Wairea Company

• Indigenous performing art • Theatre • Moving body art installations• Music & Dance

Wairea Company led by director Rangipo Ihakara. Wairea is a collaborative performing art and theatre company. A home for Indigenous creatives, a safe space for children and adults to create, to share, to network and to active new spaces here in The Bay of plenty, Aotearoa and around the world through art, theatre and Indigenous cultural music and dance
Photo by - Seb charles photography

Theatre projects 2024

Moving body art installations 2024

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The Voices in the Shadows featuring Tame Iti

Aronui Indigenous arts festival 2024
Photo by - Seb charles (photography)

Wairea Company proudly presents ‘The Voices in the Shadows’ at the Aronui Indigenous festival Directed by Rangipo Ihakara. This indigenous musical explores the journey from darkness to light, offering cultural insights and truths about colonization, language, and cultural suppression. It reflects on historical experiences while fostering hope for the future through music, contemporary dance, and the voices of Māori, Pacific and Palestinian cultures.

Heipukarea - an evening to celebrate Atua wahine curated by Hana Tapiata

September 20 2024

Heipūkarea launched with an event on Friday 20 September, activated by te ahi kōmau, the geysers, ngāwhā and geothermal whenua of Tūhourangi Ngāti Wāhiao & Ngāti Whakaue at Te Whakarewarewa.

The exhibition was a multi-sensory, multi-medium experience of mātauranga, curated by Hana Tapiata featuring 15 new taonga and works dedicated to atua wāhine and tuakana, pre-existing taonga to support their birth into te ao mārama. 15 new kōawa feeding into the puna mātauranga that has long been flowing, to assist in our recalibration to our Indigenous ways of being

Wairea company presented a moving body art installation of our Atua wahine

•Hinenuitepō •Wainuiatea •Hineraukatauri

• Hinerehia

Haki Ātea - By Tame Iti (Waitangi 2024)

Feb 06 2024

An activation moving body art performance and Hīkoi
Choreography • Rangipo Ihakara •Seb Charles Photography • Location Waitangi Treaty Grounds

Tàwharautia Mataatua - A moving body musical installation 2023

December 2023

Featuring Tame Iti, NZSO, Laughton Kora, Maisey Rika, Whirimako Black, Tom Rainey and Performers from Kapa Haka accross the Bay of plenty • CHOREOGRAPHY • Rangipo Ihakara