Limbs rises from ashes

Press, 11 September 1985, Page 38

Limbs rises from ashes

PA Auckland The Limbs Dance Company says it may eventually move back into its studio which was damaged by fire on Sunday. Also, its planned national tour will still go ahead. A special lino dance floor

which was destroyed might have protected the original floor sufficiently for the studio to be rebuilt, said the company’s manager, Ms Sue Paterson. “I am sitting in a blackened office using a blackened phone, but it feels good to know we might be able to come back and use this studio in a few months,” she said. Limbs hopes to employ extra people to replace more than 60 costumes destroyed in the blaze. In true theatrical tradition, Limbs will go ahead with its national tour in less than a fortnight, in spite of losing all its lighting gear in the fire. The company’s assistant manager, Ms Irene Vander-

laan, was in Wellington when the fire gutted the group’s Auckland studio. Fortunately she had most of the tour records with her, she said. “The tour will go on. It will cost a lot more to do though, because we have to replace so much.”