RUA I TE - 2026
Upcoming Events
Upcoming Events
Ko Te Ākau Digital - Te Atamira Matihiko
Ko Te Ākau is a visual arts installation and curated performance program for live and virtual spaces, created for group and solo performances, within a design accurate installation of lighting, sound design and video projection. The project references the collaborative works of artists Ralph Hotere and Bill Culbert and serves as an inspiration and meeting place of difference to the formation of new spaces, the performance of community, poetry and ancestral bodies.
Ko Te Ākau is best served by 'Mātiro Whakamua' with a gaze firmly fixed on the horizon. The project is aesthetically futuristic and abstract, a vehicle for the past, present and future, performed by the living ancestral body of the artists. In this shared space performances journey us through remembrance, acknowledgement, and aspiration. The hope of a poetic land, water and sky is the horizon carried by the kaupapa, where the optimism and guidance of a human being in ceremonial performance places our imagination amongst the cosmos.
Ko Te Ākau was commissioned by the Nelson Arts Festival, in collaboration with Te Toki Haruru, Filament Eleven 11 and Refinery ArtSpace. Supported by Creative New Zealand and Te Arawhiti.
Ko Te Ākau is a visual arts installation and curated performance program for live and virtual spaces, created for group and solo performances, within a design accurate installation of lighting, sound design and video projection. The project references the collaborative works of artists Ralph Hotere and Bill Culbert and serves as an inspiration and meeting place of difference to the formation of new spaces, the performance of community, poetry and ancestral bodies.
Ko Te Ākau is best served by 'Mātiro Whakamua' with a gaze firmly fixed on the horizon. The project is aesthetically futuristic and abstract, a vehicle for the past, present and future, performed by the living ancestral body of the artists. In this shared space performances journey us through remembrance, acknowledgement, and aspiration. The hope of a poetic land, water and sky is the horizon carried by the kaupapa, where the optimism and guidance of a human being in ceremonial performance places our imagination amongst the cosmos.
Ko Te Ākau was commissioned by the Nelson Arts Festival, in collaboration with Te Toki Haruru, Filament Eleven 11 and Refinery ArtSpace. Supported by Creative New Zealand and Te Arawhiti.
Ko Te Ākau Digital - Te Atamira Matihiko 2026
- Te Whanganui a Tara, Wellington Waterfront. February 2026. In partnership with the Performance Arcade
- Katowice, Poland, June 2026. Kakeyo ka acakohwihk - All is Spirit. In partnership with the Sarasa Performance Lab
- Tāmaki Makaurau, October 2026. In partnership with Tempo Dance Festival
- Te Whanganui a Tara, Wellington Waterfront. February 2026. In partnership with the Performance Arcade
- Katowice, Poland, June 2026. Kakeyo ka acakohwihk - All is Spirit. In partnership with the Sarasa Performance Lab
- Tāmaki Makaurau, October 2026. In partnership with Tempo Dance Festival
Lead Creative - Charles Koroneho (Te Toki Haruru)
Design and Creative Collaboration - Brad Gledhill, Rachel Marlow, Tony Black (Filament Eleven 11)
Digital Capture and Creative Collaboration - Rihare Te Are
Production and Creative Collaboration - Teokotai Paitai, Stella Seawright
Performance and Creative Collaboration - Chris Graham, Samara Davis, Rosie Te Rauawhea Belvie, Eddie Elliott, Natasha Kanapé Fontaine, Victoria Hunt, Charles Koroneho
Design and Creative Collaboration - Brad Gledhill, Rachel Marlow, Tony Black (Filament Eleven 11)
Digital Capture and Creative Collaboration - Rihare Te Are
Production and Creative Collaboration - Teokotai Paitai, Stella Seawright
Performance and Creative Collaboration - Chris Graham, Samara Davis, Rosie Te Rauawhea Belvie, Eddie Elliott, Natasha Kanapé Fontaine, Victoria Hunt, Charles Koroneho
Bird of Passage
Northern Hemisphere Premiere
Vancouver, BC Canada
In partnership with Vancouver International Dance Festival, Coastal Dance Festival, Museum of Anthropology
March 2026
Lead Creative - Charles Koroneho
Live Solo Performance - Charles Koroneho
Collaboration - Sean Curham, Filament Eleven 11
Northern Hemisphere Premiere
Vancouver, BC Canada
In partnership with Vancouver International Dance Festival, Coastal Dance Festival, Museum of Anthropology
March 2026
Lead Creative - Charles Koroneho
Live Solo Performance - Charles Koroneho
Collaboration - Sean Curham, Filament Eleven 11
RUA I TE - Performance Workshop
Indigenous creativity and research, a continuous encounter with knowledge and experiential learning. A creative platform for artistic presentation, practice and research, acknowledging the potential, to remember, forget, allow, receive, create, build, observe, retain, share, exchange, commit, risk, experience, capacity, aspire, embody, evoke, embrace and love.
