects) Collaborators:  Highlight Core Team (event Production) Image Credits: See individual projects Every year was an amazing challenge to take a theme for the overall event and cast or invent performance that both fit the theme and also elegantly included an element of light. This wasn’t […]

Kingston Buskers Festival

Event: Kingston Buskers Festival Artists: Zane Jarvie (Performer)Imogen Stone (Perfomer)Degge Jarvie (Performer) Image Credits: Collaborator Name (Role) It is important to remember big milestones, and this is definately one of them. It was icredibly special to share one of shows with an international audience and have it be such a success! Since then we have […]

Maritime Heritage

Event: LUX VIP Opening Artists: Imogen Stone (aerialist) Collaborators:  Zane Jarvie (Live Counterweight)Nic Balkum (Rigging)Maritime Heritage Trust (Boat) In collaboration with the ‘Maritime Heritage Trust’ we brought our Glow Lyra piece to the Wellington Waterfront. Performing on the Hikitia Steam Powered Crane Boat, this is one of the heighest rigging points we have worked with, […]

Circus BBQ Party

https://vimeo.com/1085856585?share=copy&fl=sv&fe=ci Event: World Buskers Festival Artists: Matthias Goed (performer)Nicole Maisey (Performer)Katelyn Reed (Performer) Collaborators:  Zane Jarvie (director)Victoria Gridley (Costume Design) Image Credits: Degge Jarvie (Videographer) We’ve since toured from Paihia, to Christchurch and many places in between! It was a real absolute pleasure to be programmed as part of the World Buskers Festival -one of […]

What if the City was a Theatre?

Event: What if the city was a theatre? Artists: Firstname Lastname (role), Firstname Lastname (role) Collaborators:  Collaborator Name (Role) Image Credits: Collaborator Name (Role) We had four works programmed three of which were existing pieces, adapted into new environments, one was the debut presentation of “Adrift” set on the Hikitea Crane Boat “What if the […]

Zoo

Event: Wellington Zoo Family Day Artists: Imogen Stone (aerialist) Image Credits: Zane Jarvie (Photographer) Our favourite was the aerial Lyra performance overlooking the chimpanzees. The audience even said the animals mimicked the performance. The Zoo was putting on a family day and wanted to attract new visitors to the Zoo. Our brief was to create […]

Light as Lead

Event: Highlight Artists: Anita Clarke aka MOTTE (musician & composer)Imogen Stone (aerialist) Rosita Hendry (aerialist) Collaborators:  Real Steel (Infrastructure)Yoocrew (Rigging) Image Credits: Zane Jarvie (Photographer) The machine presented a very unique structure and we used its shape and rigging capacity as key drivers for the piece. We created a twenty minute spectacle exploring weight transfer, […]

Libel Duet

Event: Architecture and Design Awards Gala Artists: Katelyn Reed (dancer)Imogen Stone (dancer) Collaborators:  Eden Mulholland (Music)Anita Clark aka MOTTE (Music) Image Credits: Degge Jarvie (Videographer) This apparatus was originally designed by Mädir Eugster Rigolo of Swiss Nouveau Cirque, the apparatus was introduced to Aotearoa by acclaimed aerialist and original Libel artist Jenny Ritchie. The Aotearoa […]

Lightbulb

https://vimeo.com/271605166?share=copy&fl=sv&fe=ci Event: Highlight Artists: Sophia O’Connor (aerialist)Laila Smith (aerialist)Imogen Stone (aerialist) Collaborators:  McColl Engineering (Manufacturer)King and Dawson (Engineer) Image Credits: Degge Jarvie (Videographer) Collaboration with local engineers, manufacturers & aerialists made this vision come to life. Once it was up and running audiences were drawn to it like moths, and it became a gathering point […]

Family Christmas Cabarets

Event: Wellington Family Christmas Events Artists: Zane Jarvie (Juggler)Degge Jarvie (Juggler)Imogen Stone (Aerialist)Jair Ramerez (Aerialist)Shona Conacher (Hula Hoops)Mim Conyers (Contortion) Image Credits: Anonymous  The cast has included incredible local talent alongside incredible national and international artists passing through. The Wellington Christmas event has changed and morphed over the years but one thing has stayed the […]