As part of its vision to provide connection, collaboration and creation within the dance sector, Wellesley Studios is pleased to invite you to our final 'Friday Features - Series 5' evening a Double Bill | Curated Performance Evening featuring works by Janaína Moraes and Rachel Ruckstuhl-Mann

‘Friday Features - Series 5’ will be hosted over a period of 3 weeks on Friday evenings from 6pm – 8pm. These sessions offer the opportunity for artists to share about themselves and their work or areas of interest. All sessions are free of charge and will culminate with connection and discussion.

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"HOLDING ONTO DESIRE"

Janaína Moraes

This is a performance of unknowing. An attempt of being together. A cartography of desires.

In this performance/talk/hang out we would like to invite you to hold on to things that you care about and, maybe, find yourself embodying discussion towards choreography, language, slippage, dis/placement, affect and community.

About Janaína:

Janaína Moraes is a Brazilian dance, performance & research artist who is interested in investigating contexts for collaboration within notions of the invitation poetics, art residencies and language transition. Founder of the arts gathering Abrindo a Sala. She is a PhD candidate at the Dance Studies Department in the University of Auckland and has a Master in performing arts from UnB (Brazil).

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"Organs Dreaming: Visceral Evolutions:"

Rachel Ruckstuhl-Mann

A study of super-skin states and transformations, developed in relation to objects and overlapping narratives of water, parenting and taniwha. This is a solo exploration incorporating Kāitahutaka, somatic practices, and domestic objects - a propositional space without answers.

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About Rachel:

Rachel is a kickass human being specialising in the practice of being and evolving into a joyfully distracted conscientious activator in Te Ao Mārama, otherwise known as our multidimensional timespace. With formal training in things and ideas from places and people - mostly related to communicating parallel universes of knowing and moving, she enjoys offering uncomfortable moments within familiar settings to enable shifts of consciousness, feeling or state.

Rachel has also managed to create two mostly autonomous and interdependent life systems whilst steadily maintaining a movement and teaching practice based in, and spiralling out of Tāmaki Makaurau, Auckland.

For a glimpse of works, practices and images she has participated in, co-created, or generated, head to http://seriousaroha.blogspot.com/p/performance.html