Defiant dance, big bold beats and a story of love. The dynamic and heady world of Hana and Ihia. Will the promise the young lovers made to each other withstand the temptations of the modern world?
AN ALL-FEMALE WORK BY OKAREKA DANCE COMPANY THAT DRAWS STRENGTH FROM TRADITIONAL MĀORI CULTURE TO ILLUSTRATE A TAPESTRY OF DANCE, THEATRE AND FILM. Taiaroa Royal, Malia Johnston and Taane Mete come together to create a powerful collage of imagery and movement that transcends time and space. Death, life, land and creature inspires the 70min performance …
The Youth Performance Trust (YPT) announces Matariki Rhythmz. Coinciding with the month of Matariki Rising and part of the Auckland Matariki Festival. Matariki Rhythmz offers high school students in the Auckland area a unique opportunity to learn, create and express their urban cultural identity through music and dance. Matariki Rhythmz is a music and dance …
Photographs: Neil Ieremia and Bernie Ng World Premiere Changes 變 An Asia Pacific first / Death, diversity and dance / Creativity that spans the seas / Co-produced by Auckland Arts Festival and Black Grace Another letter from Earth Choreographed by Neil Ieremia Death – the bringer of change, liberator from pain and suffering, a keeper …
Written and Directed by Tupe Lualua (Savaia, Lefaga, Leusoali’i Luatuanu’u) Choreographed by Andy Faiaoga (Manono Tai, Luatuanu’u, Savaia, Lefaga) “I was four years old when it came, my Father had to instruct the young men of the village who dug the mass graves; there was also a young woman in the village who died while …