Taurite - (2nd Development)
Presented by Hawaiku TŪ and Auckland Live
Great Hall, Auckland Town Hall
16th September 2020
Selling out this year’s Auckland Live Fringe Town and winner of ‘Pick of the Fringe’, ‘Best Dance’ and the ‘Auckland Arts Festival ‘Best of Fringe Award’, Haka Theatre company, Hawaiki TŪ’s powerful, Māori dance work, Taurite returns to the Auckland Town Hall for two limited performances.
Embodying the pursuit of balance and duality, Hawaiki TU’s second development of Taurite is a vital and ritualistic performative experience invoking ancestral roots in indigenous physical expressions of Kapa Haka and Māori Dance.
Vibrating with the call for us to have balance in our world, Taurite is anchored in Te Ao Māori practices, values and world views. Enhanced by the acoustics of the Great Auckland Town Hall, Tāmaki Makaurau Kapa Haka Group ‘Te Manu Huia’ express exquisite harmonies as the art forms of Kapa Haka and Māori Dance are blended to transcend worlds.
Taurite translated as ‘The pursuit of Balance’ was described as a hidden gem in this year’s Auckland Fringe festival. Developed with the support of Auckland Live.
TAURITE - (1st Development)
Auckland Fringe Festival
Fri 28th Feb - Sun 01st Mar, 2020
Hawaiki TŪ return with a powerful, new, in-development Māori dance work embodying the virtue of balance and duality. This vital and ritualistic experience invokes its ancestral roots in an indigenous physical expression of the contemporary journey to reclamation.
PŪMANAWA
In partnership with The Auckland Performing Arts Centre and The Auckland Fringe Festival Hawaiki TŪ is glad to present: PŪMANAWA - A brand-new dance work by Hawaiki TŪ with its complex meanings including ‘intuitive waters’ seeks to express forms of release, flow and redemption through a movement language that shifts between the elements of kapa haka and contemporary Maori dance.
Hawaiki TŪ in collaboration with extraordinary dancer Nancy Wijohn, along with the acclaimed Arahi Easton and Kiwa Andrews who all share the same passion to inspire people through the timeless forms of haka and dance.
Photo Credit: Carolyn Sylvester, Graphic Designer: Nikau Hindin, Kaupapa & Healing mentor: Ruatau Perez
Performances: Thursday 01st March, 7pm, Friday 02nd March, 7pm & Saturday 03rd March, 7pm
Tickets available: tapac.org.nz/events
Hawaiki TŪ in collaboration with extraordinary dancer Nancy Wijohn, along with the acclaimed Arahi Easton and Kiwa Andrews who all share the same passion to inspire people through the timeless forms of haka and dance.
Photo Credit: Carolyn Sylvester, Graphic Designer: Nikau Hindin, Kaupapa & Healing mentor: Ruatau Perez
Performances: Thursday 01st March, 7pm, Friday 02nd March, 7pm & Saturday 03rd March, 7pm
Tickets available: tapac.org.nz/events
TE MANAWA 2017
This season Hawaiki TŪ brings a new version of their renowned show Te Manawa which tells the love story of Koru and Te Mauri, two young lovers from opposing iwi, bound together by a negotiated truce.
Told through the medium of Haka Theatre which combines elements of Kapa Haka: song, rakau, poi, haka and waiata a ringa. As well as dance, the conventions of theatre and humour come into play to produce a unique and authentic Māori performance. This bilingual production is an action-packed celebration of aroha in the face of seemingly insurmountable obstacles and conflict. Through the telling of this story, renowned haka theatre company Hawaiki TŪ aims to inspire people to be proud of who they are and where they come from. Te Manawa is set during the season of Matariki (Māori New Year) and several symbolic themes are woven into the story - navigation, cultivation, celebration and the life cycle. Join Hawaiki TŪ to honour the significance of Matariki, and the many ways it is celebrated in Aotearoa.
Hawaiki TŪ are grateful for the gracious support of: Creative New Zealand, The Auckland Theatre Company, Te Wananga o Aotearoa and the Auckland Tourism,Events and Economic Development (ATEED)
Performances: Saturday 10th June - 1pm & 7pm & Sunday 11th June - 4pm
Tickets Available: www.atc.co.nz
Told through the medium of Haka Theatre which combines elements of Kapa Haka: song, rakau, poi, haka and waiata a ringa. As well as dance, the conventions of theatre and humour come into play to produce a unique and authentic Māori performance. This bilingual production is an action-packed celebration of aroha in the face of seemingly insurmountable obstacles and conflict. Through the telling of this story, renowned haka theatre company Hawaiki TŪ aims to inspire people to be proud of who they are and where they come from. Te Manawa is set during the season of Matariki (Māori New Year) and several symbolic themes are woven into the story - navigation, cultivation, celebration and the life cycle. Join Hawaiki TŪ to honour the significance of Matariki, and the many ways it is celebrated in Aotearoa.
