Unitec's Dance Showcase 2014: RERE TAKIWA

Coming this week ... Unitec's Dance Showcase 2014: RERE TAKIWA

Unitec Department of Performing and Screen Art's end-of-year Dance Showcase, RERE TAKIWA (to soar, fly), opens this Thursday, 13 November 2014 at the Raye Freedman Arts Centre in Epsom, Auckland, featuring works by leading New Zealand choreographers; Anna Bate, Claire O'Neil, Michael Parmenter, Paul Young and Sarah Foster-Sproull, plus new choreographic work by Unitec contemporary dance students. Don't miss the tertiary Contemporary Dance Event of the Year! Four nights only; from Thursday, 13 Nov to Sunday, 16 Nov @7.30pm.

"The title of the Unitec Dance choreographic showcase this year, Rere Takiwa, invokes a constellation of references that are not only appropriate for this diverse programme of dance works, but for the pedagogical approach of the Unitec Dance programme as a space for training in dance," writes Parmenter, who is also the artistic director for RERE TAKIWA. "With connotations of movement both towards the sky and the earth, but also the tensional space between, Rere Takiwa reminds us that dance only thrives in the unstable elemental realm between opposites, movement and stillness, inside/outside, self and other, home and beyond, and also that the space of dance, and the place (and responsibility) of learning is always shared; most importantly between teacher and student, between one artist and another."

This year's theme also acknowledges our location in Aotearoa/New Zealand. "Though Unitec Dance was founded on the basis of a European tradition of contemporary dance, this year Unitec introduced a very popular Haka Theatre elective directed by noted Maori dance innovator Kura Te Ua. In addition Unitec Dance has more and more made dance training available to young Maori and Pacific Island students, many of whom arrive with minimal training in contemporary dance, but who graduate to become valued contributors to companies such as Black Grace, Atamira and Okareka," Parmenter explains.

Show info

When: 13-16 November 2014, 7.30pm

Where: Ray Freedman Arts Centre, cnr Silver Road/Gillies Ave, Epsom Girls Grammar, Auckland

Cost: Adults $15, Concession (unwaged/seniors/Unitec staff) $10, Students/Unitec grads $5.

Tickets: iTICKET.co.nz (09) 361 1000. Discounts for bookings of 4+. Booking fees may apply.
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