Hawaiki TŪ return with a powerful, new, in-development Māori dance work embodying the virtue of balance and duality. This vital and ritualistic experience invokes its ancestral roots in an indigenous physical expression of the contemporary journey to reclamation.

PŪMANAWA - A brand-new dance work by Hawaiki TŪ with its complex meanings including ‘intuitive waters’ seeks to express forms of release, flow and redemption through a movement language that shifts between the elements of kapa haka and contemporary Maori dance.

​This season Hawaiki TŪ brings a new version of their renowned show Te Manawa which tells the love story of Koru and Te Mauri, two young lovers from opposing iwi, bound together by a negotiated truce.

Hawaiki TŪ's annual Matariki Haka Theatre Production combines kapa haka, Māori Movement, Contemporary theatre, Storytelling and Music into a unique Māori performance. Te Manawa has become the single most popular work in Hawaiki TU’s repertoire, attracting sell-out audiences whenever it is performed. This season will be celebrated with a Tour to Tāmaki Makaurau, Waikato, Tauranga and Rotorua.

He kākano ahau i ruia mai i Rangiātea - I am a seed which was sewn in the heavens of Rangiatea. In the significance of whakapapa and birthright, Hawaiki TŪ honor their inter-generational connections through the form of Haka Theatre. He onamata te tuarongo, he anamata te whatitoka, he atua te tāhūhū, heoi anö te tangata he pou whakairo, he tukutuku whakairi körero. Na: Ranginui Rikirangi-Thomas.

KURAWAKA 2014 ‘Kurawaka’ is known in Māori mythology as the sacred site where mankind was fashioned from kokowai, the red soil that is prevalent in the region. The creation story involves Tāne - the pro creator of mankind and of all the creatures of the forest - who creates the first woman, Hineahuone. It draws on the parallel concerns of restoring the earth’s environment and strengthening mankind’s spiritual connection to the land.

Hawaiki TŪ's annual Matariki Haka Theatre Production combines kapa haka, Māori Movement, Contemporary theatre, Storytelling and Music into a unique Māori performance. This year Hawaiki TŪ performed Te Manawa as part of the Auckland Council Matariki Festival. With a completely sold out season we were fortunate for the overwhelming support throughout Aotearoa and am looking forward to a National tour in 2016.