Collaborators
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Paddy Free - Composer
Born and raised Melbourne, Aust. Raised in Campbells Bay, Auckland. Swedish, Irish and Scottish Whakapapa
Joined Atamira 2003 when I wrote the soundtrack for Hail by Jack Gray and Te Aroha Me Te Mamae by Louise Potiki Bryant
Trained Classical Piano 1980-1983
Career achievements Member of Pitch Black 1995-present, Producer of "Inside the Dub Plates" - Salmonella Dub, 2002
Highlights with Atamira Making the Ngai Tahu 32 Soundtrack
Favourite Atamira show Ngai Tahu32, For the ambient-trippy-otherworldly effect of the combination of soundtrack, staging, choreography, lighting and video design.
Leisure Activities Walking on West Coast beaches, Listening to music.
Essential Items MacBook Pro, Headphones
Travel Tips Getting you, and all your stuff, through the X-Ray/Security point is a choreography - know it well!
Dream Tour Any tour to other parts of the world is its own reward, seeing new places and experiencing new things.
Signature Move/style Heavy sub-bass, Dub delays
Atamira is Choice!!!
Vanda Karolczak - Production Manager and Designer
Born Montreal, Canada. English, Polish, French, Welsh.
Trained University of New Hampshire in Theatre and Communications, Concordia Univeristy Honours in Scenography (Design), Scene Painting internship Banff School of Fine Arts
Atamira Highlights Marae performances at Otakou for Ngai Tahu 32 - Ralph Hotere came to the show, Maui Arts Centre - our biggest crowd and venue.
Leisure Activities Coaching my surf livesaving kids at Piha, being out and about in Waitakere, Travel.
Essential Items Decent tea and biscuits for breaks.
Dream Tour Hawaii - hoping to relive that one. Next one would be Cervantes Festival in Mexico.
Signature Move Multi-tasking and stamina
Waimihi Hotere - Kaiarahi - Performer/Dramaturg
Born Born on the side of Maungawhau. Raised amongst Taniwha from the King Country and the mighty Noota!
Trained Toi Whakaari NZ Drama School.
Atamira Highlights Big pineapple cocktails poolside at the Royal Hawaiian with Jack and Tai.
Leisure Activities Watch live gigs, eat and drink with cool people and baking with my son Mahutonga.
Travel Tips Carry a lip gloss, mascara and blush of some sort at all times. Always know where to get a good cocktail.
Signature Move Haka.
Atamira is One kick ass experience you'll never forget - on and off the stage!
Richard Nunns - Musician/composer, adviser
Dr Richard Nunns has been described as one of New Zealand's most remarkable musicians. A Pakeha (European New Zealander) who has become the living authority on Taonga Puoro (Maori traditional instruments) his journey has required a great deal of respect, perseverance and sensitivity - characteristics that inevitably emerge in the depths of his own music. He has a long history of personal commitment to researching and presenting/ performing the traditional musical instruments of the Maori, and to organising this body of knowledge into a form which is immediately understandable to people in general, particularly Maori who have lost contact with such knowledge. Since Richard first began public performances on Taonga Puoro, he has developed an amazing international and local profile, both with the diversity of his recorded work, along with performing with a wide variety of people in many differing settings and circumstances. From WOMADS to World Expo, Contemporary awards at the Vodafone Music Awards, to composition for Gallipoli, Richard Nunns is an astonishing and celebrated artist.
Becca Wood - Print and web design
Becca has been designing for the arts since 1992, after graduating from Wellington Polytechnic in Visual Communications. After freelancing in design for a year she pursued her love of dance and trained in contemporary dance and choreography at UNITEC. She enjoys the many possibilities that fall in between both disciplines and has embraced this interdisciplinary thinking as a way of extending the boundaries of both her practices. Her work is inspired by the things that interest her most; colour/light, bodies in motion, deconstruction, minimalism, mundane and the ordinary, old and found objects, typography, photography, contemporary music, contemporary technology, 20th century design.
Kirsten Kemp - Costume designer
Kirsten started at the Otago Polytechnic School of Art in 1997 expecting to finish as a jeweller, but found herself majoring in textiles and graduated in 2000 with a BFA. Her graduating project Tupuna was exhibited within Taiawhio Te Timatanga at Te Papa in 2002. In that year she was also the second artist to receive the Ngai Tahu artist fellowship from Otago Polytechnic School of Art. After two years teaching art, dance and art history at Onehunga High School in Auckland, she and her husband left for Japan. Apart from creating two children while there, she began painting and continues to find inspiration in this medium.
