| |  | | Seasons Greetings to our circus family and friends | Phew! 2021 - What a year huh? We hope everyone is doing well. It has been heartening seeing all of our various communities rising to the challenges we’ve been facing collectively. Things are still humming away in the circus world, and with the new traffic light system in effect there are still lots of opportunities for us to develop circus engagement for everyone. Read on to explore our newsletter in English and Te Reo Māori.
For more information on how the traffic light system works for NZ circus, head to our resources page for more information: https://www.anzca.co.nz/covid-19. Committee minutes for members: https://www.anzca.co.nz/MembersOnly ANZCA UPDATE We’re pleased to say our newly formed committee has integrated well and is making plans in exciting new areas of interest in 2022, as well as building on the amazing mahi passed on to us. There is a great sense of support for each other, even as we seek to balance out our own personal and professional lives while volunteering time to ANZCA. We’re encouraged by the feedback we’ve been getting from the circus community - so keep it coming folks :) If you’d like an insight into our committee meetings there are minutes and notes available to members by clicking the button below. EDUCATION Thanks to expressions of interest and enthusiasm from the circus community, a circus in schools sub group of ANZCA has emerged with the intention to promote and develop circus in schools and curriculum integration into the primary and tertiary sector. If you are interested in being involved, share resources, or be willing to advocate for our community, we’re very keen to hear from you so please get in touch. |  | | HISTORY One of our committee members came across this beautiful painting in the Christchurch Art Gallery recently and we’re super-curious to know more. It is entitled Circus, Night (c. 1955) by Juliet Peter (1915-2010). Check it out! Do you have any more information or stories about this painting or Wirth’s Circus? |  | Looking out from her Wellington workplace window one day in December 1948, Juliet Peter saw five elephants walking slowly down the street. Seizing a pencil and sketchbook, she left the School Journal offices where she worked as an illustrator, followed the elephants and the accompanying circus entourage and drew as their giant tent was raised. She also attended a performance before the circus left three weeks later. Two of Peter’s circus-themed designs were published as School Journal covers in 1950 and she returned to her circus sketches after studying lithography in London in 1951 and 1953, creating this and a related daytime print. https://www.nfsa.gov.au/latest/wirths-circus-home-movies EVENTS BELLE - A new immersive work by Movement of the Human www.movementofthehuman.com/artists#/performance-of-air |  | Belle is a multidisciplinary work that collides 4 contemporary dancers and 4 aerialists with light architecture and sound design. Belle has been a project in development over the last 4 years, slowed down of course by Covid but this work has never been in a rush. It has just completed a 4 week development residency in Ōtautahi, Christchurch, at the Christchurch Circus Center, thanks to funding from CNZ and The Ministry of Culture and Heritage. And it is currently on track to finally premiere at the Aotearoa New Zealand Festival Of the Arts in Wellington in February 2022. ANZCA board member, Jenny Ritchie, shapes the aerial choreography and apparatus design while Malia Johnston