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Te Kārohirohi Lecture

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Louise Pōtiki-Bryant and Te Ahukaramū Charles Royal share with us their performance project, Te Kārohirohi (The Light Dances).

Louise Pōtiki-Bryant is one of New Zealand's most exciting Māori artists. She has been widely praised for her work as a choreographer with the Atamira Dance Collective. Louise is of Ngāi Tahu whakapapa (genealogy). Louise has a Bachelor of Performing and Screen Arts with a major in contemporary dance and a Bachelor of Arts with a major in Māori studies. She has been a guest lecturer at Eastern Institute of Technology, Unitec School of Performing and Screen Arts, The University of Otago, and the Otago Polytechnic School of Art.

Te Ahukaramū Charles Royal is a musician and researcher who belongs to Ngāti Raukawa, Marutūahu, and Ngā Puhi. He is a graduate of the Victoria University School of Music, where he completed a Bachelor of Music with a composition major. His masters thesis was on traditional Māori song poetry, and his doctoral dissertation, completed in 1998, was on whare tapere – traditional houses of storytelling, music, dance, games, and more. Charles composes music for orchestral instruments, composes mōteatea, and is an accomplished song writer. His music can be found on a number of recordings including Tohu: Mauriora. He is the inaugural Artistic Director of Ōrotokare: Art, Story, Motion – a charitable trust established to advance the ideas in his doctoral dissertation and to create the first modern whare tapere.