Birds with Skymirrors
Carriageworks presents The Australian Premiere of BIRDS WITH SKYMIRRORS, Choreographed by Lemi Ponifasio on his company, Mau, in Bay 17, Carriageworks, Redfern. MAU is a dance/theatre Company based in Auckland, New Zealand, and led by Samoan, Lemi Ponifasio who presented BIRDS WITH SKYMIRRORS at Carriageworks. This international company were last in Sydney as part of the 2010 Sydney Festival with “TEMPEST: without a body” Mr Ponifasio does not willingly use the word dance, or, even theatre, to describe his work, he prefers ‘karanga”, which means “a genealogical prayer, a ceremony,a poetic space.” He wishes to activate the space to create…