Eve Gordon (born 16 March 1982) is a New Zealand actress and performer and producer of physical and aerial theatre.
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Background
Gordon graduated with a Bachelor of Performing and Screen Arts from UNITEC in Auckland in 2002.
Career
Her television appearances include Mercy Peak, Power Rangers and Shortland Street, but she is best known as Stacey, a cycle courier and reincarnated Norse goddess Fulla in the fantasy series The Almighty Johnsons.
During the 2000s, Gordon collaborated with Sam Hamilton in live performances with The Parasitic Fantasy Band in the New Zealand International Film Festival, public galleries, and the New Zealand Film Archive. The work included multi-screen film projectors, lighting effects, gongs, story-telling and occasionally some circus or physical theatre performance.
Gordon co-founded circus theatre company The Dust Palace with Mike Edward in 2009, after working with a group of friends on a show at Auckland's first Fringe Festival. The Dust Palace has an international profile and has toured Canada. Gordon works mainly as artistic director and aerial performer, but also variously in costume, sound and lighting design.
For her performance in Midnight, a collaboration between the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra and The Dust Palace in 2017, Gordon learned the aerial performance art cloud swing (corde volante). She said about this experience:When you get the moves right, it's the closest thing to flying there is. That is pure happiness for me – flying through the air – it's also terrifying, but what's life about if you're not a little scared?
Personal life
She was raised in Rotorua.
In 2013, she married Mike Edward who she met at drama school.