Tiaki Kerei

Who I am

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Ko Tiaki Kerei ahau (Ngāti Porou, Ngāti Kahungunu, Te Rarawa, Ngāpuhi). I am a creative Indigenous movement practitioner and caregiver based in Tāmaki Makaurau.​

 

As a choreographer, performer, lecturer, video editor and writer, I explore multicultural directions for restorative connectivity.

 

I work alongside diverse institutions and communities, such as the University of California — Riverside (as Visiting Assistant Professor), University of California — Berkeley (as Artist in Residence at the Asian/Pacific/American Institute), University of California — Los Angeles (as Regent’s Scholar), and as a contributor to the Indigenous Choreographer’s at Riverside Project.

 

My knowledge gathering continues to broaden through ongoing embodied research with Whakamana Creatives at The Auckland Performing Arts Centre (TAPAC). 

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Embodied Activators (Pūngao)

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Embodied Activators means energy and is driven by the revitalisation of connectivity through a range of tools that use voice, body, creative response, physical making and storytelling.​

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Embodied Activators come in short, one-off or longer wānanga /intercultural art- and community-based interventions that unfold the insightful, interpersonal and relational spaces of tikanga Māori and its many interpretive forms of knowing.

 

I can be consulted for a range of outcomes. These include hourly consultation online or in person (in Tāmaki Makaurau) to align with cultural needs and personal development, as well as wānanga for a group of people (ideally 25 max) within timeframes of two-to-three hours. Longer workshops are subject to arrangement.

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