***Due to unforeseen circumstances this event is unable to go ahead***

Auckland poet Peter Le Baige has spent decades flying under the literary radar. On a recent circling of Tamaki Makaurau he flew straight into known director and award-winning actress Willa O’Neill, and pulling up, perched for a chat with her. She had thought of putting together a fringe event of young dance and theatrical talent. He had thought of a poetry reading of pieces from his ‘Owl to Owl’ blog (www.owltoowl.wordpress.com). She asked him about the poems, and he responded they were “lyric 'sighs' in response to common mysteries that address us, such as a flight of birds in dusk, or the granulations of rain and storm, the stumble into love, the transforming of animate to inanimate, the faces of nature pressed to our senses, and the sweet thievery of garden fruits; they are a hauling on the rope to draw from the well’s depth the jasmine-scented spring water of the serpent-sexed divine.” ‘Well and good’, said Willa, ‘but I think we need to breathe them out through young voices and limbs in movement, get the owl off its perch, so to speak, and let the words find their equivalents in dynamic bodies, and faces”. Thus ‘Dancing the Owl’ by Concertina Productions puts a graceful cat among word pigeons, and gets them to soar and swoop on stage, each poem seen in hearing, heard in seeing.