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About this event
- An electrifying non-stop performance distilling the intensity of a three-day rave into an hour-long spectacle of pure endurance.
From Aotearoa (New Zealand), Oli Mathiesen with Lucy Lynch and Sharvon Mortimer present the award-winning The Butterfly Who Flew Into The Rave, an endurance-based dance work set to the booming Detroit techno album Nocturbulous Behaviour by Suburban Knight.
Exploring the movement vocabulary used in techno through the atmosphere and culture of a three-day rave condensed into an hour. Witness the relentless movement of three bodies, seamless without pause, and detailed down to every beat. Indulge in the pain, sweat, and cathartic mess; a display of pure endurance to achieve a goal. The Butterfly Who Flew Into The Rave is a spectacle of the human body as a victim to music, passion, and our endless desire to achieve more: To win and win again.
As the show closes, you’ll be invited to remain in The Black Box and dance to a guest DJ at our very own Techno fueled night club, included in your ticket price.
Awards Winner of the Summerhall Arts ‘Bragi Award’ at Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025 Winner of the ‘PANNZ - Edinburgh Fringe Festival Summerhall Award’ at PANNZ Arts Market 2024 Winner of the ‘Melbourne Fringe Tour Ready Award’ at the New Zealand Fringe Festival 2024 Winner of the ‘Sydney Fringe Tour Ready Award’ at the New Zealand Fringe Festival 2024 Winner of the ‘Momentous Movement Award’ at the New Zealand Fringe Festival 2024
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Quotes "From the marketing campaign to the 55-minute endurance exercise in the theatre, The Butterfly Who Flew Into The Rave presents an entirely cohesive, outstanding work. It’s indicative of a realised creative vision. Whether or not you love a nightclub, whether or not it’s your world being lifted from and riffed on, you can’t help but marvel at it." - Theatreview
“Overall, The Butterfly Who Flew Into The Rave is an extraordinary dance work; a marvellous simulation of an intensely vigorous, volatile and transcendent rave. I am left feeling violently jealous not being able to join in under the infectious and lingering techno pulse.” - Theatreview
"This is dance theatre as pure ecstasy" ★★★★ The Scotsman
"It is relentless, as are the dancers" ★★★★ The Guardian
“The dancers are unremitting and relentless, as if each is connected to a personal generator parked outside.” ★★★★★ Broadway Baby
"An astonishing feat of endurance" ★★★★★ Theatre Weekly
Venue & location
The Black Box Theater, The Arts Center at NYU Abu Dhabi
The Black Box Theater , Saadiyat Marina District Abu Dhabi United Arab Emirates
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