The Dust Palace Goes Legal!

Media Release: 9 February 2010

After Five years of Hard Grind the Dust Palace Goes Legal!

Renowned for their striking aerial sequences THE DUST PALACE has recently evolved beyond an informal partnership to a limited liability company to cope with the increasing demand for their salacious and highly stylized theatrical productions.

"...the ensemble's sex appeal is grounded in skill, drollery and chutzpah rather than

fake, plastic supershininess. Move over Barbie; the circus Bohemians are in town."

-          The Sexy Recession Cabaret, Janet McAllister, NZ Herald

The Dust Palace‘s mission is to offer opportunities for audiences to experience different perspectives on life through creating magical, physical, humorous, politically infused theatre.  Led by the talented dynamo Eve Gordon, 2010 sees the company primarily dedicating itself to a 4 centre national tour of their hit show “Burlesque as You Like It” giving audiences all over the country the opportunity to experience the DUST PALACE at its very best.

The Dust Palace has created over twelve performance and theatrical events over the last five years. They've conceived, produced and realized everything from festivals, through script based theatre, film festivals and screenings, cross discipline artworks, to aerial theatre and burlesque.

"...the talented performers dissolve the boundaries between their disciplines to create fifty minutes of striking physical,musical and descriptive imagery."

-          The Moon's Insane, Jacob Tamaiparea, Theatreview

Members of The Dust Palace include Nisha Madhan (the late Shanti of our fabulous

Shortland St), Mike Edward (The ThirtyNine Steps, The Strip), dancer Geof Gilson, singer actor Colleen Davis (Oliver!), performer musician Callum Edwin Stembridge (Le Petit Cheval),and physical theatre performer, producer and director Eve Gordon.

Whilst the company has, this year chosen to focus on the social, political, comedic and tantalizing nature of the Burlesque genre they plan to continue their work in a variety of performance genre’s in the future. “Although, I can't deny there will probably be something a bit outrageous in everything we do” says Gordon.

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