Going for Baroque performed to Handel's Water Music. Living on the edge of Wellington's beautiful harbour, the Crows have taken images from their immediate surroundings and transformed them into a series of dances. You may catch the odd glimpse of a traditional dance step, but mostly it is a witty, irreverant interpretation of Handel's famous score by sprightly dancers of a certain age. In the hands of guest percussionist Andreas Lepper, water coolers and running taps are also given a starring role.

Leaving Home is a narrative dance that explores the pain, effort and ultimately the freedom of emigration. It is Jan Bolwell’s tribute to her great, great, great grandmother Jane Broadfoot, who left Scotland as a young bride in 1843.

Crows Feet: 10 years old in 2009

In 1999 director Jan Bolwell, at the age of 48, was recovering from two bouts of breast cancer. She began dancing again to aid her recovery. A group of women about Jan's age saw Gaylene Preston’s film about breast cancer Titless Wonders in which Jan dances Off My Chest. They approached Jan and said, ‘We want to dance like that. Will you teach us?’ That’s how Crows Feet Dance Collective was born.