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✨Euro summer✨

Pickpockets got nothing on me 💅
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Tonight is the world premiere of ‘Just Between Me and Jesus’ at La Biennale di Venezia in Venice, Italy!

A co-production between La Biennale di Venezia, Auckland Live, Te Ahurei Toi o Tāmaki Auckland Arts Festival, Perth Festival, Sydney Opera House, and commissioning partner Teater V, ‘Just Between Me and Jesus’ is a violent collision of beliefs, where ritual and ceremony dissolve in an acid baptism. An electric performance of queer celebration that ruptures through the Catholic church. A work that interrogates the rub of two antonymous worlds, while harmonising on their share of cult and community.

‘Just Between Me and Jesus’ exaggerates and magnifies the inner guttural toilings of Christian-raised queer kids, and paints in lucid colour the catastrophic feelings of entropy and ecstasy as they abandon religion and adopt queer faith. Imagined through a medley of movement styles from ballroom, waacking, and vogue fem, paying homage to the sweaty and rhinestoned havens of the rave. Catholic iconography butts up against booming techno soundtracks of sonic club icons Underworld and LFO. This satirical and campily decorated work invites the latex-adjourned club kid and the virginal saint to pash under cross-fire.

Over the past 8 months, this mighty team has been working tirelessly, pouring every ounce of creativity, queerness, and aroha into bringing this vision to life. Tonight, we give birth to something unholy yet divine. A loud queerness that we would die for. A merging of the heavens and hells. I couldn’t be prouder of this team.

Venice
Teatro alle Tese, Arsenale | Venice Biennale Danza 2026
23 - 24 July | 6:00pm

Creator, Direction, and Choreography: @oli_sen
Dance Artists and Performers:
@sharvon_mortimer
@celiahext
@toaleipearl
@ravenfaasu
@sebjohn
@penifakaua
Creative Producer: @shonamccullagh
Set and Costume Design: @dan_williams_design
Lighting Design: @filamenteleven11 Rachel Marlow, Brad Gledhill
Sound Design and Original Composition: @alistair_deverick
Producer: @beebunnies
Production Manager: @jokilgour
Stage Manager/Mechanist: @jamesthemuss666
Light and Sound Operator: @spooky_pete
Rehearsal Director: @torbitor
Artistic Advisor: @rossmccormack
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