MAI I TE WAHINE // FROM THE WOMAN
short dance work
(In development) 2017
Bella Waru - Choreographer & dancer
From Her (their) sounds we were moulded. Dropped into an already-lived-in namecasting - no wonder everything felt like memories over newness. No wonder time felt insignificant & the knowing, more familiar daily. He taonga no te whenua, me hoki ano ki te whenua. What is given by the land should return to the land. What is given by the woman should return to the woman. And so of course, when she left, she returned immediately - in me. And now we act on behalf of us all.
Choreographer - Isabella Wháwhai Waru
Dancers - Kathleen Campone . Ebony Howald . Isabella Wháwhai Waru . Hannah Troth