The Dust Palace

The Dust Palace is a circus theatre company based in Auckland, New Zealand. It was co-founded by actors Eve Gordon and Mike Edward in 2009.[1]

History

In 2009 Eve Gordon created a fringe burlesque show Burlesque As You Like It: Not A Family Show which questioned the place of burlesque in contemporary society and engaged with its political and theatrical beginnings. The company was formed with members of the cast and crew following the success of this show.[2]

The Dust Palace performs original devised works incorporating traditional theatre, physical theatre, dance and circus arts.[3]

In 2012 the Dust Palace leased a warehouse in Auckland suburb Maungakiekie-Tamaki, Penrose which became their studio [4] and also houses The Dust Palace School which teaches circus skills to adults and children. A scholarship programme was started in 2014 to provide a year's worth of free classes for twelve young people.[5]

In 2019 the Dust Palace moved to a new premises [6] with a higher ceiling for the aerialists.[7]

Productions
  • Burlesque As You Like It: Not A Family Show (2009)
  • The Moon's Insane and other stories... (2009)
  • The Sexy Recession Cabaret (2009) (co-production)
  • Love and Money (2010)
  • Venus is... (2011)
  • Cirque Non Sequitur (2012)
  • ...with a stranger... (2013)
  • Same Same But Different (2013)
  • Knock, Knock (2013)
  • Top of the Heap (2015)
  • Ithaca (2015)
  • The Goblin Market (2016)
  • Midnight (2017)
  • Human (2018)
  • The WonderWombs (2018)
  • Dawn (2019)
  • PULP (2020)

References
  1. Dekker, Diana (8 March 2013). "A Divine Body of Work". The Dominion Post. Retrieved 9 March 2015.
  2. The Big Idea (19 September 2012). "TBI Q&A: Eve Gordon". The Big Idea. Retrieved 9 March 2015.
  3. Simei-Barton, Paul (21 February 2013). "Theatre review: Amazing acts of derring do". The New Zealand Herald. Retrieved 9 March 2015.
  4. Bertrand, Kelly (9 November 2012). "Mike Edward and Eve Gordon: 'Our unconventional romance'". The New Zealand Woman's Weekly. Retrieved 9 March 2015.
  5. Rogers, Ben (2 July 2014). "Swing in to circus fun". East & Bays Courier. Retrieved 9 March 2015.
  6. Press Release, The Dust Palace (22 January 2019). "The Dust Palace Opens New Studio After Successful Campaign". Scoop Media. Retrieved 24 March 2019.
  7. Christian, Dionne (8 July 2018). "Cirque company The Dust Palace moves to fly higher". The New Zealand Herald. Retrieved 20 March 2019.
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