Andi Crown Photography
Julia Croft & Nisha Madhan
Venue
Helen Gardiner Phelan Playhouse
THU AUG 13, 10:00 PM
FRI AUG 14, 10:00 PM
SAT AUG 15, 10:00 PM
60 Minutes
Ticket Price
$20 / $35 / $50
Working On My Night Moves is a mesmerising, genre-defying live work that spirals through tinfoil astronauts, dispersing atoms and Wizard of Oz dream logic, soundtracked by Enya and dubstep mashups.
Created by award-winning artists Julia Croft and Nisha Madhan, this acclaimed performance breaks rules, the patriarchy and the space-time continuum. Part science fiction, part science fact, part fever dream, it reaches toward multiple feminist futurisms while playfully dismantling the structures that contain them. Across shifting images, bodies and beats, the work inverts, makes and remakes time and space in a bold gesture toward the impossible. Both irreverent and searching, it is an ode to utopia and the restless desire to imagine otherwise.
Performer & Creator: Julia Croft
Director & Creator: Nisha Madhan
Performer & Operator: Rebecca Jensen
Lighting Design: Calvin Hudson
Sound Design: Te Aihe Butler
Original Compositions: Jason Wright
Performance Design: Meg Rollandi
juliacroft.com
nishamadhan.com
This presentation of Working On My Night Moves is generously supported with funding from Creative New Zealand.
Sensory: contains flashing lights and latex
SummerWorks Performance Festival
August 6-16, 2026
Tickets on Sale > July 13th!
This year’s Festival theme, Fight | Flight brings forward urgent creative responses to this troubling moment in time. Across the 2026 Festival, artists root themselves in place, community, ancestry, and practice, while also shifting perspectives, rewriting histories, and creating new narratives through the body, exploring memory, consent, transformation, and identity, through resistance, humour, and intimacy.