Dry Spell, a new dance production that teeters between "hallucination and reality", is making its way to Whanganui this month.
It is being performed by Footnote New Zealand Dance, with choreography from Rose Philpott.
"The mind can play tricks on us, especially when we are faced with finality," Philpott said.
Dry Spell was a portal into the privacy of the inner self and also to some dark corners of the universe, she added.
"Combining physical theatre, dance, textile and spatial design, it is a peephole through which we see ourselves under the immense pressure of collapse and how the human spirit might resist."