Fol­low­ing a sold-out Auck­land sea­son in 2016, and a 10-centre tour of the United States, Black Grace and Tour-Makers are proud to tour the crit­ic­ally acclaimed As Night Falls to sev­en nation­al centres from 22 June – 6 July around Aotearoa.

A poet­ic ode to our troubled world, As Night Falls is Artist­ic Dir­ect­or Neil Ieremia’s latest full length work, beau­ti­fully set to the time­less and pas­sion­ate sound of Ant­o­nio Viv­aldi. He says “As Night Falls is bold and bright like the col­our­ful muumuu dresses worn by my moth­er without shame or cere­mony. I had ini­tially wanted this work to be the expres­sion of my con­cerns and fears of the dark­ness that seems to be erod­ing the value of equal­ity and human life. Instead, I feel com­pelled to respond with a con­trast­ing beauty and phys­ic­al vital­ity, music­al­ity and hope.  It is my offer of beauty for ashes.”

Black Grace was foun­ded by Neil Ieremia in 1995 and con­tin­ues to draw inspir­a­tion from his Sam­oan and New Zea­l­and roots to cre­ate innov­at­ive dance works that reach across social, cul­tur­al and gen­er­a­tion­al bar­ri­ers. Ieremia has been met with wide­spread recog­ni­tion for his leg­acy of work from both audi­ences and crit­ics alike, all over the globe. He has taken home the Seni­or Pacific Artist Award from Cre­at­ive New Zea­l­and and has made the Queen’s Birth­day Hon­ours List becom­ing an Officer of the New Zea­l­and Order of Mer­it.