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Celebrated Māori performance company Hawaiki TŪ present their award-winning work Taurite. Firmly rooted within a Te Ao Māori worldview, Taurite is a large-scale haka dance theatre performance that is centred around the art of balance and duality.



Celebrated Māori performance company Hawaiki TŪ present their award-winning work Taurite. Firmly rooted within a Te Ao Māori worldview, Taurite is a large-scale haka dance theatre performance that is centred around the art of balance and duality.


With twenty kaihaka (performers), this powerful performance is a physical interpretation that fuses expressions of kapa haka, dance, intertwined with ngā taonga tuku iho (treasures of traditional heritage steeped in ancestral roots).


Taurite acknowledges the regeneration of customary practices and the current shift towards restoring mana māuri motuhake.


Taurite is a collaboration between artistic director Kura Te Ua and senior creatives from the film, theatre, dance and haka sectors. This innovative and breathtaking performance is designed for the whole whānau.


Taurite was commissioned by Auckland Live for the 2020 Fringe Town programme and is supported by Creative New Zealand, Q Theatre and TAPAC.


He whakaaturanga toi whakaari tēnei e whakaari ana i te moenga o ngā kawa tawhito, ki ngā momo mahi whakaari o āianei rangi. Ko te kapa haka tēnā, ko ngā mahi a Hine Rēhia tēnā, ko te ao toi whakaari Pākehā hoki tēnā, kua whakakotahihia mai, hei whakaaturanga whakamāuru i te tinana, i te hinengaro, i te wairua. Hei whakaari whakaoho ihirangaranga, kia tau ai te mauri, kia mauri tau, otirā, kia Taurite.


Koina te ingoa o tēnei whakaaturanga, ko Taurite, nā te ohu nei nā Hawaiki Tū i waihanga. Ko ngā kaiwhakaari, he taniwha hiku roa i ō rātou nā ao. Tirohia te tuhinga Pākehā, kei reira katoa ngā kaiwhakaari e rārangi mai ana. Mō te whānau katoa tēnei whakaaturanga, nō reira nau mai piki mai, haere mai rā.


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MARCUS REIHANA



Marcus is a loyal member of Hawaiki TU for 10 years, with extensive training at the Hawaiki TU academy and a valued performer within a number of Hawaiki TU productions. Maori performing arts has led him to teach as a kaiako for 3 years at Hoani Waititi where he draws on his lifetime experience as a Kaihaka within Te roopu kapa haka o Ngā Tumanako and deep passion for te ao māori me ona tikanga. With a bachelor's in Māori performing arts and a post-graduate in teaching Marcus is committed to contributing to the arts industry and education to inspire the next generation to continue forging forward with the taonga that lie in Māori performing arts.



KIWA



Kiwa is a graduate from Whitireia Community polytechnic in Wellington (2012-2014). Having only chosen to pursue the arts after leaving high school level in Wellington, Kiwa immediately was sent on one of the most internationally recognised festivals in the world in Drummondville (Canada) in his first year at Whitireia. Following this, he has participated in an international tour every year leading up to 2016 travelling to France, Taiwan, Australia and Macau. Once graduated, he spent time working for multiple performance organisations including Te Pitowhenua, black grace Manu Collective and now with Hawaiki Tu. His involvement with Hawaiki Tu began in 2015 as part of the production “Te Manawa” and has been an active member of Hawaiki Tu ever since. Musically trained and pitch perfect, Kiwa enjoys using his skills to provide a newer perspective on Haka Theatre both as an avid Contemporary dancer, Cook island dancer, Siva Samoa practitioner and Maori performer.



