Captured Movement
With Atamira Dance Company and Rachael Burke
With Atamira Dance Company and Rachael Burke
Sat 25 May 2024 | 10am-1pm
Corban Estate Arts Centre
ADULTS: 16+
$75.00, all materials supplied
Corban Estate Arts Centre
ADULTS: 16+
$75.00, all materials supplied
This unique life drawing workshop offers participants a rare opportunity to capture the essence of dance, by attending a rehearsal by Atamira Dance Company for one of their upcoming performances.
Observe, study and translate to paper the graceful shapes and physical expression of a professional dance company as their various states of motion serve as inspiration for our artistic creations.
Guided by drawing tutor Rachael Burke, we’ll explore the subtlety of stillness; the tranquillity of slow meditative movement; the dynamics of duets and relationships; and the energy of fast-paced phrases, providing participants a truly rich and inspiring drawing experience.
This collaborative workshop will provide both parties with an energetic exchange, creating community engagement with Atamira’s creative process and a dynamic synergy between movement and art.
The two-hour drawing workshop will be followed by a chance to wind down together over shared kai after the dance rehearsal.
Observe, study and translate to paper the graceful shapes and physical expression of a professional dance company as their various states of motion serve as inspiration for our artistic creations.
Guided by drawing tutor Rachael Burke, we’ll explore the subtlety of stillness; the tranquillity of slow meditative movement; the dynamics of duets and relationships; and the energy of fast-paced phrases, providing participants a truly rich and inspiring drawing experience.
This collaborative workshop will provide both parties with an energetic exchange, creating community engagement with Atamira’s creative process and a dynamic synergy between movement and art.
The two-hour drawing workshop will be followed by a chance to wind down together over shared kai after the dance rehearsal.
https://ceac.org.nz/workshops/art-workshop/captured-movement
Auckland Writers Festival
Saturday 18th May | 2:15pm-2:45pm
Aotea Centre - 5th Floor, Activities Galore
Free Event
Aotea Centre - 5th Floor, Activities Galore
Free Event
Join dancers Abbie Rogers and Madi Tumataroa from Atamira Dance Company and move your way through Gavin Bishop’s best-selling and award-winning book, ATUA: Māori Gods and Heroes. You will transform into Atua and experience storytelling through dance and music to bring this magical book to life.
https://www.writersfestival.co.nz/programmes/event/dance-like-the-atua/1493933/
MAR 22, 2024
Kua hinga he totara i te wao nui a Tane.
Moe mai e Tipene Bradshaw i roto te korowai aroha a o Tūpuna.
Today is the saddest day for our dance whanau as we prepare to farewell this special man who pioneered the art form of Māori contemporary dance or as Steve would say, Continuum Māori Dance. For him at the heart was the acknowledgment of whakapapa and ancestral past within a changing world.
He was many things to many people but our hearts go out to his loved ones - his children and mokopuna in whom his beauty will shine forever
Arohanui e hoa
Na Marama and Atamira xxx
Moe mai e Tipene Bradshaw i roto te korowai aroha a o Tūpuna.
Today is the saddest day for our dance whanau as we prepare to farewell this special man who pioneered the art form of Māori contemporary dance or as Steve would say, Continuum Māori Dance. For him at the heart was the acknowledgment of whakapapa and ancestral past within a changing world.
He was many things to many people but our hearts go out to his loved ones - his children and mokopuna in whom his beauty will shine forever
Arohanui e hoa
Na Marama and Atamira xxx
NEW DOUBLE BILL COMING JULY 2024
Choreographed by Bianca Hyslop and Eddie Elliott
Choreographed by Bianca Hyslop and Eddie Elliott
During our first development in Nov-Dec 2023, Bianca and Eddie worked with 6 dancers; Abbie Rogers, Toalei Roycroft, Caleb Heke, Madi Tumataroa, Oli Mathiesen and Tai Taranui Hemana.
These explorations revealed exciting and innovative new ideas which will be brought to fruition over 8 weeks in June-July 2024, leading to the world premiere on July 25 at Q Theatre in Tāmaki Makaurau, followed by a short regional tour.
SAVE THE DATE WHĀNAU!
These explorations revealed exciting and innovative new ideas which will be brought to fruition over 8 weeks in June-July 2024, leading to the world premiere on July 25 at Q Theatre in Tāmaki Makaurau, followed by a short regional tour.
SAVE THE DATE WHĀNAU!
Linked creatively through a shared design team, Bianca's work 'HE ATUA, HE TŪPUNA, HE TANGATA’ is an interdisciplinary work where the performers become ancestors and the dance becomes the hopes and dreams of the future.
Eddie's work REMAIN speaks to the continuity, preservation, and vitality of whakapapa (ancestral heritage) and tikanga (cultural practices) reflecting a deep respect for the past, a commitment to the present, and a vision for the future.
