Six dancers from Crows Feet were involved in a performance at Te Papa in December. The piece entitled "The Monstrous Red Dress" was the work of Lauren Skogstad, and formed part of her studies in Spatial Design for Massey University.

It was an amazing experience being part of this event. Lauren's creative thinking and design is exceptional and the impact of the train going over the edge of the building and hanging down was very powerful. The performance day was a creative delight, although because of the wild wind the final throwing of the red train over the side of the building was more complex and we had to improvise with what we could do with the grey dress/train.

As we came around the corner of Te Papa, holding for dear life onto Tania's grey and red trains, I felt moved to tears (apart form the wind creating it's own tears in my eyes!) as Tania looked up at Elizabeth. The power of the wind was in the powerfulness of the production. Because of the danger of Tania 'taking off' we had to change the ending and return her to the point at which the red dress started, thus emphasizing the interweaving of the sensual and flamboyant red, with the more sombre everyday grey - even the business/everyday woman has a sensual and flamboyant self!