rickylee russell



Ngāti Raukawa, Ngāti Mutunga, Ngāti Kahungunu Rickylee is best known for her role as Chardonnay in BOY, directed by Taika Waiti as well as roles in WAKA WARRIORS, THIS IS PIKI and more recently VEGAS and BEYOND THE VEIL. Rickylee came from a world of ballet, tap, jazz and kapa haka which naturally led her to join HAWAIKI TŪ HAKA-THEATRE COMPANY in 2016 . With an established background in theatre with TE REHIA and AUCKLAND THEATRE COMPANIES Rickylee continued to shared her love for the arts throughout Canada performing and facilitating cultural workshops at SĀKIHIWĒ, EDGE OF THE WORLD FESTIVAL and many others. In late 2018, Rickylee began channelling her experience back to screen and behind the scenes, leading her to join Sweetshop & Green as a Development Assistant in 2019. Employed by Sweetshop & Green full-time, Rickylee acted as the Associate Producer on TAUMANU and UNTOLD TALES OF TŪTEREMOANA funded by NZOA and TMP from development through to delivery. She assisted with casting and oversaw cultural aspects on BIRDS EYE VIEW, TVNZ’s series for children. Rickylee will continue to work with Taratoa Stappard to develop his feature script MĀRAMA, which was selected for the Black List New Zealand Project. She is continuing to work with Cian White with her feature film script TE PUHI, recently selected for their second round of Early Development Funding from NZFC alongside many other projects currently on the Sweetshop & Green slate. Rickylee is passionate about sharing Māori and other First Nations stories through the arts, film and television, whilst ensuring the appropriate voices are at the table when it comes to safeguarding culture. Rickylee believes in order to continue to grow and create meaningful works genuine partnerships that equally empower one another are imperative.





EDDIE ELLIOT



NGĀTI MANIAPOTO

Eddie Elliott is from Aotearoa/New Zealand. A 2013 Performing and Screen Arts graduate of Unitec, Eddie is a dancer and choreographer whose career has led him all around the world. Eddie has been nominated for numerous awards throughout his career including the iconic Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative and the 2014 I Am Auckland Awards, which won him the Youth Active Award. In 2015, James Cook High School named a recognition award for students in his honour, the Eddie Elliott Award for Outstanding Contribution to Dance. Eddie has worked with leading arts companies in New Zealand including Atamira Dance Company, Black Grace, Okareka Dance Company, Auckland Theatre Company, Douglas Wright and The New Zealand Dance Company. In 2017, Eddie was awarded the Eileen May Norris scholarship and Toi Tipu Toi Rea grant for the associate artist programme. This allowed him to build an extraordinary Indigenous relationship with Red Sky Performance in Canada where he has gone on to facilitate, dance, teach and choreograph throughout the traditional territory of many nations across Turtle Island (North America). He is currently now in his fourth year as an associate artist with the company. Eddie’s reputation has been built on the success of cultural, highly accessible and relevant productions he has been a part of such as the opening of the 150th Canada Day celebrations and the opening of the 2017 World Masters. Eddie was also part of the opening Jacobs Pillow Dance Festival’s inaugural The Land on Which We Dance programme – his second time performing at the iconic American festival. Eddie has choreographed and collaborated on works that have been recognised as profoundly moving and raw. His choreographic career includes: I’ll Stand Outside (2012), with performances in the Great Lakes, Ontario, the South Island of New Zealand and Rarotonga; Kia Tau (2019) with performances in Macau; and two works for Unitec ‘s graduation season - Kei konei au (2013) and In-tuition (2018). His work In-tuition then went on to tour New Zealand and Canada. Eddie was awarded the Tup Lung Choreographic award which enabled him to premiere his first full length work at Auckland Arts Festival 2022 called 'Waiwhakaata-Reflections in the water, followed by his world premiere of ‘Uku - Behind the canvas’ as part of the New Zealand Dance Company’s double bill programming 'Nightlight’. After retuning from the Nelson Arts Festival 2022 working under the direction of Charles Koroneho in the performance ‘Ko Te Ākau, Eddie is currently choreographing on the Unitec 2022 end of year performance opening. It is with excitement that Eddie is utilising what he has gathered and experienced from around the world to re-imagine and prosper for the up and coming show ’Taurite'.





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