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Bianca Hyslop
Bianca Hyslop is a New Zealand Māori dancer and choreographer. She is affiliated to Te Arawa and Ngāti Whakaue iwi. Biography Hyslop completed a Bachelor of Performing Screen and Arts degree at Unitec Institute of Technology in 2009. She became a freelance dancer and joined Atamira Dance Company. In 2016 Hyslop was the inaugural recipient of Dance Aotearoa New Zealand's Māori Choreolab in which she was paired with mentor Merenia Gray. Also in 2016 Hyslop created a choreographic work called ''A Murmuration'' for The New Zealand Dance Company as part of their Emerging Choreographers programme. In 2019 she worked with Rosie Tapsell of Ngāti Whakaue and artist Rowan Pierce to co-create a dance piece, ''Pōhutu''. ''Pōhutu'' was included in the 2019 Tempo Dance Festival and the 2019 Kia Mau Festival at the Hannah Playhouse. At the 2021 Kia Mau Festival Hyslop, Pierce along with Tūī Matira Ranapiri Ransfield mounted an installation called ''Te Mauri o Pōhutu'' at the galle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Māori People
The Māori (, ) are the indigenous Polynesian people of mainland New Zealand (). Māori originated with settlers from East Polynesia, who arrived in New Zealand in several waves of canoe voyages between roughly 1320 and 1350. Over several centuries in isolation, these settlers developed their own distinctive culture, whose language, mythology, crafts, and performing arts evolved independently from those of other eastern Polynesian cultures. Some early Māori moved to the Chatham Islands, where their descendants became New Zealand's other indigenous Polynesian ethnic group, the Moriori. Initial contact between Māori and Europeans, starting in the 18th century, ranged from beneficial trade to lethal violence; Māori actively adopted many technologies from the newcomers. With the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi in 1840, the two cultures coexisted for a generation. Rising tensions over disputed land sales led to conflict in the 1860s, and massive land confiscations, to which ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Te Arawa
Te Arawa is a confederation of Māori iwi and hapu (tribes and sub-tribes) of New Zealand who trace their ancestry to the Arawa migration canoe (''waka'')."Te Arawa" ''Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand''. The tribes are based in the and areas and have a population of around 40,000. History The history of the Te Arawa people is inextricably linked to the Arawa canoe. The Te Arawa tribes have a close historical interest in the lakes around Rotorua. Many Te Arawa men fought for the Colonial Government in the |
Ngāti Whakaue
Ngāti Whakaue is a Māori iwi, of the Te Arawa confederation of New Zealand. The tribe lives in the Rotorua district and descends from the Arawa waka. The Ngāti Whakaue village Ōhinemutu is within the township of Rotorua. Ngāti Whakaue traces descent from Whakaue Kaipapa, son of Uenuku-kopakō, and grandson of Tūhourangi. The Ngāti Whakaue chief Pūkākī is depicted on the New Zealand 20 cent coin. Te Arawa FM is the radio station of Te Arawa iwi, including Ngāti Whakaue, Ngāti Pikiao and Tūhourangi. It was established in the early 1980s and became a charitable entity in November 1990. The station underwent a major transformation in 1993, becoming Whanau FM. One of the station's frequencies was taken over by Mai FM in 1998; the other became Pumanawa FM before later reverting to Te Arawa FM. It is available on in Rotorua. See also *Te Papaiouru Marae *Arawa (canoe) ''Arawa'' was one of the great ocean-going, voyaging canoes in Māori traditions that was us ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Unitec Institute Of Technology
Unitec Institute of Technology (Māori: Te Whare Wānanga o Wairaka) is the largest institute of technology in Auckland, New Zealand. 16,844 students study programmes from certificate to postgraduate degree level (levels 1 to 9) across a range of subjects. The main campus is situated in Mt Albert while a secondary Waitākere campus is situated in Henderson and there are various pop-ups throughout the North Shore. It also offers programs overseas. History Unitec was founded as Carrington Technical Institute in 1976 on the Mt Albert site on Carrington road, which has 55 hectares of grounds. The area on which Unitec's main campus is located was formerly home to the Whau Lunatic Asylum, later known as Carrington Hospital. The hospital building (Building 1) is an imposing brick Italianate- Romanesque structure, located at the northern end of the Unitec Campus. The hospital building was the largest in New Zealand when it was built in the 1860s. The hospital was decommissioned during ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Atamira Dance Company
Atamira Dance Company is a Māori contemporary dance company in Aotearoa (New Zealand) based at the Corban Estate Arts Centre in Auckland. History In 2000, the company was founded from a vision of Jack Gray's for a collective of young Māori dancers and choreographers to present dance projects relative to their shared cultural heritage and perspective. The founding members were Gray, Dolina Wehipeihana, Louise Potiki Bryant and Justine Hohaia. The four met during 1999 while Gray and Wehipeihana were studying contemporary dance at UNITEC, subsequently becoming acquainted with Hohaia and Bryant at a tertiary dance festival. At that point Bryant was studying Māori Studies at University of Otago and Hohaia at Wellington's New Zealand School of Dance. Potiki Bryant went on to study at the dance programme at UNITEC. Atamira Dance Company is part of a growth in contemporary Māori dance in New Zealand that started in the 1980s with companies like ''Te Kanikani O Te Rangatahi'' (1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dance Aotearoa New Zealand
