 Event |
Tempest
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| Venue |
MAU Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand |
| Umbrella Event |
Auckland Arts Festival 2007 |
| First Date |
11 March 2007 |
| Opening Date |
11 March 2007 |
| Last Date |
16 March 2007 |
| Dates Estimated |
No |
| Status |
Professional |
| World Premiere |
No |
| Description |
Tempest is a new work from Lemi Ponifasio that inflects towards the Shakespeare work, though draws away from being either a staging or an adaptation of it. Rather, Tempest is the collision of the island geography of the play and the political writings of the contemporary philosopher Giorgio Agamben, concerned with our contemporary crisis of the destitution of rights, whereby any citizen may be constituted as a detainee and any urban condition may become that of the camp. Tempest is the performance of a staged meeting, within conditions of detention and loss of sovereign rights. The language of Tempest is Maori and its oratory signals the rebirth of an indigenous voice in the telling of the shifting conditions of political right, from the scientific journey to witness the transit of Venus that coincided with colonial conquest, to the current geopolitics of the Pacific. Tempest is a semi-staged production preceding its world premiere in Europe 2007. |
| Description Source |
Programme |
| Primary Genre |
Dance
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| Secondary Genre |
Indigenous
Dance Theatre
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| Text Nationality |
New Zealand
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| Production Nationality |
New Zealand
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| Event Status |
Completed
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| Data Source |
| Source |
Description |
| Programme |
Auckland Arts Festival 2007 (Electronic Archive). Archived by the National Library of New Zealand. Digital Collection = Kohinga Matihiko 81268192800002836 Alma Collection |
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| Event Identifier |
157963 |
| Dataset |
AusStage |
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