shapes the contemporary dance components. But together with AV designer Rowan Pierce and composer Eden Mulholland, the four of them have collaboratively designed a truly unique work. In this work, the audience is freed from the theater seat and taken into an environment where the walls melt away, light is channeled from beyond the performance space creating the effect of new dimensions, with live sound immersing the audience further into a sensory experience unique to Belle. https://www.festival.nz/events/all/belle/ HAUS OF YOLO By Dust Palace Prepare to delve deep into the inner sanctum of fashion label; “HAUS of YOLO” in an exhilarating experiment in circus and rapid-fire on-stage costuming making. Welt Couture and the Sexy Love Puppet circus artistes welcome you to enter and become part of the pseudo choreographed chaos-orgy of the YOLO sewing room. A visually stunning cabaret of fashion and art, desperately trying to mean something. Who will get creative control? Will the costumes be complete before the act goes on? Will they stay in one piece? Welt Couture takes you to the sensuous side of fashion, balancing the dark arts and modern middle-class slavery. https://www.rightroyal.co.nz/shows/haus-of-yolo/ MĀORI AND PASIFIKA CIRCUS Kanohi Kitea Presentation Forum
Monday August 9th 2021 was the second day of an event called Kanohi Kitea, which means a face that is seen. This event was put on in collaboration mainly between Circability and Te Roopu Taurima. A presentation forum was held at Circability’s central headquarters, where many people from different Māori/Pasifika and Community/Social Circus organisations gave powerpoint presentations about who they are, and what they do. Among them was Dr Te Ahukaramū Charles Royal, giving a rich kōrero about Te Whare Tapere, the ancient Māori arts of entertainment and recreation. The parallels of the activities described with Circus disciplines were uncanny. |  | (Kai te mahi a Dr Te Ahukaramū Charles Royal tōhona whakaaturaka e pā ana ki Te Whare Tapere, i te tari matua o Circability, Tāmaki Makaurau) For example, pouturu, poutoti, pou tokoraki, or Māori stilts, used both for entertainment and walking over difficult swamp terrain. Also a māori swing, which is a rope on top of a pole designed to swing around in circles, like a Māori aerial apparatus, pictured below: |  | There were also multiple group games designed to increase fitness, such as Matau, Mauī, which involves a circle of people holding sticks vertically, and moving to their companions’ stick whilst leaving their own, either left or right, hence the name. |  | Mū Tōrere, an ancient Māori board game based on astrology, which involves two players/teams, four pieces each on a nine-space board, and is about one player ultimately trapping the other. This could be played either in two-person board format, or with eight people in a circle, each having their spots clearly marked for quick movement. |  | (Wiremu Sarich demonstrating Mū Tōrere with Kahuraki Bronsson-George at Northland Circus headquarters, Whangārei) Last but not least, the legendary poi, which were designed to increase wrist strength, flexibility and coordination. Historically they were used in group kapahaka performances, and are still to this day, and have since developed into many different forms, including a visual flow toy at Circus festivals. Original poi were made using materials sourced from the whenua, mainly harakeke, and the bags, called kii, were originally used to carry rock weights to help warriors train for war. Modern poi are made