Bianca Hyslop is a New Zealand

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dancer and choreographer. She is affiliated to Te Arawa and

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 tra ...

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 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 ...

. In 2016 Hyslop was the inaugural recipient of

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 service ...

'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 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 Lau ...

as part of their Emerging Choreographers programme. In 2019 she worked with Rosie Tapsell of

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 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 in ...

at the

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) an ...

. At the 2021 Kia Mau Festival Hyslop, Pierce along with Tūī Matira Ranapiri Ransfield mounted an installation called ''Te Mauri o Pōhutu'' at the gallery in the

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 Prenderg ...

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References

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