Kiko allows you to traverse into an evening of film and dance with timeless souls, into a world-ing that acknowledges the fleshly life of all things, bountiful paradises and running towards the queer and ineffable.
This show is a part of Tempo: Te Rerenga o Tere 2022. To see all Tempo shows at Q, click here. To explore the festival, click here.
Kiko (Flesh) brings together two of Aotearoa’s most influential dance companies - Body Island, a collective that produces both digital and live dance performances and Atamira Dance Company, a contemporary Māori platform whose dreams emerge and find expression through the dancing body.
Kiko allows you to traverse into an evening of film and dance with timeless souls, into a world-ing that acknowledges the fleshly life of all things, bountiful paradises and running towards the queer and ineffable.
An evening of short vignettes with a collection of emerging ideas that spring out from our corporeal embodiment, our skin and shape to connect us to this place.
Tasked with having fun, playing and risking discovery, these stalwart artists are here to express the spirit of live performance and create an intimacy in the shared experience of what we cannot escape from, our flesh.
Kiko is the result of a 2 week creative residency (through Atamira’s choreographic Tuakana programme) featuring participating artists Kelly Nash, Nancy Wijohn, Jack Gray, Taane Mete, Sean MacDonald + Atamira Dancers Abbie Rogers and Caleb Heke.
Post-show kōrero facilitated by Jack Gray on 1 October.
Audience note:
During Tempo Dance Festival, all performances may be filmed, and photographs may be taken for promotional and archival purposes.
Sponsors: Tempo: Te Rerenga o Tere is proudly presented by New Zealand Dance Festival Trust and supported by Creative New Zealand, Foundation North and Auckland Council.
New Zealand Dance Company, New Zealand String Quartet, and Chamber Music New Zealand have collaborated to develop a new work 100 Winds | Taupō Hau Rau, choreographed by NZDC Artistic Director Moss Te Ururangi Patterson (Ngāti Tūwharetoa).