using industrial materials, and can be decorated with various colours, fabrics, designs, even programmable LED lights. All in all, the Kanohi Kitea presentation, and the workshops that followed it, have shown that ancient Māori games of Te Whare Tapere share many features with European Circus performing arts of the western world. |  | https://www.homeofpoi.com/us/lessons/teach/history-culture/poi-history/history-maori-poi-in-new-zealand SPOTLIGHT This year was an exciting year for circus youth across Aotearoa. In May we started off with New Zealand’s first-ever Youth Circus Festival in Auckland. The festival entailed a full weekend of fun Circus workshops. This was a new opportunity to mix with other youth from the community outside of our usual studios or groups. The youth show on Saturday evening was a special highlight. |  | On Sunday we spent the morning with a looooong discussion about how to make Circus more visible and accessible for youth. A group of enthusiastic people that wanted to create something new had formed itself. A few months after that, we had our first get-together as Circ.Us in Waipu. Another day full of circus jamming, fun and a great chance to get to know each other a little better. We decided on a name: Circ.Us. We think this name really says what circus is made of: Community. Us connecting and sharing the beautiful energy with each other makes circus the wonderful thing that it is. However, with starting this youth group we were also faced with the challenge of finding communication and decision making methods. We now communicate using Signal as a platform and we make decisions through voting together in our meetings. We decided to meet monthly over zoom and every term in person, rotating between Whangarei/ Dargaville, Waipu, and Auckland. |  | TOur next focus as Circ.Us is speaking with Rachael Trotman, who is conducting research on Social Circus employment pathways for youth over the next 6 months. We are also looking forward to the Youth Circus Festival 2022 which will be held in Waipu. INTERNATIONAL NEWS Aotearoa Symposium of Circus Thinking, October 2021. Our inaugural Symposium of Circus Thinking was an immense success! Incredible and informative speakers from all over the world were gathered into our time zone and local attendance was at 3 times what we'd anticipated and the feedback was incredible. "... valuable information, great presenters, and well organized. I appreciate it. Also making it financially accessible was a great move towards a truly inclusive event." "Absolutely loved this event, and it was especially great to have while in lockdown. " This years' symposium ws organized and funded by Eve Gordon of The Dust Palace as her swansong from her six years on ANZCA's steering committee. "I thought Eve did an excellent job organizing! I think it’s an event that could really grow in the coming years." We'd like to thank Eve for her contribution to this event and to put the call out to anyone who would like to contribute to future symposiums! In other somewhat shocking news, the legendary Circus OZ recently announced it will be winding up the company. “The iconic Australian company is to cease trading following the Board’s failure to secure the agreement of Company Members to a radical overhaul of existing governance structures” Arts Hub Australia: https://www.artshub.com.au/news/news/circus-oz-to-wind-up-2519744/ THAT’S US FOLKS! Keen to get involved and become a member of ANZCA? Follow the link here: https://www.anzca.co.nz/join Merry Christmas and a very happy New Year. Bring on 2022!
