TAKETAKE ‘15

TAKETAKE ‘15

Thursday 29 October - 7:30pm

Friday 30 October - 1pm & 7:30pm

Saturday 31st October – 2pm Wananga: Forum Discussion; & 7:30pm

Auckland Performing Arts Centre TAPAC

100 Motions Road, Western Springs

Bookings: http://www.tapac.org.nz/events

Fresh from their recent season at Christchurch’s Body Festival earlier this month, Auckland dance company Hawaiki TU are cresting a wave of interest in their own distinctive brand of Haka Theatre in which they aim to tell uniquely Māori stories in a contemporary fashion using the kapa haka arts of karakia, waiata, taonga puoro, traditional movement and mau rakau. Their forthcoming TAKETAKE ’15 season will showcase excerpts from the Company’s new and existing repertoire including Kurawaka, their brand new work in development, centred on the Māori creation story.

“Taking this work to Ōtautahi (Christchurch) had a profound effect on us all” say Co-Artistic Director Kura Te Ua. “We had developed a new section of Kurawaka especially for the season that referenced Papatuanuku, Ruaumoko and the earthquakes that continue to shake the city. We wanted to perform it for the people of Ōtautahi who had actually suffered in this way and it was a very humbling experience, as well as being a great privilege”, she says.

Te Ua who established the Company in 2012 with Beez Ngarino Watt, says: “it is our hope that by sharing short works from all our repertoire we can demonstrate our unique vision to Aucklanders: which is to develop and share new and authentic Māori performance experiences that reflect the ihi and spirit of Aotearoa, indigeneity and inspired innovation”. To this end, the Company will be participating in a Wananga – an open forum discussion at 2pm on Saturday 31 October entitled: Watching TAKETAKE – What do you see?

Certainly the people of Ōtautahi relished their experience of Hawaiki TU with one reviewer writing:

“Hawaiki TU as a company have incredible integrity, passion and dedication to every aspect of their practice and their strengths absolutely lie in the traditional forms. The strength of karakia, haka, waiata, taonga puoro and mau raukau are undeniable. Kurawaka is moving, intrinsically aesthetically appealing, and in many ways, for any non-Maori speaker in the audience, visually and theatrically abstract”.

http://www.theatreview.org.nz/reviews/review.php?id=8533

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