TUA O TE ARAI - beyond the veil, after death
Facilitated by Charles Koroneho
New Performance Development 2019 - 2022
Shrouded in mystery, the passage of the dead in Maori ancestral stories is relayed as a series of arduous tests to complete on their way to the spiritual homeland of Hawaiki. The journey converges at Te Oneroa a Tohe (Ninety Mile Beach), a symbolic vista curving its way to Te Rerenga Wairua - Leaping place of spirits. A spiritual hiatus, the performance takes place at Te Arai, a resting place for spirits, a site for talismans created by the dead, symbols of a life lived, lamentation artifacts, remembrance objects both real and abstract. Crawl, walk, run, and dance Te Arai, a world beyond ours, transit of the departed, ephemeral footsteps, relentless journey.
Creation, Development and Performance
Tua o Te Arai symbolically crosses over to the lifeless, an exploration of grief, bereavement and lamentation. A philisophical contemplation of an afterlife and the unknown.
Drawing on his performance platform Te Toki Haruru, Charles Koroneho will share his artistic methodologies in movement, creative and performance research. Tua o Te Arai proposes four spaces and will be conceptually and creatively considered as customary, remembered, nearly forgotten and unknown.
Urupa - burial ground, cemetery, graveyard (customary)
Atamira - an elevated platform for the dead, corpse (remembered)
Tuahu - ceremonial platform, sacred place for ritual practices (nearly forgotten)
Te Arai - a threshold, resting place for the dead (unknown)
Through an examination of grief, bereavement and lamentation Tua o Te Arai will explore the possibilities of the communal and ceremonial body in performance. The performance development will explore hiatus and repose, the aesthetic preparation and presentation of the dead, keening, lamentation songs and artifact making. These provocations provide a platform to develop and explore choreographic thresholds, the cultural precipice, transgression and liminality.
Hiatus and Repose - movement, spatial, design exploration
Artifact Making - remembrance, talisman, keepsake, memento
Tikiwananga - binding, weaving and lashing
Ataamira - aesthetic preparation and presentation of the dead
Rakau Atua - transit staff (space), earth post (negotiate), sky pillar (conduit)
New Performance Development 2019 - 2022
Shrouded in mystery, the passage of the dead in Maori ancestral stories is relayed as a series of arduous tests to complete on their way to the spiritual homeland of Hawaiki. The journey converges at Te Oneroa a Tohe (Ninety Mile Beach), a symbolic vista curving its way to Te Rerenga Wairua - Leaping place of spirits. A spiritual hiatus, the performance takes place at Te Arai, a resting place for spirits, a site for talismans created by the dead, symbols of a life lived, lamentation artifacts, remembrance objects both real and abstract. Crawl, walk, run, and dance Te Arai, a world beyond ours, transit of the departed, ephemeral footsteps, relentless journey.
Creation, Development and Performance
Tua o Te Arai symbolically crosses over to the lifeless, an exploration of grief, bereavement and lamentation. A philisophical contemplation of an afterlife and the unknown.
Drawing on his performance platform Te Toki Haruru, Charles Koroneho will share his artistic methodologies in movement, creative and performance research. Tua o Te Arai proposes four spaces and will be conceptually and creatively considered as customary, remembered, nearly forgotten and unknown.
Urupa - burial ground, cemetery, graveyard (customary)
Atamira - an elevated platform for the dead, corpse (remembered)
Tuahu - ceremonial platform, sacred place for ritual practices (nearly forgotten)
Te Arai - a threshold, resting place for the dead (unknown)
Through an examination of grief, bereavement and lamentation Tua o Te Arai will explore the possibilities of the communal and ceremonial body in performance. The performance development will explore hiatus and repose, the aesthetic preparation and presentation of the dead, keening, lamentation songs and artifact making. These provocations provide a platform to develop and explore choreographic thresholds, the cultural precipice, transgression and liminality.
Hiatus and Repose - movement, spatial, design exploration
Artifact Making - remembrance, talisman, keepsake, memento
Tikiwananga - binding, weaving and lashing
Ataamira - aesthetic preparation and presentation of the dead
Rakau Atua - transit staff (space), earth post (negotiate), sky pillar (conduit)
Research and Performance 2015 - 18
