Kōanga Festival - Kia Pohewatia with Rachel Ruckstuhl-Mann
Closes
Sep 14, 2025Posted on
Jul 25, 2025Event type:
Cultural , Dance ,Price:
$10Venue:
Te Pou TheatreAddress:
2 Mount Lebanon Lane, Henderson, Auckland 0612Region:
Auckland ,
Kia Pohewatia is Atamira Dance Company’s choreographic residency programme dedicated to supporting Māori choreographers in developing new works. Through studio time, mentorship, and collaboration with Atamira artists, this residency offers a space for research, experimentation, and the early shaping of future projects.
Rachel Ruckstuhl-Mann’s work draws on indigenous performance methodologies, activating space through whakapapa, memory, and embodied storytelling. Honouring place-based knowledge and the unique histories within each body, her work creates intimate connections between audiences and whenua through movement and non-linear narratives. This work incorporates improvisation, object manipulation and moving images to explore the nested system of Ōpānuku as an alive and evolving force. This presentation includes a sharing of Rachel’s research and insights behind the work.