Thursday by the Borderline Arts Ensemble (NZ)

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"Thursday" is a dance duet created for Wellington Railway Station by the artists of Borderline Arts Ensemble.

Choreography + Direction: Lucy Marinkovich
Performance + Movement Contributions: Hannah Tasker-Poland + Emmanuel Reynaud
Premiere: Wellington Railway Station in the Performance Arcade (February 2019).

“It’s just a 13 minute love dance on the marble floor of a railway station, by a man and a woman who keep their coats on while they fall into the depths of each other’s eyes and drown there, just managing to save each other by doing beautiful things, whatever their bodies will allow— like waves and billows, like leaning and longings, with arms, and hands, with legs, feet, faces, eyes, the backs of their heads too—they don’t always need to be watching to know what the other is doing, they can just tell. He knows they will never have to argue or disagree, they will love and hold and be held forever. This is better than all the lyrics of all the love songs on all the shelves of all the music shops of the world.” - Jennifer Shennan, from michellepotter.org

“I wish Thursday was longer. Not something I would typically say but in the case of Thursday by the Boarderline Arts Ensemble, Friday can wait. They begin their pas de deux, their movements fluid and graceful as they move singularly and together around the floor, their simple brown trench coats flowing, an extension of their movements.

As described on the Performance Arcade website Thursday, inspired by the 1945 classic Brief Encounter, creates a brief encounter – 12 minutes to be exact - with the arts for Wellington’s unsuspecting public. More of a crowd starts to form as those unsuspecting commuters become aware of the show, expertly choreographed Borderline's Artistic Director Lucy Marinkovich. A couple of young girls whisper behind me; ‘they are so strong, so beautiful.” And that they are, especially when together moving as one, both taking turns lifting and spinning each other. And just like that, Thursday is over. The dancers walk off into the masses, one through the front doors and the other with the commuters to the train platform. The crowd disperses. The train to Johnsonville departs. Brief but beautiful” - Natasha Thyne, Theatreview.

"The Performance Arcade has a pink line running from its home site behind Te Papa to the Railway Station. All roads should lead to Thursday - a short superb dance work by Lucy Marinkovich that surprises as you enter the station forecourt. Two dancers meet, dance, long to be together, and in a sweeping, soaring, lyrical dance duet, this relationship is allowed to find a passion - only to be relinquished as the dancers move on. The venue is perfect and feels like a step back into a European yet universal film genre (Third Man) and Hannah Tasker-Poland and Manu Reynaud are outstanding.

Passers-by paused, stopped, and missed their trains on Thursday, caught in the magic of a mastery of movement that is rarely seen on stage let alone in a railway station! Left to dream of passing encounters that may have been or may be promised in our lives, we stepped back into reality touched by a choreography that took us on a physical and emotional journey - and back to catch a train or walk into the sunshine - beautifully crafted and realised by Lucy and her cast" - Deirdre Tarrant, Theatreview.

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