TAKIRUA - TWO TOGETHER

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MāRAMA: Songs of Rain
by Te Tumu

He pātai tāku
by Natasha van Etten

Fine artists Ta’i Paitai (Tumutevarovaro, A'uA'u, Moata'a) and Natasha van Etten (Ngāi te Rangi, Ngāi Tukairangi) come together to weave day into night, light into dark, the dawn and dusk, from Te Kore to Te Ao Mārama, the known and unknown in a double bill of new dance performance.

NOTE: This is a double bill and one ticket will get entry into both performances.

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MāRAMA: Songs of Rain
by Te Tumu

MāRAMA: Songs of Rain is a new interdisciplinary work of curated performer-audience interactions.

MāRAMA: Songs of Rain
by Te Tumu

MāRAMA frames a journey through the practise of raranga. 

Presented in the style of a polyphonic structure, melodies imbue connections across distance in time and across space.

There is the connection of our unborn to ‘enua; our history to pe’e; and our Moana to ‘ui tupuna. The list is endless, and as a weaver, the performer engages in a series of connections through performance, light, sound, imagery and dance. 

Combined, the ‘Songs of Rain’ are the constant reminders that we’ve forgotten to listen to.

Created by Ta’i Paitai for Te Tumu. Te Tumu is a new entity by and for Arts Moana

This work acknowledges Ngāti Whātua as mana whenua for where this work is presented, and all tangata whenua across Aotearoa.

Glossary

MāRAMA: 1. Light; 2. Understand; 3. Clear (of vision); 4. Enlighten

Raranga: Weave, weaving

Moana: 1. Ocean; 2. Deep Blue

Pe’e: Chant

‘Enua: Land

Te Tumu: the foundation, the source, the origin

‘Ui Tupuna: ancestors

Date: Weds, 15 February
Time: 8.30PM
Location: Main Stage, Basement Theatre
Price: $18 - $39

NOTE: This is a double bill and one ticket will get entry into both performances.

He Pātai Tāku
by Natasha van Etten

Locked in a never-ending embrace with darkness, a dark conversational movement exchange occurs; not just to those present, but also to those in the dark, those unknowing and barely there.

He Pātai Tāku takes us on a virtuosic and visceral pathway, unseen but ever present - into an innate state of connection, accessed through Te Kore. Enter a darkness that de-solidifies identities and bodies. Imagine a dark plane that allows us to dissolve into deep space, barely there. Create a dark unknowing and share it across time, space and a genealogical continuum. Through the dark we experience the potential outside of ourselves.  Encounter a new mode of living, inviting all that could emerge from the void: filled to the brim with fluidity, possibility, mystery, sweaty bodies and deep base.

Date: Weds, 15 February
Time: 8.30PM
Location: Main Stage, Basement Theatre
Price: $18 - $39

NOTE: This is a double bill and one ticket will get entry into both performances.