Name: Kōanga Festival | Kia Pohewatia with Rachel Ruckstuhl-Mann
Start: 2025-09-14T04:00:00+12:00
End: 2025-09-14T05:30:00+12:00
Location: 2 Mount Lebanon Ln, Henderson, Auckland, New Zealand 0612

$K\u014danga Festival | Kia Pohewatia with Rachel Ruckstuhl-Mann$

Kia Pohewatia is Atamira Dance Company’s choreographic residency programme dedicated to supporting Māori choreographers in developing new works.
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.
Meeting point: Please meet at Te Pou Theatre - our kaimahi will guide everyone across to the showing location when ready.
This showing is presented as part of Kōanga Festival 2025.