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Sit, Sit

A one-hour performance of everyday actions framed as music. An evening of performance pieces by composers from around the world, plus a new piece made by Second Company.

$10 - $25 (Service fees may apply)
60 minutes
Sat 29 October 2022

Please note: Second Company do not wish for any audience members to miss out on this show due to a lack of funds. If these prices are at all inaccessible to you, please email boxoffice@qtheatre.co.nz for more accessible prices.


Sit, Sit is a one-hour show of everyday actions framed as music. We have curated an evening of performances by composers from around the world, plus a new piece made by us, Second Company.

From the rhythmicised, highly tactile, gestural elements of Winnie Huang’s Tentacles, to James O’Callaghan’s ode to books, a "proposition" by Alison Knowles, and Marcus Jackson’s employment of the seemingly obnoxious referee’s whistle as an expression of detailed beauty and careful delicacy, Sit, Sit is a show that contemplates the banal and uncovers delight.

In our own work, co-created through casual and philosophical conversation, interrogatory devising methods, and rigorous, detailed composition, we involve speech/song, movement/dance, gesture/theatre as musical materiality, and explore concepts of distance and communication. Comprised of various attempts to bridge a distance, our efforts will be clear: between us is a horizon, and this is the music of that horizon.

We formed Second Company to provide a platform for post-instrumental music and composed theatre in Aotearoa, and hope you enjoy this first offering!

Performers: Second Company (Antonia Barnett-McIntosh & Elliot Vaughan)
Stage manager: Kassandra Wang
Featuring compositions by: Winnie Huang, Marcus Jackson, Alison Knowles, James O'Callaghan, and Second Company.

Thank you to Creative New Zealand for funding towards this tour.

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