TEMPEST: WITHOUT A BODY

10 JAN, 1PM & 8PM

Lemi Ponifasio & MAU (New Zealand)

First staged at the Vienna Festival in 2007 Tempest: without a body is a poignant, poetic and frighteningly beautiful reflection on the post-9/11 world.

An angel with a broken body and crumpled wings too small for flight wanders on a landscape of blood and destruction. The dancers of the MAU company emerge from the shadows to pray on the ruins of history.

Part dance, part theatre, part oratory, Tempest grabs you by the throat with its authentic style and content, and the presence on stage of Maori activist Tame Iti adds ceremonial and political potency.

'An impressive choreographic tour de force' Le Soir (Belgium)

Presented as part of Sydney Festival at the Seymour

MAU also present the 5th Pacific Thought Symposium

10 JAN - FREE EVENT

Between performances of Tempest: without a body, MAU Artistic Director Lemi Ponifasio convenes the first Pacific Thought Symposium to be held on this side of the Tasman.

This symposium is a rare opportunity to share different views and cultural philosophies and to provoke and propose new ways to grapple with Pacific thought. Ponifasio’s theme – Bringing Forth the Ancestors – seeks common ground with Sydney’s Indigenous and Pacific communities.