- Vancouver, BC Canada, June 2026. In partnership with Museum of Anthropology, Coastal Dance Festival, Vancouver International Dance Festival.
- Tāmaki Makaurau, September 2026. In partnership in Te Toki Haruru.
- Gosford, NSW Australia, November 2026. In partnership with Te Toki Haruru and NAISDA Dance College.
Indigenous creativity and research, a continuous encounter with knowledge and experiential learning. A creative platform for artistic presentation, practice and research, acknowledging the potential, to remember, forget, allow, receive, create, build, observe, retain, share, exchange, commit, risk, experience, capacity, aspire, embody, evoke, embrace and love.
- Vancouver, BC Canada, June 2026. In partnership with Museum of Anthropology, Coastal Dance Festival, Vancouver International Dance Festival.
- Tāmaki Makaurau, September 2026. In partnership in Te Toki Haruru.
- Gosford, NSW Australia, November 2026. In partnership with Te Toki Haruru and NAISDA Dance College.
Reference Workshop - Tua o Te Ārai | Tinana Whenua
July 16-22 2018 - Shadbolt Centre for the Arts, Deer Lake BC, Canada.
July 16-22 2018 - Shadbolt Centre for the Arts, Deer Lake BC, Canada.
RUA I TE - 2025
Ko Te Ākau Digital - Te Atamira Matihiko 2025
Vancouver, BC Canada
In partnership with the Coastal Dance Festival, Museum of Anthropology and Vancouver International Dance Festival
Lead Creative - Charles Koroneho
Collaborative Director - Natasha Kanapé Fontaine
Live Solo Performance - Charles Koroneho
Digital Performance - Chris Graham, Samara Davis, Rosie Te Rauawhea Belvie, Eddie Elliott, Natasha Kanapé Fontaine, Victoria Hunt, Charles Koroneho
Vancouver, BC Canada
In partnership with the Coastal Dance Festival, Museum of Anthropology and Vancouver International Dance Festival
Lead Creative - Charles Koroneho
Collaborative Director - Natasha Kanapé Fontaine
Live Solo Performance - Charles Koroneho
Digital Performance - Chris Graham, Samara Davis, Rosie Te Rauawhea Belvie, Eddie Elliott, Natasha Kanapé Fontaine, Victoria Hunt, Charles Koroneho
Ko Te Ākau - Haida House 02 - 09 March 2025
Kakeyo ka acakohwihk - All is Spirit July 2025
Poundmaker Cree Nation, SK Canada
In partnership with the Sarasa Performance Lab and Poundmaker Performance Festival
Research Facilitators - Floyd Favel, Sabina Sweta Sen-Podstawska, Mariel Belanger, Charles Koroneho
Poundmaker Cree Nation, SK Canada
In partnership with the Sarasa Performance Lab and Poundmaker Performance Festival
Research Facilitators - Floyd Favel, Sabina Sweta Sen-Podstawska, Mariel Belanger, Charles Koroneho
