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A Resting Mess

A Resting Mess, Floor 8, 54 Moray Place, Dunedin

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Registration - Collective Nap: Free ($0.00)
Registration - Dancing with Rest - Public Dance Class: Free ($0.00)
Registration - Closing Event: Free ($0.00)
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Dates

Sat 22 Jul 2023, 2:00pm–3:30pm
Fri 28 Jul 2023, 1:00pm–2:00pm
Wed 2 Aug 2023, 6:00pm–8:00pm Cancelled
Sat 5 Aug 2023, 11:00am–1:00pm

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A RESTING MESS

An immersive community and performance space exploring rest and mess…

PUBLIC VISITING HOURS - Every Thurs/Fri/Sat 2-5pm, 20th July - 5th August (9 days total)

Come inside to explore an immersive installation or take a deep rest. Talk to the artists and/or observe them busy at work creating live sound and dance theatre. Read about Daisy’s many school and community workshops, write your own reflections about wrestling with the ‘mess’ and pace of life.

A RESTING MESS - OPENING EVENT - Saturday 22nd July, 2-3.30pm

Join us for an artist talk, guided rest, hot lunch (vegan soup and rolls) and a chance to explore the installation.

A RESTING MESS - COLLECTIVE NAP - Friday 28th July, 1-2pm

Extending a warm invitation to YOU, to REST. Get cosy and comfortable - create your own ‘resting nest’ for a lunchtime siesta in the CBD. Allow your brain’s theta waves to drift toward sleep supported by immersive soundscape.

DANCING WITH REST - Public Dance Class - Wednesday 2nd August, 6-8pm

Join Daisy for a class which invites us all to find more comfort, connection, care and sustainability in moving. Daisy will facilitate a mixture of improvisation prompts and offerings to encourage deeper listening to the body, permission and play. Gather in warm and creative community spirit to build yourself a ‘resting nest’ then dance in and out of it, observing and allowing the change of energy in yourself and others.

This dance class is open to anyone 13+ interested in dancing freely and mindfully. No prior dance experience required. Those with chronic fatigue, long covid, health or sensory processing challenges are particularly invited.

A RESTING MESS - CLOSING EVENT - Saturday 5th August, 11am-1pm

Join us for an immersive performance sharing - experience live sound and dance artists viscerally prioritising rest and navigating a tactile landscape of mess.

This will be followed by an artist talk and creative clean up in partnership with local waste warrior Res.Awesome. Hot lunch (vegan soup and rolls) provided!

ACCESS: Lift to 6th floor then 2 flights of stairs (not wheelchair accessible)

QUERIES: Please email daisy.sanders@otago.ac.nz

A RESTING MESS is the life work of this year’s University of Otago Caroline Plummer Fellow Daisy Sanders. The project stems from Daisy’s decade-long journey through endometritis and chronic fatigue, and the healing she has found through dance.

Daisy’s research intersects dance, performance making, health and community building - through a somatic and choreographic artistic approach. In A RESTING MESS Daisy creatively explores what it is to rest deeply and wrestle with the ‘mess’ and pace of our lives.

This project has been supported by the Dunedin Dream Brokerage with funding from the Dunedin City Council, and by the West Australian Government through the Department of Local Government, Sport and Cultural Industries.

Special thanks also to project partners Dance Ōtepoti, Stitch Kitchen, Otago Daily Times, Res.Awesome Dunedin waste warriors and the Noonan family.

Image credit Lisa Nakaora.

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