Aloali’i Tapu enters the stage with family, friends and guests to create a new performance of memory, dreaming and coexisting.
“A debris of memories reveals the accumulation of community and the evolution of language from the tongue through the body. In the Pacific, this language often mimics its climate – dancing and speaking in the rhythm of nature’s song, sitting close to the earth, holding trees close to the chest or listening to the ocean wash dreams ashore. Aloali’i Tapu enters the stage with family, friends and guests to create a new performance of memory, dreaming and coexisting. Between dreams and imaginings, they return to an origin that is undefined, remembering the history they are bringing to Hamburg, and search for a moment of being one before being the Other”.
Aloali'i Tapu is a Samoan stage, design and dance artist from Aotearoa/New Zealand and co-founder of the Ta'alili Arts Group. He works with artists who specialise in street dance and traditional Pacific dance. He has worked as a mentor and youth worker and studied contemporary dance at UNITEC (New Zealand). For his work as a dancer with Christoph Winkler, he was awarded the FAUST Prize of the German Stage Association.
A co-production with K3 | Tanzplan Hamburg and Pacific Dance NZ.
Funded by Creative NZ, Peacocke Dance Trust and Hamburgische Kulturstiftung.
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