In Flagrante is an Auckland-based dance theatre company blending contemporary choreography with the bold spirit of neo-burlesque. Since 2011, they’ve performed to thousands to great acclaim across New Zealand and internationally — from the Edinburgh Fringe to Germany and a private commission in the Seychelles.

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The all-female cast uses sexuality as a weapon of satire, delivering short, sharp vignettes that challenge sexual stereotypes with humour, wit, and provocative flair.

 

As one Melbourne reviewer put it: “The whole thing, all these little stories — it was all so good.”

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"In Flagrante is a sexy, thought-provoking, sensual experience and I can't wait to see where they go from here."

- Frodo Allan, Broadway Baby, Edinburgh
 

" In Flagrante. In flames. Red handed. Sexy, sophisticated, knives-out choreography complemented by killer designs, realised by five supremely talented performers from New Zealand."

- William Glenn UK

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Current In Flagrante dances:

• From the toxic utopia of ‘Our Day will Come’ …

• Horses– satirising the sexuality of being in the saddle and bondage.

• The ex Great Redondo – A magician’s assistant turns the tables on the great man himself.

• Group Bondage– a gratuitous parody of bondage – satirising the bimbo blonde, the coquettish woman.

• Blindfold– inspired by Spirit of Ecstasy on the bonnet of the Rolls Royce.

• Memory – captured inside a moment of time…a caged soul looking for a safe haven in a dystopian world

• North Korean Traffic girl with an attitude problem explores women in uniform, as signallers and authority figures who subvert and override the male construct.

• Marching Girls– White Knights, marching girls redux – a 21st century take on a great kiwi icon.

• Pikelet– a wholesome recipe from the Edmonds cookbook for a satisfying life, from the deeply sexist annals of Aunt Daisy and her recipe home cooked suburban neurosis.
  - Dream Girl-  a squeegee girl on the intersection - hustler at the crossroads
  -Sylvia - A bald faced send-up of the classic solo – saccharine sweet classicist meets profane alter ego.

• Venus – a new take on the hallowed image of Botticelli’s virginal Venus. From the half shell to the shell shocked.

• Nurses–  an excursion into deep fetish, from colonics to inoculations. A tribute to nurses as sex objects, Bond Girls and custodians of bodily functions.

• Punked Cancan where it started out; raucous, raw and raunchy.

• Summertime– Tennessee Williams meets gym bunnies. A saga of sweat, sex and satisfaction.

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"Choreographer and director Mary-Jane O’Reilly has taken the vignettes and her dancers and given them meaning, pizazz, a touch of glamour, a sprinkling of humour and stunning choreography. The performers’ enjoyment and their understanding of the genre and what they’re doing is credible and engaging."

- Liddy Clarke, Stage Noise Melbourne

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