Images captured by Kelly Nash
THREE NEW DANCE FILMS
Directed by Kelly Nash
Directed by Kelly Nash
More info on the film’s premiere to come 👀
COLLABORATORS
Threading Frames
Joshua Faleatua
Tyler Carney-Faleatua
Elekis Poblete Teirney
Māhia Jermaine Dean aka Eyes of Kaos
Deb Frame
Raven Afoa-Purcell
PERFORMERS
Nancy Wijohn
Abbie Rogers
Toalei Roycroft
Presley Ziogas
Madi Tumataroa
Caleb Heke
Oli Mathiesen
Tai Taranui Hemana
COLLABORATORS
Threading Frames
Joshua Faleatua
Tyler Carney-Faleatua
Elekis Poblete Teirney
Māhia Jermaine Dean aka Eyes of Kaos
Deb Frame
Raven Afoa-Purcell
PERFORMERS
Nancy Wijohn
Abbie Rogers
Toalei Roycroft
Presley Ziogas
Madi Tumataroa
Caleb Heke
Oli Mathiesen
Tai Taranui Hemana
Images captured by Andi Crown and Jinki Cambronero
INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATION
Karul Projects
Karul Projects
Next week we are thrilled to have Thomas E.S. Kelly from Karul Projects (Australia) in the studio for a cross cultural company collaboration.
DANCE ARTISTS
Olivia Adams
Glory Tuohy-Daniell
Madi Tumataroa
Caleb Heke
Tai Taranui Hemana
Oli Mathiesen
DANCE ARTISTS
Olivia Adams
Glory Tuohy-Daniell
Madi Tumataroa
Caleb Heke
Tai Taranui Hemana
Oli Mathiesen
Thomas is a proud Minjungbal-Yugambeh, Wiradjuri and Ni-Vanuatu man.
Thomas graduated in 2012 from NAISDA Dance College and has since worked with Vicki Van Hout, Shaun Parker and Company, Branch Nebula, ERTH, Chunky Move, Dancenorth, The FARM, Tasdance, Outer Urban Projects, GUTS and Urban Theatre Projects.
His choreographic credits include his Green Room Award winning work [MIS]CONCEIVE, CO_EX_EN, SILENCE, WEREDINGO and KURAMANUNYA. His works have toured nationally and nationally.
Thomas creates work that explores high intensity physical works stemming from a cultural practice fused with contemporary which incorporates voice and physical percussion. Thomas creates work that reveals subject matters that offers an opportunity to learn and develop. Remembering the past to better understand the present so we can move forward into the future.
In 2017 Thomas co-created Karul Projects. A new company led by new First Nation voices telling new stories. Karul Projects is situated in South East Qld and Northern NSW, Australia.
Thomas graduated in 2012 from NAISDA Dance College and has since worked with Vicki Van Hout, Shaun Parker and Company, Branch Nebula, ERTH, Chunky Move, Dancenorth, The FARM, Tasdance, Outer Urban Projects, GUTS and Urban Theatre Projects.
His choreographic credits include his Green Room Award winning work [MIS]CONCEIVE, CO_EX_EN, SILENCE, WEREDINGO and KURAMANUNYA. His works have toured nationally and nationally.
Thomas creates work that explores high intensity physical works stemming from a cultural practice fused with contemporary which incorporates voice and physical percussion. Thomas creates work that reveals subject matters that offers an opportunity to learn and develop. Remembering the past to better understand the present so we can move forward into the future.
In 2017 Thomas co-created Karul Projects. A new company led by new First Nation voices telling new stories. Karul Projects is situated in South East Qld and Northern NSW, Australia.
Images supplied by Thomas E.S Kelly, photographed by Jimblah, Shannon Hayes and Tiffany Garvie
CHOREOGRAPHIC RESIDENCY
Kelly Nash
Kelly Nash
For the two weeks in February 2024 Kelly Nash, Interim Artistic Manager and mana wahine, has been in choreographic residency exploring different provocations with 5 dance collaborators; Matiu Hamuera, Caleb Heke, Madi Tumataroa, Tai Taranui Hemana, Oli Mathiesen and secondment student from NZSD Sophie Sheaf-Morrison.
Kia mai ki te aka matua, kei mau ki te aka tāepa
Hold the vine rooted in the ground, not the vine hanging from the heavens.
This residency focused on letting the body’s connection to nature be the driving force in decision making; creating a depth of thinking and depth of being in our performance state, resting and slowing down as a form of anti capitalism and anti patriarchy and stepping into the timelessness, the rhythm of nature and our surroundings, nature as matrilineal.
The residency concluded on Friday with a showing open to Corban Estate resident artists outside on the beautiful whenua.
Kia mai ki te aka matua, kei mau ki te aka tāepa
Hold the vine rooted in the ground, not the vine hanging from the heavens.
This residency focused on letting the body’s connection to nature be the driving force in decision making; creating a depth of thinking and depth of being in our performance state, resting and slowing down as a form of anti capitalism and anti patriarchy and stepping into the timelessness, the rhythm of nature and our surroundings, nature as matrilineal.
The residency concluded on Friday with a showing open to Corban Estate resident artists outside on the beautiful whenua.
Images captured by Kelly Nash