About...
- Name
- Atamira Dance Company
- A bit about
ATAMIRA is New Zealand’s leading Maori Contemporary dance company and comprises New Zealand’s top Maori dancers and choreographers. Atamira Dance Company create professional dance works inspired by Aotearoa’s history, legends and contemporary issues; drawing from their own personal stories and whakapapa. Critically acclaimed, the company is renowned for their inventive and stunning pieces.
We are passionate about sharing our stories, and asserting the unique and important voice Maori have in New Zealand. We create dance work that reflects these values, and contributes to the collective voice of contemporary Maori art.
Founded in 2000 as a platform for Maori choreographers and dancers, Atamira is a project-based contemporary dance company. Atamira strives for innovation and experimentation in contemporary dance and choreography, whilst respecting our cultural heritage.
ATAMIRA Dance Company is an Auckland based company, with members having tribal connections right around New Zealand. This diversity is also reflected in the individual strengths each performer brings to the collective.
We actively incorporate other art forms into our choreographic work, and collaborate with many artists on all of our dance projects. The literal meaning of the word Atamira is "stage", a deeper meaning behind Atamira relates traditionally to the platform for the dead body, and the process of caring for those who have died.
Contact Details
- Organisation name
- Atamira Dance Company
- Physical Address
Corban Estate Arts Centre
426 Great North Rd, cnr Mt Lebanon Lane
Henderson
Waitakere
Auckland- Postal Address
P.O Box 21019
Henderson Mall
Auckland 0650- info@atamiradance.co.nz
- Phone
- 09 838 5780
- Organisation Website URL
- http://www.atamiradance.co.nz
- YouTube URL
- http://www.youtube.com/user/atamiradance
- Facebook URL
- http://www.facebook.com/pages/Atamira-Dance-Company/124245364253126
History
- Member for
- 5 years 32 weeks
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Te Houhi celebrates the tribal history of choreographer Maaka Pepene whose ancestors the Tuhoe people provided refuge to Maori prophet and freedom fi
Based on the transportation (by hand) of the Wahrenui 'Tama Ki Hikurangi' from Te Houhi to Waiohau in 1908, this work has ambitions to be developed.
Taonga - Dust, Water, Wind. A dance work by Atamira Dance company, choreographed by Louise Potiki Bryant, featuring taonga puoro (music using traditio
Memoirs of Active Service - a dance work by Atamira Dance Company, choreographed by Maaka Pepene. Recalling the experiences of the Maori Battalion dur
CONNECTED2010 | March 02, 2010 Interview with Moss Patterson Atamira collective 1st March Tokyo 2010
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