Dance Aotearoa New Zealand (DANZ) is the national support organisation for dance in New Zealand, founded in 1993. It is a not-for-profit, with a stated mission "to make dance visible" through "the promotion of dance and the provision of services to the dance sector in all its diversity." In 2019 it failed to gain funding from Creative New Zealand and sought a judicial review of the funding decision in 2021. History DANZ is the national support organisation for dance in New Zealand. It is a not-for-profit, with a stated mission is "to make dance visible" through "the promotion of dance and the provision of services to the dance sector in all its diversity." DANZ was established in 1993, and was initially focussed on ballet and contemporary dance. It has since expanded to provide support for all dance forms. The 2013/2014 SPARC 'active New Zealanders' survey found that three times the number of adults regularly dance as play rugby. DANZ is based in the Toi Pōneke Arts Centre i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The New Zealand Dance Company
The New Zealand Dance Company (incorporated as The New Zealand Dance Advancement Trust) is an Auckland based, nationally focused contemporary dance company. Established in 2012, by co-founders Chief Executive/Artistic Director (and Arts Laureate) Shona McCullagh and the founding General Manager Frances Turner, the company sought to break the paradigm of dance companies operating on a project by project basis, presenting work by one choreographer, and moved instead to a sustainable model of presenting a variety of choreographic works. About The New Zealand Dance Company (NZDC) was begun in 2021 by former Limbs Dance Company member Shona McCullagh. Like Limbs, the NZDC company commissions work from New Zealand and international choreographers. Part of the mission was to support new talent and utilise dancers and choreographers who had left New Zealand. The founding production was the ''Language of Living,'' featuring choreographers Michael Parmenter, Justin Haiu, Sarah Fost ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kia Mau Festival
The Kia Mau Festival, previously called Ahi Kaa Festival, is a biennial performing arts festival in Wellington, New Zealand. In te reo Māori, kia mau is "a call to stay - an invitation to join us". The festival covers Māori, Pasifika and indigenous performing arts, including comedy, music, dance and theatre, across a variety of venues around the Wellington area. Background The Kia Mau Festival was founded by playwright Hone Kouka. The inaugural festival was in 2015, and it was held annually until 2019. Background to the Kia Mau festival was the production company Tawata with Kouka and another playwright Mīria George at the helm creating the Matariki Development Festival in 2010 at Circa Theatre. This was a festival for 'new writing for the stage by Māori'. Tawata had also organised a meeting about 'Māori Theatre' at Downstage Theatre in 2006, at this was a panel discussion chaired by Alice Te Punga-Somerville who asked, "Describe the last play your wrote and how it ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hannah Playhouse
The Hannah Playhouse is a theatre venue situated on the corner of Courtenay Place and Cambridge Terrace in central Wellington, New Zealand. The Hannah Playhouse was given by Sheilah Winn (first cousin of Edith Campion, mother of Jane Campion) and named after her grandfather, Robert Hannah, a very successful businessman. It was carefully designed and built to house Downstage Theatre. Background Sheilah Winn (born Sheila Maureen Hannah, 1917–2001) announced in 1965 she would make a gift of NZ£150,000 (). available to build a substantial theatre venue, named in honour of her Hannah family. Her grandfather Robert Hannah founded the R. Hannah & Co. shoemaking and retailing nationwide chain. The design for the Hannah Playhouse took place in the mid 1960s, initially designed by Ron Parker. He was followed by architect James Beard. In 1968 the Hannah Playhouse Trust was formed to use Winn's gift to build the theatre venue on the site of the building containing Downstage Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toi Pōneke Arts Centre
The Toi Pōneke Arts Centre (61–69 Abel Smith Street, Te Aro, Wellington), is the New Zealand capital's creative production facility and support complex. It was established between 2003 and 2005, and was formally opened by Mayor Kerry Prendergast in July 2005. For twelve years previous, the city's arts centre had been based at the much smaller Oriental Bay Rotunda. The new complex, spread across two buildings and seven floors, has a focus on active creative production in all disciplines, and on the further advancement of cultural identity in New Zealand. It is located in the bustling and dynamic Upper Cuba Street neighbourhood of Wellington. The arts centre houses a combination of 29 artist studios, rehearsal spaces, music rooms, and administrative offices. It is home to over a dozen producers, festivals, or arts organisations, including Cuba Street Carnival, the New Zealand Fringe Festival, Dance Aotearoa NZ, Sticky Pictures, and Arts Access Aotearoa. Other cultural concern ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living People
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Unitec Institute Of Technology Alumni
Unitec may refer to: * UNITEC-1, a satellite *Unitec Institute of Technology, Auckland, New Zealand *Universidad Tecnológica de México, Mexico City, Mexico *Universidad Tecnológica Centroamericana The Central American Technological University ( es, Universidad Tecnológica Centroamericana) (UNITEC) is a private coeducational institution with campuses in the three main cities of Honduras: Tegucigalpa, San Pedro Sula and La Ceiba. Histor ..., Tegucigalpa and San Pedro Sula, Honduras * Universidad Tecnológica del Centro, Carabobo, Venezuela * UNITEC (Mexibús), a BRT station in Ecatepec de Morelos See also * Unitech (other) {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
