Full Pacific Dance Festival 2019 Programme Goes on Sale
Pacific Dance Evokes with Virtuosity and
Elegance
The 2019 Pacific Dance Festival
Programme is on-sale!
Acclaimed and accomplished Pacific dance artists take the floor in the fourth rendition of thePacific Dance Festival, bringing a moving feast of entertaining and thought-provoking theatre, workshops, screenings, choreographic labs and more. The festival in June is bigger than ever and offers an opportunity for audiences to experience the varied and outstanding Pacific artistic spirit that Tāmaki Makaurau has to offer. Taking place in venues across Auckland, for the first time the festival will launch and premiere at the ASB Waterfront Theatre in central Auckland.
LEECHES [Friday 7th June, 2019] will headline the festival and its premiere at the ASB Waterfront Theatre will be a tour de force of Pacific contemporary dance. Featuring lead choreography byAloalii Tapu, the full-length work is created and performed by a collective of nine award-winning and internationally acclaimed dancers, featuring Braedyn Humphries, Connor ‘Ooshcon’ Masseurs, Jahra ’Rager’ Wasasala, Taniora Motutere, Sione Fataua, Elijah Kennar and Faith Schuster. The work is underpinned by Tapu's own 'Lofty Release', a movement practice that has a virtuosic and intricate movement language, while the story follows the modern experience of being Kiwi and Pasifika in a Eurocentric country.
The festival programme
continues with the following full-length showcases at
Mangere Arts Centre:
• Moana:
Tuesday 11 & Wednesday 12 June 2019, 7-8pm
The staple
short-works show returns with a diverse line-up featuring
‘Lalo’ by Ankaramy Fepuleai,
’Stolen Stories’ by FAF SWAG
artist Manoa Teaiwa, ‘Ave
Ese’ byTofifailauga Misa, Lyncia Muller
and the New Zealand School of
Dance.
• Triple-bill:
Friday 14 June 2019, 8-9pm
Debuts of three new works by
Uftia Sagapolutele, Laifa Ta’ala
and Aue
DanceCompany
• Maui:
Saturday 15 June 2019, 7-8pm
The award-winning
Nesian-hip-hop fusion dance by Hadleigh Pouesi
and Freshmans Crew returns for one
night only after a hugely popular season at
the Auckland Fringe Festival 2019
• Siva
Mai: Sunday 16 June, 5pm
Composer
Opeloge Ah Sam offers an
expression of modern Samoan identity through music and dance
• Kapu Akari: Saturday 22 June
2019, 8-9pm
Aue Dance Company premieres their latest
full-length piece, a fusion of their previous award-winning
works Opaque and Reka
The Artist
in Residence programme has been a feature on
the Pacific dance calendar for the past nine years. Now, as
part of the festival, it offers senior dance artists the
chance to work with the local communities and this year
Auckland is in for a treat, with Fijian based dance troupe
Rako Pasefika taking the 2019
residency. Fresh from Blues Fest Byron
Bay, creative associate Samuela
Konusi Taukave will be joined by company dancers
Emily Marie and Iane Tavo
for the residency which commences in May to coincide with
the New Zealand Rotuman Language Week and runs through the
June festival.
In addition to the public performance programme, the festival will also give dance enthusiasts the opportunity to participate on a variety of platforms. A series of free workshops and open rehearsals offer the public a taster of the brilliant talent in the Festival right throughout June, while another fabulous collection of original Pacific dance films will be on show at the Auckland Art Gallery on Sunday 23rd June. For creatives, the tenth year of the Pacific Dance Choreographic Lab the opportunity to develop an original dance work, this year led by choreographer Tupe Lualua of Porirua, who will workshop her new work with Auckland based female dancers. A range of dance and professional development talks will also take place in locations around Auckland.
The Pacific Dance Festival 2019 is now on-sale, with printed programmes available from festival venues.