|  | TE REO MĀORI Kā mihi o te kaupeka kirihimete ki tā tātou whānau maninirau. Aue! 2021 - He aha te tau?! Ko te tūmanako kai te pai te katoa. I harikoa te kākau ki te kite i kā momo hapori katoa e eke ana ki kā wero kua pā ki a mātou. Kai te hamene tTonu kā mea i roto i te ao maninirau, ā, i te whai mana o te punaha rama waka hou he maha tonu kā huarahi mō tātou ki te whakawhanake i te mahi maninirau ki te katoa. Kai konei ētehi atu kōrero mō kā here kōwheori, haere mai ki tā mātou whāraki rauemi mō ētehi atu kōrero: https://www.anzca.co.nz/covid-19. ANZCA INĀIANEI E harikoa ana mātou ki te kī kua pai te whakauru o tā mātou hapori hou, kai te whakatakoto mahere i roto i kā wāhaka whakaihiihi hou i te tau 2022, me te haka i ruka i kā mahi whakamīharo kua tukuna mai ki a mātou. He tino tautoko tētehi ki tētehi, ahakoa e whai ana tātou ki te whakataurite i ō tātou ake oraka whaiaro me ō tātou oraka kaio i a tātou e tuku wā ki ANZCA. Kai te whakatenatenahia mātou e kā urupare kua riro mai i a mātou mai i te hapori maninirau - nō reira, haere mai e te iwi. Mēnā kai te pīraki koe ki te mārama ki ō mātou hui hapori kai reira kā minitī me kā kōrero e wātea ana ki kā tākata mā te pātene kai raro nei. MĀTAURAKA He mihi ki kā whakaaturaka o te hiahia me te hīkaka o te hapori maninirau, kua ara ake he hapori iti o te ANZCA i roto i kā kura me te whakaaro ki te whakatairaka me te whakawhanake maninirau i roto i kā kura me te whakauru marautaka ki te rākai tuatahi me te rākai tuatoru. Mēnā kai te pīraki koe ki te whai wāhi, ki te tiri rauemi, ki te pīraki rānei ki te tohe mō tō tātou hapori, kai te pīraki mātou ki te whakaroko mai i a koe nā me waea atu. | | TĀHUHU KŌRERO I kitea e tētehi o ō mātou tākata o te hapori tēnei tā ataahua i roto i te Whare Toi o Ōtautahi i mua tata nei, ka tino hiahia mātou ki te mōhio atu. Ko Circus, Night te ikoa (c. 1955) nā Juliet Peter (1915-2010). Tirohia! Kai a koe ētehi atu kōrero, kōrero rānei mō tēnei tā, Wirths rānei? | | I tāhana titiro atu i tāhana matapihi o te wāhi mahi i Te Whanganui a Tara i tētehi rā i te Hakihea 1948, ka kite a Juliet Peter i kā arewhana tokorima e haere puhoi ana i te tiriti. Ka mau ia i te pene me te pukapuka tuhi, ka wehe atu ia i kā tari o te Kura Journal i mahi ai ia hāi kaiwhakaahua, ka whai i kā arewhana me te tira porowhita e haere tahi ana me te tuhi i tō rātou whare nui e whakaarahia ana. I haere ano ia ki tētehi whakaaturaka i mua i te weheka atu o te maninirau e toru wiki i muri mai. E rua o kā tauira porowhita porowhita a Peter i tāia hai uhi mō te Kura Journal i te tau 1950, ka hoki mai anō ia ki āhana huahua porowhita i muri i tāhana ako i te tuhika tuhi i Ranana i te tau 1951 me te 1953, ka hakaia tēnei me tētehi tārua mō te awatea. https://natlib.govt.nz/records/22396707 https://www.nfsa.gov.au/latest/wirths-circus-home-movies KĀ WHAKAMAHI BELLE - He mahi rūmaki hou nā Movement of the Human www.movementofthehuman.com/artists#/performance-of-air | | Ko Belle he mahi maha e tukika ana e whā kā kaikanikani o nāianei, kā kaiwhakatere rereraki whā, te hoahoaka marama me te hoahoa taki. He kaupapa whanaketaka a Belle i roto i kā tau e whā kua pahure ake nei, i whakaroahia e kōwheori ekari kāhore anō kia tere te mahi. Kātahi anō ka oti i a ia he whare noho whanaketaka whā wiki ki Ōtautahi, ki te Whare Takiwā Maninirau o Ōtautahi, nā te pūtea a Toi Aotearoa me Te Manatū Taoka. I tēnei wā kai te huarahi ka puta tuatahi ki te Huihuika Toi o Aotearoa ki Te Whanganui-a-Tara hai te Hui-takuru 2022. He kaiwhakahaere o ANZCA, ko