{"id":70849,"date":"2026-08-25T15:48:59","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T11:48:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=70849"},"modified":"2026-09-11T20:59:21","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T16:59:21","slug":"the-butterfly-who-flew-into-the-rave","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/event\/the-butterfly-who-flew-into-the-rave\/","title":{"rendered":"The Butterfly Who Flew Into The Rave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Award-winning contemporary dance from Aotearoa\/New Zealand, one of the hits of Edinburgh 2025. Created by Oli Mathiesen with Lucy Lynch and Sharvon Mortimer and inspired by the energy and emotion of rave culture, it&#8217;s a spectacle of stamina, sweat, and sheer willpower performed to a pulsating soundtrack of techno, house and more by Detroit DJ Suburban Knight\u2019s album Nocturbulous Behaviour.<\/p>\n<p>Oli Mathiesen has described it as &#8220;an endurance-based dance work&#8221; that &#8220;embraces the movement vocabulary of techno and rave culture, creating a contemporary nightclub experience expressed through three bodies &#8230; We like to think of it as a three-day rave condensed into 60 minutes of relentless, seamless movement, perfectly synced to every beat &#8230; The piece taps into that primal need to keep going, keep pushing, and chase more \u2013 no matter the cost&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>It runs Thursday to Saturday, 10 to 12 September. Each performance will be followed by a short dance party, with audiences invited to stay for DJ sets by Dubai\u2019s very cool Analog Room.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">Award-winning contemporary dance from Aotearoa\/New Zealand, one of the hits of Edinburgh 2025. Created by Oli Mathiesen with Lucy Lynch and Sharvon Mortimer and inspired by the energy and emotion of rave culture, it&#8217;s a spectacle of stamina, sweat, and <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/event\/the-butterfly-who-flew-into-the-rave\/\" title=\"The Butterfly Who Flew Into The Rave\"> [&#8230; more]<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":70850,"template":"","meta":{"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[57],"class_list":["post-70849","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","tribe_events_cat-dance","cat_dance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/70849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/70849\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70849"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=70849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}