Poltroon is the no-holds-barred project of Ōtautahi musicians Reuben Derrick and Joseph McCallum. Instrumentation includes drums, saxophone, clarinets and other resonating objects. Poltroon perform rituals of ecstatic improvised music that dance in your head, perhaps conjuring forgotten voices and exorcising latent demons.

“Your sanity needs Poltroon” - Gerard Crewdson

Joseph McCallum is a drummer who works extensively around the world with some of Aotearoa’s most innovative and well liked songwriters and composers. He is equally at home across genres from country to free jazz.

Reuben Derrick is a reed player and field recordist whose recent collaborations have taken him to Sri Lanka, Poland, Austria, Slovenia, Croatia and around Aotearoa. In December he will be performing with a Sri Lankan ritual group together with the Australian Art Orchestra.Poltroon is a punk jazz project between McCallum and Derrick in which ecstatic rhythms and melodies emerge at points towards and beyond the end of physical and musical endurance, as their full acoustic energy is unleashed.

Performing Object I is an exhibition of new work by David Huggins, a moving durational sculpture throughout which the audience is welcome to come and go.

David Huggins began dancing while completing his psychology degree in New Zealand. After graduating from a Bachelor of Dance at the Victorian College of the Arts, he has been working consistently with Russell Dumas’ Dance Exchange in Melbourne performing nationally and internationally.

David has also worked for choreographers Douglas Wright (NZ), Xavier Le Roy (FR) and Rhiannon Newton (AUS). He recently presented his first full length work, Once More, with Feeling at the Dunedin Fringe Festival.

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