Jenny Ritchie te haka i kā mahi a te raki me te hoahoa taputapu, ko Malia Johnston te haka i ka wāhaka kanikani o nāianei. Ekari i te taha o te kaihoahoa AV a Rowan Pierce me te kaitito waiata a Eden Mulholland, kua mahitahi rāua tokowhā i tētehi mahi tino ahurei. I roto i tēnei mahi, ka wetekina te huka whakaroko mai i te tūru whare tapere ka haria ki tētehi taiao e rewa ai kā pakitara, ka rere te marama mai i tua atu o te wāhi whakaari e haka ana i kā ahuataka hou, me te oro ora e ruku ana i te huka whakaroko ki roto i tētehi wheako mōhio ahurei ki a Belle. Mēnā kai Te Whanganui-a-Tara koe i te timataka o te tau hou pākehā, kātahi koe ka haere ki te wāhi TSB, ki tēnei whakaaturaka tuatahi, Hui-tākuru 26 - Maehe 6th 2022. https://www.festival.nz/events/all/belle/ HAUS O YOLO Nā te Dust Palace Whakaritea ki te ruku hohonu ki roto i te wāhi matua o roto o te tapaka ahua; "HAUS o YOLO" i roto i te whakamātautau whakaihīhī i roto i te maninirau me te tere-ahi i ruka i te atamira haka kākahu. Ko Welt Couture me kā kaimaninirau o Sexy Love Puppets e mihi ana ki a koe ki te kuhu mai ki te whakauru ki roto i te kūnakunaku o te whare tuitui YOLO. He whakakahau tino ataahua o te ahua me te toi, e kana ana ki te whai tikaka. Ko wai ka whiwhi mana auaha? Ka oti kā kakahu i mua i te haere o te mahi? Ka noho tonu rātou ki tētehi wāhaka? Ka kawea koe e Welt Couture ki te taha hihiko o te ahua, ki te whakataurite i kā mahi toi pouri me kā mahi taurekareka o te karaehe o waeka. https://www.rightroyal.co.nz/shows/haus-of-yolo/ MANINIRAU MĀORI ME PASIFIKA Kanohi Kitea Kōrerorero Whakaaturaka Ko te Rāhina te iwa o Hereturikōka 2021 te rā tuarua o te huihuika e kīa nei ko Kanohi Kitea. I mahia tēnei kaupapa i ruka i te mahitahi a Circability me Te Roopu Taurima. I tū tētehi huihuika whakaaturaka ki te tari matua o Circability, he maha kā tākata mai i kā rākai Māori/Pasifika me te Hapori/Social Circus i tuku whakaaturaka powerpoint e pā ana ki a rātou, me ō rātou mahi. Ko tētehi kaikōrero Dr Te Ahukaramū Charles Royal, kōrerorerotia ia mō Te Whare Tapere, kā toi Māori tawhito o whakaaturaka me whakakahau. Ko ka ahuataka o kā mahi e whakaahuahia ana me kā tikaka a Maninirau he mea whakamīharo. | | (Kai te mahi a Dr Te Ahukaramū Charles Royal tōhona whakaaturaka e pā ana ki Te Whare Tapere, i te tari matua o Circability, Tāmaki Makaurau) Hai tauira, kā pouturu, kā poutoti, kā pou tokoraki rānei, hai mahi whakakahau me te hikoi i ruka i kā whenua repo uaua. He piu moari anō, he taura kai ruka ake o te pou i hakaia hai piu porowhita, pēnei i te taputapu rereraki Māori, e whakaahuatia ana i raro nei: |  |  | Piu Moari. Rauemi: Angas, George French 1822-1886: The New Zealanders Illustrated He maha anō kā tākaro ā hapori i hakaia hai whakapakari tinana, pēnei i a Matau, Mauī, he porowhita o te huka e pupuri rākau poutū ana, me te neke ki te rākau a ō rātou hoa ka waiho i ō rātou ake, mauī, matau rānei, nō reira te ikoa. | | Ko Mū Tōrere, he tākaro papa o nehe i ahu mai i te wheturaki, e rua ka kaitākaro/hapori, e whā kā wāhaka o ia papa ki ruka i te papa mokowhiti e iwa, me te mea ka mau tētēhi kaitākaro ki tētehi. Ka taea te mahi i roto i te whakatakotoraka papa-rua-tākata, tokowaru tākata rānei i roto i te porowhita, kai ia takata he tohutohu ki te neke tere. | | (Kai te whakamahi Mū Tōrere a Wiremu Sarich rāua ko Kahuraki Bronsson-George ki te tari Maninirau Northland, Whangārei) Ko te mea whakamutuka, ko te poi rokonui, i hakaia hai whakanui i te kaha o te rikarika, te kāwari me te ruruku. I kā wā o mua, i whakamahia i roto i kā