Performances
Tohaino o painga ki te ao
Share your gifts with the world
Jolt has developed a dynamic performance programme that has rewired how audiences with and without disabilities see and understand the world.
Upcoming Performances
Gathered Together inclusive dance festival, Tramway, Glasgow 4th - 7th September 2024 Help to get us to Glasgow
Relaxed Performance, with Christchurch Symphony Orchestra, 7th November 2024
Performance Programme
Jolt Interactive
Jolt Interactive creates dance and theatre experiences for audiences with intellectual disabilities that are fully accessible, and which deliver the immediacy and power of live performance.
Highly interactive, multi-sensory and intimate, Jolt Interactive productions have been designed to allow each audience member to find and express their own creative voice, in their own space. Past Jolt Interactive productions include Fish and Song.
For 2023, a new Jolt Interactive production titled UP, was presented in partnership with Chamber Music New Zealand at The Little Theatre (Lower Hutt), TAPAC (Auckland) and Altiora (Christchurch). Devised and directed by Lyn Cotton, UP featured circo-artist Danny Lee Syme, Jolt performers Jacob Levington, Renée Ryan and Aleasha Seaward, and musicians Reuben Derrick (Saxophone + Clarinet), Pablo Ruiz Henao (Sousaphone + Flugelhorn) and Mark La Roche (Percussion).
(UP) was like riding on a wave, sometimes very gentle, sometimes crashing down. We really marveled at the way the mood in the theatre was high energy one minute and then so gentle and calm. There were so many incredible elements, music; lighting; costume; props (the story you managed to tell with the boxes was magic!!)
Whakapapa
Featuring 6 of Jolt’s dancers, each of Pasifika, Māori, Indian or Pākehā heritage, Whakapapa explores concepts of self-identity and each dancer’s connections to their culture, history and ancestors.
Whakapapa was premiered in the Off Centre Festival at The Arts Centre in March 2023.
The Seasons
In November 2022, National Disability Arts Partner Chamber Music New Zealand presented The Seasons, featuring 11 of Jolt’s dancers with violin soloist Martin Riseley and musicians from the Christchurch Symphony Orchestra performing Max Richter’s ingeniously re-imagined score of Vivaldi’s famous Four Seasons, in Wellington, New Plymouth, Napier, Christchurch, Invercargill and Dunedin.
In what often feels like an uncertain and crazy world, especially after the isolation and "pause” that COVID created for everyone – including the arts, The Seasons tour has given us back some much-needed beauty.
Biennale
Featuring over 130 dancers from all Jolt classes, the Biennale is a joyous celebration of diversity and difference. The next Biennale will take place on October 2024.
Takiwātanga
Developed by Carl Te Tone Huia and directed by Artistic Director Lyn Cotton, Takiwātanga is an autobiographical work that explores Carl’s view of the world - a view shaped by his whakapapa, his wairua, and his lived experience of Autism.
Carl and Kereana Mosen performed Takiwātanga in London at the 40th anniversary of Amici Dance Theatre Company in June 2022.
Takiwātanga has also been performed by Carl and Aleasha Seaward at the 2021 Whānau Ora Symposium in Dunedin, at Rehua Marae and for Hei Whakapiki Mauri.