
Big Low Dream
Ominous and funny, intimate and sweeping, BIG LOW DREAM is a rehearsal of possible futures — tender, desperate, and rising.
BIG LOW DREAM is a new contemporary dance work about what we reach for, together, in the dark. Choreographer Jessie McCall looks to dream logic - unruly, queer, ethically imaginative, as a way to hold onto meaning in a time of overlapping crises. Paradises slip their frames. Unexpected pleasures co-inhabit with the unthinkable. Spectacle flirts with collapse.
"McCall is brave, undeterred, and deeply creative, with a genuine intention of making a difference in human perspective.
Big Low Dream is a realm unto itself. The piece is a visual art feast of loaded imagery that explores the unconscious mind and the boundaries of reality and fantasy.
Big Low Dream crosses genres: it is as much performance art as it is dance, as it is installation. " - Tessa Martin, Theatreview.
Creative Team
Footnote New Zealand Dance: Airu Matsuda
Guest artists: Caleb Heke, Sasha Matsumoto, Millie Maden
Choreographer: Jessie McCall
Sound Design: Thomas Arbor
Lighting Design: Tony Black
Set & Costume Sewist: Anne de Geus
2026 Tour Information
Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington
Hannah Playhouse
10 - 12 September
Õtautahi Christchurch
Papa Hou
19 September
Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland
Q Loft
25 & 26 September