mahi kapahaka, ā, kāi te noho tonu tae noa mai ki tēnei rā, ā, mai i tērā wā kua whanakehia ki kā momo rerekē, tae atu ki tētehi taoka tākaro rere ataata i kā huihuika Maninirau. He mea haka te poi taketake mai i te whenua, ko te harakeke te nuika, ā, ko kā pūtea e kīa nei ko te kī, i whakamahia i te tuatahi ki te kawe i kā taumaha toka hai āwhina i kā toa ki te whakakuku mō te whawhai. https://www.homeofpoi.com/us/lessons/teach/history-culture/poi-history/history-maori-poi-in-new-zealand He mea haka te poi o nāianei mā te whakamahi i kā rawa ahumahi, ka taea te whakapaipai ki kā momo tae, papaka, hoahoa, tae noa ki kā rama rama LED ka taea. Ko te katoa, ko te whakaaturaka o Konohi Kitea, me kā awheawhe i muri mai, kua kitea he maha ka ahuataka o kā toi Māori o mua o Te Whare Tapere ki kā mahi toi a te Maninirau Pākeha o te ao uru. Tuhipoka: Ka whakakapi a K i te diagraph ng, i tuhia ki te reo o Kāi Tahu. WHAKAMAHI He tau whakahihiri tēnei mō kā rakatahi maninirau puta noa i Aotearoa. I te marama o Haratua i timata mātou ki te Huihuika Rakatahi tuatahi o Aotearoa ki Tāmaki Makaurau. Ko te huihuika he wiki katoa o kā awheawhe Maninirau kahau. He wāhi hou tēnei ki te uru atu ki ētehi atu rakatahi mai i te hapori i waho atu o ō mātou whare wānaka, hapori hapori rānei. Ko te whakaaturaka rakatahi i te ahiahi o te Rāhoroi he mea whakahirahira. |  | I te Rātapu i noho mātou i te ata me te roa kōrero me pēwhea te haka Maninirau kia kitea, kia wātea hoki mō kā taiohi. Ko te hapori o kā tākata hīkaka e hiahia ana ki te haka i tētehi mea hou kua puta ake. I ētehi marama i muri mai i tērā, i hui tuatahi mātou hai Circ.Us ki Waipu. Ko tētehi atu rā ki tonu i te tākaro maninirau, kahau me te whai wāhi nui ki te mōhio atu tētehi ki tētehi. I whakatauhia e mātou tētahi ikoa: Circ.Us. Ki tā mātou whakaaro ko tēnei ikoa e kī ana he aha te mahi Maninirau: Hapori. Mā te hono me te tiri i te kaha ataahua ki a rātou anō, ko Maninirau te mea whakamīharo. | | KARERE O TE AO Huihuika - Eve Huihuika Aotearoa o kā Whakaaro Maninirau, Whirika-a-Nuku 2021. He tino akitu tā mātou Huihuika tuatahi o kā Whakaaro Maninirau! Ko kā kaikōrero whakamīharo me kā kōrero mai i kā wā katoa o te ao i kohia ki roto i tō mātou rohe, ā, ko te taeka mai o te rohe e toru kā wā i rite ki tā mātou i tūmanako ai, he mea whakamīharo kā urupare. "... ka kōrero utu nui, kā kaikauwhau pai, me te pai o te whakarite. Ka mihi au. Ko te whakawhiwhika pūtea ki te taha pūtea he mea tino pai ki te whakauru ki tētehi huihuika." "I tino aroha ki tēnei huihuika, he mea tino pai ki te noho i te wā e mau ana." I tēnei tau ko te kurutēteka o kā tau i whakaritea, i utua e Eve Gordon o Te Dust Palace hai waiata whakamutuka mai i ōhona tau e ono i te hapori whakahaere a ANZCA. "I whakaaro ahau he pai te mahi a Eve ki te whakahaere! Ki tāhaku whakaaro he huihuika tera e tino tupu ake i kā tau kai te heke mai." Ka mihi mātou ki a Eve i tāhana koha ki tēnei huihuika me te tuku i te karaka ki te huka e pīraki ana ki te koha ki kā kūititaka a muri ake nei! I roto i kā kōrero ohorere i kī tata nei te Circus OZ ka huri te kamupene. "Ko te kamupene rokonui o Ahitereiria me whakamutu te hokohoko i muri i te koreka o te Hapori ki te whakapūmau i te whakaāetaka a kā Tākata o te Kamupene ki te whakatikatika i kā hakaka whakahaere o nāianei" - Pokapū Toi Ahitereiria: https://www.artshub.com.au/news/news/circus-oz-to-wind-up-2519744/ KUA MUTU MĀTOU, E TE WHĀNAU! Meri Kirihimete me te tau hou pākehā tino harikoa. Haere mai 2022! | | |
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