PAH is a cross-arts performance that plays at the edges of time.
Eight performers lead audiences inside and outside the house and grounds of the Pah Homestead and Monte Cecilia Park as they riff on stories and gesture to past inhabitants.
Moving through an installation of paintings by Star Gossage and portrait photography by Solomon Mortimer, the colonial heritage house is revealed to be a place of many layers. In this ambulatory performance ghosts emerge from the past to dance in the present.
Developed at the TSB Wallace Arts Trust Pah Homestad Arts Centre, Mt Roskill, Auckland City with support from the University of Otago, the James WAllace TSB Arts Trust Residency, the University of Auckland and Creative New Zealand. You can download archival materials for PAH here.
Set amongst the lush landscape of the Monte Cecilia grounds and embracing a range of different storytelling modes the performance is structured almost as if in a dream sequence where ghosts from the past move freely, intersecting with audiences, amidst a site that echoes with memories and unspoken stories.
—Joseph, D. (2015). Close encounters with PAH. The Big Idea NZ.
Energetic and spontaneous... a magical experience.
—Dart, W. (2015). New Zealand Herald.
The PĀ Collective's concept for this production was nothing short of brilliant.
—Lahatte, D. (2015). PAH: Reviving ghosts. National Business Review.
Composition—Gillian WhiteheadChoreography—Carol BrownVisual Art—Star GossageDramaturgy—Fiona GrahamPhotography—Solomon MortimerDesign—Sean CoyleCuration—Grant Hall
Sound Installation - Russell ScoonesProduction—Esther Green Dancers—Kelly Nash, Nancy Wijohn, Zahra Killeen-Chance, Emilia Rubio, Haanz Fa'avae JacksonMusicians—Luca Magni, Katherine Hebley, Andrew Uren Commissioned By—TSB Wallace Arts Trust Pah Homestead Arts Centre
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