Tua o Te Ārai | Tinana Whenua
TINANA - body, reality, self | WHENUA - land, territory, placenta
Research and Performance Workshops facilitated by Charles Koroneho
Tinana | Whenua is an intercultural and interdisciplinary research forum, focussing on hybridising dance, body weather laboratory, mau rakau, vocalisation and movement practices facilitated as workshops and directed collaborative performances.
The workshop introduces indigenous concepts and philosophical perspectives to explore cultural and individual intersections between body and environments. The foundational approach of the research is to explore and develop an understanding of the individual, communal and ceremonial body in movement and performance, an experiential body within the greater context of Land; a landscape of culture, politics, history and spirituality.
Research concepts TINANA | WHENUA
Papatuanuku - Earth Mother
Whenua - land, placenta
Kopu - womb, uterus
Pito - umbilical end attached to the baby
Iho - middle of the umbilical cord
Rauru - umbilical end attached to the mother
Kopu o te Whenua - womb of the land, burial place
Hikoi te Whenua - wander, journey, walk the land
Research concepts Tua o Te Arai
Customary: Urupa - burial ground, cemetery, graveyard
Remembered: Atamira - an elevated platform for the dead, corpse
Nearly Forgotten: Tuahu - ceremonial platform, sacred place
Unknown: Te Arai, a threshold, resting place for the dead
Movement & Hybrid Training
Hybrid training explores spatial activation, an eclectic movement approach in a continuous movement field. Movement situations include improvised and set material, exploratory work with a rakau (wooden staff), movement creation, individual and partnered improvisation, stretching, breathing and alignment. The foundational concept for hybrid training is the development of communal space as a preparation for improvisation, performance discovery and relational space. Training classes include Partnered Bodywork with a series of specific stretching and relaxation exercises focussed on breathing, alignment and contact. The work is practiced in pairs or small groups, exchanging passive and active roles.
Research and Performance Workshops facilitated by Charles Koroneho
Tinana | Whenua is an intercultural and interdisciplinary research forum, focussing on hybridising dance, body weather laboratory, mau rakau, vocalisation and movement practices facilitated as workshops and directed collaborative performances.
The workshop introduces indigenous concepts and philosophical perspectives to explore cultural and individual intersections between body and environments. The foundational approach of the research is to explore and develop an understanding of the individual, communal and ceremonial body in movement and performance, an experiential body within the greater context of Land; a landscape of culture, politics, history and spirituality.
Research concepts TINANA | WHENUA
Papatuanuku - Earth Mother
Whenua - land, placenta
Kopu - womb, uterus
Pito - umbilical end attached to the baby
Iho - middle of the umbilical cord
Rauru - umbilical end attached to the mother
Kopu o te Whenua - womb of the land, burial place
Hikoi te Whenua - wander, journey, walk the land
Research concepts Tua o Te Arai
Customary: Urupa - burial ground, cemetery, graveyard
Remembered: Atamira - an elevated platform for the dead, corpse
Nearly Forgotten: Tuahu - ceremonial platform, sacred place
Unknown: Te Arai, a threshold, resting place for the dead
Movement & Hybrid Training
Hybrid training explores spatial activation, an eclectic movement approach in a continuous movement field. Movement situations include improvised and set material, exploratory work with a rakau (wooden staff), movement creation, individual and partnered improvisation, stretching, breathing and alignment. The foundational concept for hybrid training is the development of communal space as a preparation for improvisation, performance discovery and relational space. Training classes include Partnered Bodywork with a series of specific stretching and relaxation exercises focussed on breathing, alignment and contact. The work is practiced in pairs or small groups, exchanging passive and active roles.
