Last chance to see contemporary dance and AV-art show Beautiful City

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Beautiful City concludes its three city tour this Saturday at Galatos in Auckland as part of the Tempo Festival of Dance.

Incorporating live dance, music and video performance, Beautiful City explores the frantic energy of city life in contrast with the haunting beauty and emptiness of the New Zealand landscape.

This exciting new multimedia dance work features 'improvography' by contemporary dancers Kristian Larsen and Juliet Milsom with a live original soundtrack by Eden Mulholland and video-art by Beautiful City director Rob Appierdo.

Following a recent four-night season at Bats Theatre in Wellington, Beautiful City was summed up by a critic from the Lumiere Reader as "a true collaboration between music, dance and video elements in a way that each complemented and enhanced the other, rather than competing with or compromising the other." In her review for The Dominion Post, dance writer Jennifer Shennan described the show as "taking the temperature of urban life" and having "a ritual-like quality, in which everyone's thoughts remain private, but pose the question of whether solitude is a synonym for loneliness."