Hawaiki TŪ are grateful for the gracious support of: Creative New Zealand, The Auckland Theatre Company, Te Wananga o Aotearoa and the Auckland Tourism,Events and Economic Development (ATEED)
Performances: Saturday 10th June - 1pm & 7pm & Sunday 11th June - 4pm
Tickets Available: www.atc.co.nz
TAKETAKE 2016
Hawaiki TŪ - Haka Theatre's annual indigenous short works festival features a new work by the company - 'He Kakano' and special matinee performances by: The Haka Theatre Academy
He kākano ahau i ruia mai i Rangiātea - I am a seed which was sewn in the heavens of Rangiatea. In the significance of whakapapa and birthright, Hawaiki TŪ honor their inter-generational connections through the form of Haka Theatre.
He onamata te tuarongo, he anamata te whatitoka, he atua te tāhūhū, heoi anö te tangata he pou whakairo, he tukutuku whakairi körero. Na: Ranginui Rikirangi-Thomas.
Performances:
Tue 11th Oct, 7pm - (Hawaiki TŪ Company)
Wed 12th Oct. 1pm Matinee, koha (Haka Theatre Academy)
Wed 12th Oct, 7pm - (Hawaiki TŪ Company)
Thu 13th Oct, 1pm Matinee, koha (Haka Theatre Academy)
Thu 13th Oct, 7pm (Hawaiki TŪ Company)
Tickets available: http://www.tapac.org.nz/events-taketake_2016-153
He kākano ahau i ruia mai i Rangiātea - I am a seed which was sewn in the heavens of Rangiatea. In the significance of whakapapa and birthright, Hawaiki TŪ honor their inter-generational connections through the form of Haka Theatre.
He onamata te tuarongo, he anamata te whatitoka, he atua te tāhūhū, heoi anö te tangata he pou whakairo, he tukutuku whakairi körero. Na: Ranginui Rikirangi-Thomas.
Performances:
Tue 11th Oct, 7pm - (Hawaiki TŪ Company)
Wed 12th Oct. 1pm Matinee, koha (Haka Theatre Academy)
Wed 12th Oct, 7pm - (Hawaiki TŪ Company)
Thu 13th Oct, 1pm Matinee, koha (Haka Theatre Academy)
Thu 13th Oct, 7pm (Hawaiki TŪ Company)
Tickets available: http://www.tapac.org.nz/events-taketake_2016-153
TE MANAWA TOUR 2016
Hawaiki TŪ's annual Matariki Haka Theatre Production combines kapa haka, Māori Movement, Contemporary theatre, Storytelling and Music into a unique Māori performance.
Te Manawa has become the single most popular work in Hawaiki TU’s repertoire, attracting sell-out audiences whenever it is performed. This season will be celebrated with a Tour to Tāmaki Makaurau, Waikato, Tauranga and Rotorua.
TOUR DATES:
'TE POU THEATRE' - Auckland
WHEN: Wednesday 29th June - Friday 01st July
WHERE: Te Pou Theatre, New Lynn, Auckland
TIME: 7-8pm
TICKETS - Follow the link to secure tickets: https://www.iticket.co.nz/events/2016/jun/hawaiki-tu
Te Manawa has become the single most popular work in Hawaiki TU’s repertoire, attracting sell-out audiences whenever it is performed. This season will be celebrated with a Tour to Tāmaki Makaurau, Waikato, Tauranga and Rotorua.
TOUR DATES:
'TE POU THEATRE' - Auckland
WHEN: Wednesday 29th June - Friday 01st July
WHERE: Te Pou Theatre, New Lynn, Auckland
TIME: 7-8pm
TICKETS - Follow the link to secure tickets: https://www.iticket.co.nz/events/2016/jun/hawaiki-tu
TE MANAWA 2015
Hawaiki TŪ's annual Matariki Haka Theatre Production combines kapa haka, Māori Movement, Contemporary theatre, Storytelling and Music into a unique Māori performance.
This year Hawaiki TŪ performed Te Manawa as part of the Auckland Council Matariki Festival. With a completely sold out season we were fortunate for the overwhelming support throughout Aotearoa and am looking forward to a National tour in 2016.
Dates: Friday 17th July - Saturday 19th July 2015
Hawaiki TŪ's annual Matariki Haka Theatre Production combines kapa haka, Māori Movement, Contemporary theatre, Storytelling and Music into a unique Māori performance.
This year Hawaiki TŪ performed Te Manawa as part of the Auckland Council Matariki Festival. With a completely sold out season we were fortunate for the overwhelming support throughout Aotearoa and am looking forward to a National tour in 2016.
Dates: Friday 17th July - Saturday 19th July 2015
KURAWAKA 2014
‘Kurawaka’ is known in Māori mythology as the sacred site where mankind was fashioned from kokowai, the red soil that is prevalent in the region. The creation story involves Tāne - the pro creator of mankind and of all the creatures of the forest - who creates the first woman, Hineahuone. It draws on the parallel concerns of restoring the earth’s environment and strengthening mankind’s spiritual connection to the land.
Dates: Thursday 26th March 2015
‘Kurawaka’ is known in Māori mythology as the sacred site where mankind was fashioned from kokowai, the red soil that is prevalent in the region. The creation story involves Tāne - the pro creator of mankind and of all the creatures of the forest - who creates the first woman, Hineahuone. It draws on the parallel concerns of restoring the earth’s environment and strengthening mankind’s spiritual connection to the land.
Dates: Thursday 26th March 2015
