HUIHUI

COMMUNITY WORKSHOPS


MON 14 - WED 16 OCTOBER

Image: Milly Grant-Koria of Tūrongo Collective

Tempo Dance Festival Te Rerenga o Tere proudly presents a series of community hui, offering our creative whānau a space to kōrero, connect, and create. Hosted by Tāmaki Makaurau’s esteemed dance creatives alongside Moss Te Ururangi Patterson, these hui are an invitation to come together and explore the theme of ‘Stories of Place’.

Join us on Monday, 14th October with Pacific Dance New Zealand at The Factory Theatre, Onehunga; on Tuesday, 15th October with Atamira Dance Company at Te Pou Theatre, Corban Estate; and on Wednesday, 16th October with the Faculty of Creative Arts and Industries at the University of Auckland.

Each hui will feature movement workshops, facilitated discussions, and showcases, providing an opportunity to share, learn, and celebrate the power of place through dance.

Pacific Dance New Zealand

MON 14 OCT, 6:30PM

The Factory Theatre
80 Onehunga Mall
Onehunga, Auckland

VENUE:

  • Charlene Tedrow

  • Iosefa Enari MNZM

Guest Facilitators:

SCHEDULE:

  • 6:30PM - Welcome to Studio - Iosefa Enari, Moss Patterson

  • 6:45 - 8:15PM - Movement Workshop - Charlene Tedrow

  • 8:30 - 9:45PM - Facilitated Talanoa ‘Stories of Place’ - Iosefa Enari

  • 9:45 - 10:00PM - Workshop closing acknowledgements

ATAMIRA DANCE COMPANY

TUE 15 OCT, 10:00AM

VENUE:

Te Pou Theatre
Corban Estate Arts Centre
Henderson, Waitakere

Guest Facilitators:

  • Kelly Nash

  • Madison Tumataroa

  • Abbie Rogers

  • Caleb Heke

Due to unforeseen circumstances, this event has been cancelled.

SCHEDULE:

  • 10:00AM - Welcome to Studio – Marama Lloyd, Moss Patterson

  • 10.15 – 11.45AM - Movement Workshop – Kelly Nash

  • 12.15 – 1.45PM - Ka Mua Ka Muri repertoire workshop Madison Tumataroa, Abbie Rogers & Caleb Heke

  • 1:45 - 2:00PM  Worksop closing acknowledgements

 Faculty of Creative Arts and Industries 

WAIPAPA TAUMATA RAU

The University of Auckland

WED 16 OCT, 10:00AM

University of Auckland Dance Department
Room 240A,  Level 2, Building 201, 10 Symonds St (via Charles Nalden Way)

VENUE:

Guest Facilitators:

  • Dr. Tia Reihana

  • Dr. Becca Weber

  • Moss Te Ururangi Patterson

  • Teulia Hughes

  • Support team: 

    Ngā tauira roopu 

TuĀkana Tauira:

  • Sidney Sherwood

  • Mikaela Debela

  • Volunteer UoA Students

SCHEDULE:

  • 10:00AM - Welcome to Studio – Dr Tia Rehana and Moss Patterson

  • 10.15 – 11.30AM - Movement Workshop - Mikaela Debela and Sidney Sherwood

  • 11.35 - 12.15PM - Kai & Kōrero - Ngā Kaikanikani Tauira (Shared films)

    NGA KŌRERO KAIKANIKANI TUĀKANA

  • 12.15 – 12:45PM - Dr. Becca Weber

  • 12:45 - 1:15PM - Moss Patterson in discussion with Dr. Tia Reihana (Cross-cultural, Trans-Indigenous Collaborations in Horizon with Bangarra Dance Theatre)

  • 1:15 - 1:50PM - Poroporoaki and facilitated Talanoa with Teuila Hughes

  • 1:50 - 2:00PM - Kaimahi Koha and Karakia Whakamutunga - Moss Patterson

Dr Becca Weber is a senior lecturer at the University of Auckland. Her work investigates intersections between dance, science, and somatics. Becca earned a PhD in Dance Psychology from Coventry University while working on the Leverhulme Trust-  funded project, “In the Dancer’s Mind.” She has been published widely, including in Dance and the Quality of Life; Research in Dance Education; Multimodal Perspectives in the Performing Arts; The Journal of Dance and Somatic Practices;  Dance, Movement and Spiritualities; and the anthology Dance, Somatics, and Spiritualities: Contemporary Sacred Narratives, which she co-edited.  

Sidney Sherwood is a third-year dance studies student at The University of Auckland. She is enthusiastic about dance education and its value, influence, and place in the curriculum. Sidney has worked in a myriad of educational contexts, striving to provide her students with more understanding of the world, through dance. 

Mikaela Debela is a creative practitioner in the final year of her Bachelor of Dance Studies at the University of Auckland. Previously based in Wellington, Mikaela holds community and building connections at the centre of her practice. Mikaela is interested in exploring and blurring genre lines in dance through collaboration, as well as investigating different forms of creative practice. She aspires to work in live performance spaces, both onstage and off.

Teuila Hughes is a PhD candidate from the University of Auckland, Dance Studies Programme. Her research is currently exploring the cultural history of Samoan dance and the shifts that have occurred in its practices and aesthetics that have led to its positioning within our globalised present. She is also a Graduate Teaching Assistant at the University of Auckland, Dance Studies Programme where she teaches papers such as Contemporary Pacific Dance Practices and Performance, Dance and Culture, and Creative and Somatic Dance Practices. Her interests lie within the areas of performance aesthetics, education and research both within academic and community contexts. She is passionate about the development of Pacific dance practices, concepts and pedagogies towards supporting both established and emerging Pacific dance practitioners.

Dr. Tia Reihana is a Senior lecturer in Dance Studies at The University of Auckland. She has been well-published in leading arts, performance, and education journals. Her PhD, Te mana Motuhake o te kauri (the authority of the Kauri tree), developed an intercultural praxis through Kaupapa Māori research with Marrugeku  Dance Theatre, Australia’s leading Indigenous performance ensemble. Dr Reihana works extensively in Arts, Education and Health with Indigenous communities in Aotearoa and the wider Pacific. She is the co-director of the newly established Centre for Co-Created Ageing Research (CREATE-AGE) at the University of Auckland.

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