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Big Low Dream

2026

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