PACIFIC DANCE
FESTIVAL 2019
Wednesday 5 - Sunday 23
June
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LEECHES
Friday 7 June, 8pm,
ASB Waterfront Theatre
Tickets available from ASB
Waterfront Theatre, book here
Waged adult -
$50
Unwaged adult - $28.00
Student, senior & industry
- $28.00
Concession 10+ tickets - $40.00
All other shows are held at Mangere Arts
Centre
Tickets available from Eventfinda
Waged adult -
$25.00
Unwaged adult - $20.00
Student, senior &
industry - $18.00
Children (3-14yrs) - $12.00
Imagery available via Dropbox
PERFORMANCE PROGRAMME:
Exhibition and Festival
Launch
Wednesday 5th June, 6pm; ASB
Waterfront Theatre, Auckland Theatre
Company
Festival launch followed by short
snippets of works from the festival programme, and a
performance by Tahiti Ia Ora. An industry invited event –
please contact marketing@pacificdance.co.nz if you
would like to attend
‘LEECHES’
Friday 7th
June, ASB Waterfront Theatre, 8pm; Auckland Theatre
Company
LEECHES follows nine award-winning and
internationally acclaimed dancers and their experiences
living the modern experience of being Kiwi and Pasifika;
their turmoil and triumphs of living in a Euro-Centric
country. The performers take on character roles of members
of society in order to reflect and challenge how the modern
Pasifika person is perceived by one another and New
Zealanders
Tickets available here
Moana
Tuesday
11 June, 7pm; Mangere Arts
Centre
Wednesday 12th June, 7pm; Mangere
Arts Centre
A collection of short works by
emerging dance artists Ankaramy Fepuleai with ‘Lalo’,
’Stolen Stories’ by FAF SWAG artist Manoa Teaiwa,
Tofifailauga Misa’s ‘Ave Ese’, Lyncia Muller and the
New Zealand School of Dance.
Tickets available here
Triple-bill
Friday 14th
June, 8pm; Mangere Arts Centre
Triple-bill
performance, featuring Vivian Aue’s 'Melville Place',
Laifa Ta’ala and Ufitia Sagapolutele’s latest original
dance work on various personal stories from
women.
Tickets available here
Māui
Saturday 15th June, 7pm; Mangere Arts
Centre
Hadleigh Pouesi & Freshmans Dance
Crew
Māui is a piece that uses dance,
music and physical theatre to tell the stories that we grew
up with and have travelled throughout the Pacific for
hundreds of years. Māui demonstrates strength,
growth, leadership and vulnerability and through movement
these stories are re-told in a way like never
before.
Tickets available here
Siva
Maia
Sunday 16th June, 5pm; Mangere Arts
Centre
Opeloge Ah Sam
A
performance that follows the expression of modern Samoan
Identity through music and dance -moulded and fused together
with styles such as Jazz, Ballet & Arabic dance.
Siva Mai
explores the dilemma many Pasifika people have who grow up
in multi-cultural environments and households where they
have bi-cultural identities and more.
Tickets available
here
RAKO PASEFIKA
Artist in Residence Showing
Monday 17
June, 5-6pm, Venue: Te Oro Arts
Centre
International group RAKO show the work
created with communities of Aotearoa.
FREE: All welcome,
for more information please contact by email: auckland@pacificdance.co.nz
Kapu Akari
Saturday 22
June, 8pm; Mangere Arts Centre
Aue Dance
Co. Choreographed by Vivian Hosking-Aue
KAPU
AKARI is a physical dance montage exploring the themes of
sacred traditional Pacific ceremonies, rituals, protocols
and events where a coconut cup and coconut husk is being
used. Also exploring the importance and significance of a
tanoa (kava bowl).
Tickets available here
WORKSHOPS AND FILM SCREENING:
First Friday co-hosted
by Pacific Dance NZ & Tautai
Friday 7th
June, 6-7pm, Venue TBC
A dance talk with artists
Julia Gray and Raymond Sagapolutele.
Producers Workshop (20 places
available)
Date to be Advised, The Trades
Hall, 147 Great North Road, Grey Lynn
Topics
covered in the workshop: producing shows, funding resources,
marketing and insights into the industry from arts
stakeholders.
FREE: To register for this workshop, please
contact by email: auckland@pacificdance.co.nz
Le Taupou Manaia
Wednesday
19th June, 7-9pm, Grey Lynn Community Centre
Le
Taupou Manaia presents a workshop on Traditional Samoan
Siva
FREE: To register for this workshop, please contact
by email: auckland@pacificdance.co.nz
Choreographic Lab
Showing
Friday 21 June, 8-9pm, Venue
TBC
Established Choreographer and Director of Le
Moana Dance Company Tupe Lualua shows her newly developed
work E Au le Ina’ilau A Tama’ita’i a proverb in Samoan
for female legacy of achievement.
FREE: Register to view
this showing, please contact by email: auckland@pacificdance.co.nz
Tahiti Ia Ora
Workshop 1
Saturday 15th June, 4-6pm; Grey Lynn Community Centre, Grey
Lynn
Workshop 2 Saturday 22nd June,
2-4pm; Te Oro Arts Centre, Glen Innes
Tahiti Ia
Ora presents a workshop of Tahitian drum and dance.
FREE:
To register for this workshop, please contact by email: auckland@pacificdance.co.nz
Pacific Dance On Screen – film
screening
Sunday 23rd June, 3pm;
Auckland Art Gallery
Pacific Dance New Zealand
and the Auckland Art Gallery present a public screening of
selected Pacific Dance short films and footage.
FREE: To
register for this screening, please contact by email: auckland@pacificdance.co.nz
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