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.