Pasifika Day @ TAPAC
SAT 10TH MARCH
Programme
11am Pacific Dance NZ Hula workshop for public participation
12.30 TAPAC Entrance Ura Tabu Pacific Dance
1pm TAPAC Theatre – Birds
3pm TAPAC THEATRE Playreading of ‘E Ono Tama’i Pato’ by Maureen Fepuleai
5pm TAPAC STUDIO ‘Revival’ by Chris Molloy & Indigenous Theatre Group 2
ALL WELCOME – ENTRANCE BY KOHA
Pacific Dance NZ Hula Workshop - Everyone welcome to join in!
Polydancing in the City with Kumu Blaine Kamalani Kia
Polydancing in the City is Pacific Dance New Zealand’s annual dance workshop held as part of the Pasifika festival. This year, we are pleased to have visiting kumu hula Blaine Kamalani Kia presents a 1 hour free taster workshop introducing Hawai’i’s art of hula dancing.
Kumu hula Blaine Kia is a master hula teacher based in Hawai’i and is the head and founder of the Ka Laua’e Foundation, which runs a number of halau (hula schools) around the world.
This foundation has more than 2000 students learning in 15 halau from Japan to the West Coast of America and as of 2010 right here in Auckland. Kumu Blaine’s Auckland based halau is called – Ka Waikahe Lani Malie (Heavenly peaceful flowing waters).
Kumu hula Blaine will offer an introductory course into the basics of Hawaiian hula, covering some of the history of the dance and introducing participants to the basic movements of hula.
Come and learn the graceful sway of the Islands and get a taste of Hawai’i’s world famous artform!
Registrations are essential as class size is limited. To register email auckland@pacificdance.co.nz
Ura Tabu Pacific Dance welcomes you on the front steps of TAPAC 12.30
newwayinTHEATRE presents a premiere performance of
BIRDS
A new theatrical work written & directed by Dianna Fuemana performed by Ali Foa’i & Reid Elisaia
An urban story told through the eyes of a young Niue boy growing up in Auckland’s Avondale Hood-Lands.
Tommy likes to dance the hip-hop, has a mad crush on the lead Kapa Haka girl at school and believes he can kung fu the biggest bully terrorizing the local Riversdale Park. But Moka has different plans for Tommy. Moka wants him to wake up on time for school, go to university and learn things Niue. Two wills collide but both must win in order to fly like the BIRDS. Shining a light on the bond between son and mother within a small community, BIRDS gives flight to the voices of the hood.
THE REVIVAL (new working title)
A powerful new work by Chris Molloy and Indigenous Theatre Group, (The Last Taniwha – Matariki Festival 2011 and His Mother’s Son – Pacific Fringe 2012)
’The REVIVAL’ is set from 1907 (the passing of the Tohunga Supression Act) through the both World War’s through to 1970′s New Zealand, where urban drift is at its peak and new Pentecostal Charismatic movement has taken a stronghold of a physically and spiritually displaced people. Evangelists quickly rise to power and national fame only to fall into sin just as quickly.
Essentially a love story, this epic historic tale is laced with the horriors of war, grand gospel music and spiritual fervour including great miracles and coupled with unbridled passion, love, lust and naked ambition. It asks the question that the historian and moralist, John Acton (1834–1902) expressed “Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely”
Do great men, always become bad men?
