Our moving bodies as waka/vaka: Explorations through Ori Paraparau | Body Conversations

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Choreographic Practices Pub Date : 2023-12-01 DOI:10.1386/chor_00067_1

Syrai-Tiare Taumihau

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Abstract

Ori Paraparau | Body Conversations is an embodied talanoa that engages in a reciprocal and shared vā. Being both a choreographic movement task and Mana Moana methodology, Ori Paraparau allows Moana dancers to warm up their minds, bodies, and the vā they share with one another. The idea of ‘recentring’ ourselves (a similar philosophy to decolonizing) is strong here as it better reflects our hyphened identities and the way we view and experience the world. Within the task we can see our moving bodies as waka/vaka that holds our histories, stories and experiences but also link us back to our ancestors. Our Moana identities are complex and vary between person to person, experiences and stories of our whakapapa bringing us to where we are today. Themes of belonging, childhood memories, returning to self, and the complexities of individual Moana cultural identities are explored and investigated within a comfortable environment. Through engaging in Ori Paraparau we may share, exchange, dance, cry and laugh our way through it whilst also building, nurturing and strengthening the vā.

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我们作为瓦卡/瓦卡的活动身体：通过 Ori Paraparau | 身体对话进行探索

Ori Paraparau | Body Conversations 是一种参与互惠和共享 vā 的体现性 Talanoa。Ori Paraparau 既是一项编舞动作任务，也是 Mana Moana 的方法，它让 Moana 舞者为自己的思想、身体和彼此分享的 vā 热身。在这里，"重新定位 "自己的理念（类似于非殖民化的理念）非常强烈，因为它更好地反映了我们的连字符身份以及我们看待和体验世界的方式。在这项任务中，我们可以将我们活动的身体视为 "瓦卡"（waka/vaka），它承载着我们的历史、故事和经历，同时也将我们与祖先联系在一起。我们的 "莫阿娜 "身份是复杂的，因人而异，我们的 "瓦卡帕"（whakapapa）的经历和故事将我们带到了今天。我们将在舒适的环境中探索和研究归属感、童年记忆、回归自我以及莫阿纳文化身份的复杂性等主题。通过参与 Ori Paraparau 活动，我们可以分享、交流、跳舞、哭泣和欢笑，同时还可以建立、培养和加强 vā。

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期刊介绍： Choreographic Practices operates from the principle that dance embodies ideas and can be productively enlivened when considered as a mode of critical and creative discourse. This double-blind peer-reviewed journal provides a platform for sharing choreographic practices, critical inquiry and debate. Placing an emphasis on processes and practices over products, this journal seeks to engender dynamic relationships between theory and practice, choreographer and scholar, so that these distinctions may be shifted and traversed. Choreographic Practices will encompass a wide range of methodologies and critical perspectives such that interdisciplinary processes in performance can be understood as they intersect with other territories in the arts and beyond (for example, cultural studies, psychology, phenomenology, geography, philosophy and economics). In this way, the journal will open up the nature and scope of dance practice as research and draw together diverse bodies of knowledge and ways of knowing to illuminate an emerging and vibrant research area.