A PERFORMANCE EXPERIENCE

DARK!DARK!DARK! is a living bestiary entangled within an epoch, in between the collapse of one world and the birth of another.  DARK!DARK!DARK! opens a door to a pluriverse of subterranean ancestral ecologies that thrive in the descent, challenging us to remake and remember ourselves amidst ecological terror. DARK!DARK!DARK! is a mutation of multiple realities of resistance, shared by humanoids, creatures and those who defy form altogether. 

Sharing multiple worlds within a work, DARK!DARK!DARK! is a multi-disciplinary performance that dreams into known and speculative Tagata Moana lineages of darkness and story-telling, embodying the pantheon of forms that inhabit them. Pushing the boundaries of their physicality, three performers shed their skin and become the unbecoming; using genre-bending dance, character distortion, harsh vocalisation, live Metalcore music, experimental sound design and larger than life light and costume design elements as catalysts. Audiences take their place as co-story-tellers within DARK!DARK!DARK!, as their choices and pathways define their experiences throughout the performance.

A highly-anticipated epic directorial debut of CONJAH and collaborators, DARK!DARK!DARK! invites you to submerge and turn your sight towards some of our oldest Oceanic subterranean ancestors; the unnameable, the mutated, the beyond-body, the weird, the hybrid, the reborn, the buried, the unmade, the decaying, the endless - the DARK. 

“Astonishing. Like seeing through the walls of someone’s body. This has me shocked all the way through”
— Audience member

“I’ve never witnessed anything like it, so raw and real, transported to another place. A place that feels so familiar yet unknown, a place I feel we all need to spend more time in. And to be taken there all together! A collective dream.”
— Audience member

CREATIVE TEAM

JAHRA WASASALA & OOSHCON - Performance Directors / Performers
ELEKIS POBLETE TEIRNEY - Lighting Design Director
OLIVA ‘SPEWER’ LUKI - Sound Design Director
NO PITY - Sound Design Director
JOSAIA WASASALA - Performer
STEVEN JUNIL-PARK - Costume Design Director
KASI VALU - Producer
SHAQUILLE WASASALA - Opening Act Artist
ALEX DALLAS - Stage Manager
JAMES KEARNEY - Head Technician

FRANCES CARTER - Poster Photography
ALISHA THIA - Physical Conditioning Coach
TIMOTHY RUSSELL - Font Design

Commissioned by KIA MAU FESTIVAL
Supported by CREATIVE NEW ZEALAND, THE BANFF CENTRE D.A.I.R and Victor Quijada, DANCENORTH A.R.T RESIDENCY, LGI RESIDENCY, READYMADE WORKS RESIDENCY, ŪKAIPO, THE SAUNA, THE POOL HAUS


For booking enquiries: conjah.connect@gmail.com

2025 SEASON



5-7 Piripi / June 2025
KIA MAU FESTIVAL
Te Whanganui-a-Tara / Wellington, Aotearoa / NZ