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Taiaroa Royal
Taiaroa Royal CF is a New Zealand dancer and choreographer. Royal co-founded the contemporary Māori dance company Okareka with Taane Mete. As a dancer he has performed with New Zealand companies the Royal New Zealand Ballet, Douglas Wright Dance Company, Atamiria and Black Grace. He has choreographed contemporary dance and also music videos including for Evermore and Ardijah, and for the World of Wearable Art (WOW) in Wellington. He is a 2023 recipient of an Arts Foundation of New Zealand Laureate Award.
Royal identifies with the iwi Te Arawa of the Rotorua and Bay of Plenty regions, Ngāti Raukawa, Uenukopako and Kāi Tahu of the South Island. As a teenager at age 15 he won a disco dancing competition in the Bay of Plenty.
Royal is a graduate of the New Zealand School of Dance, finishing in 1984.
Companies he has performed with as a dancer include the Royal New Zealand Ballet, Douglas Wright Dance Company, Human Garden, Commotion Dance Company, Atamiria Dance Company and Black Grace, and he has toured to England, Europe, Australia and America.
In 2007, he started the Ōkāreka Dance Company with Taane Mete. Ōkāreka's 2008 show Tama Ma, premiered at the Tempo Dance Festival, Auckland, won awards and went on to tour New Zealand. It had seasons at the Strut Festival, Perth in November 2010 and The Powerhouse, Brisbane in March 2011. Tama Ma had autobiographical elements and was danced by Royal and Taane Mete. It included choreography by Michael Parmenter and Douglas Wright.
He has choreographed operas for New Zealand Opera.
Some of his choreography is commercial such as music videos for Maree Sheehan, Evermore and Ardijah, and events such as Christmas in the Park in Auckland. For the World of Wearable Art event in Wellington he has choreographed the South Pacific section.
Royal has a teaching practice having taught at the New Zealand School of Dance and Unitec Institute of Technology on the Bachelor of Performing Screen Arts.
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Taiaroa Royal
Taiaroa Royal CF is a New Zealand dancer and choreographer. Royal co-founded the contemporary Māori dance company Okareka with Taane Mete. As a dancer he has performed with New Zealand companies the Royal New Zealand Ballet, Douglas Wright Dance Company, Atamiria and Black Grace. He has choreographed contemporary dance and also music videos including for Evermore and Ardijah, and for the World of Wearable Art (WOW) in Wellington. He is a 2023 recipient of an Arts Foundation of New Zealand Laureate Award.
Royal identifies with the iwi Te Arawa of the Rotorua and Bay of Plenty regions, Ngāti Raukawa, Uenukopako and Kāi Tahu of the South Island. As a teenager at age 15 he won a disco dancing competition in the Bay of Plenty.
Royal is a graduate of the New Zealand School of Dance, finishing in 1984.
Companies he has performed with as a dancer include the Royal New Zealand Ballet, Douglas Wright Dance Company, Human Garden, Commotion Dance Company, Atamiria Dance Company and Black Grace, and he has toured to England, Europe, Australia and America.
In 2007, he started the Ōkāreka Dance Company with Taane Mete. Ōkāreka's 2008 show Tama Ma, premiered at the Tempo Dance Festival, Auckland, won awards and went on to tour New Zealand. It had seasons at the Strut Festival, Perth in November 2010 and The Powerhouse, Brisbane in March 2011. Tama Ma had autobiographical elements and was danced by Royal and Taane Mete. It included choreography by Michael Parmenter and Douglas Wright.
He has choreographed operas for New Zealand Opera.
Some of his choreography is commercial such as music videos for Maree Sheehan, Evermore and Ardijah, and events such as Christmas in the Park in Auckland. For the World of Wearable Art event in Wellington he has choreographed the South Pacific section.
Royal has a teaching practice having taught at the New Zealand School of Dance and Unitec Institute of Technology on the Bachelor of Performing Screen Arts.