DANCING AT A PLUSH PARTY ON A SINKING SHIP

All You Can Eat Productions presents 
DAYBREAK ESTATE
Wellington - 8-12 March
Christchurch  - 17-19 March
Auckland - 7–9 April

Inspired by cheap champagne, faux luxury, and the destruction of our natural world, choreographer Jessie McCall brings four dancers to the stage for the joyful yet confronting dance-theatre work DAYBREAK ESTATE, playing in Wellington, Christchurch, and Auckland from March 8 – April 9, 2022.

Daybreak Estate pours you a glass of cheap champagne in mourning for the outright violence that we inflict upon our planet. Trapped in a decaying wellness retreat, the ritualistic nature of both our self-healing and self-destruction is examined. Our protagonists are equal parts social elite and primal pack, disconnected from the earth, yet face down in the mud.

Daybreak Estate was created in 2020 and premiered in Experimental Dance Week Aotearoa in the same year. Described by viewers as “haunting and charming”, “wildly clever” and “hilarious in a somewhat devastating way”, the enthusiastic response from audiences inspired this remount and tour in 2022.  The work has evolved since its first outing to reflect changes in the teams’ own lives and perspectives.

“Daybreak Estate is the name of a cheap cask-wine brand. I love the contrast and contradiction of this affordable, bulk, low brow product with the grand and rather elitist sounding name. I feel that it speaks to the inevitable and utterly human contradictions, underbellies, and facades that we all play with in life, and that this work explores.” - Jessie McCall

As in all of McCall’s work Daybreak Estate will offer bold physicality, intimacy, and a chance to laugh out loud. Her work refuses to tell the viewer what to takeaway, but she aims to provoke with a series of images and notions around luxury, glamour, community, environmental destruction, social sabotage, and the natural world. 

McCall has assembled an incredible group of dancers to bring this work to life who all bring their vast experience in the field of contemporary dance to the stage. Dancers include Liana Yew, Sharvon Mortimer, Olivia McGregor, and Terry Morrison. 

Daybreak Estate is refreshingly indefinable. The work pulls its audience into an intimate dance with their own vulnerability, destructiveness and sheer delight.

At all of the venues we will be keeping audiences and performers safe by adhering to the Ministry of Health guidelines for the Red Light alert setting.

DAYBREAK ESTATE

Wellington
8-12 March
Te Auaha (part of the NZ Fringe)
Te Auaha - Tapere Nui
Level 1, 65 Dixon Street, Te Aro
Tickets available here

Christchurch
17-19 March
Little Andromeda
Level 1/134 Oxford Terrace, Christchurch Central City
Tickets available here

Auckland:
7–9 April
Herald Theatre, Aotea Centre
50 Mayoral Drive, Auckland Central
Tickets available here