“Nightmares. Human-data. Drowning worlds.”

TADRA, and other visions is a collision of multiple realities at once.
A warping and distortion of the dreams of the ancestors of Moana nui a Kiwa, and the nightmares of the realms that have been opened in a post/current-colonial occupation. TADRA, and other visions follows the translation of human-data and body-stories of Moana Nui a Kiwa as intrinsic and inherited knowledge is translated into ‘the cloud’. 

Using real-time motion capture and live performance, TADRA, and other visions swallows the questions of body-memory vs technological advancement and contemplates the repercussions of replacing Moana Nui a Kiwa’s land, water, people and relationships with globally accessible digital data-banks. 

TADRA, and other visions is a show-in-development between core collaborators Jahra Wasasala, Henry Lai-Pyne and Oliva ‘Spewer’ Luki, supported by CONJAH and PSEUDO with it’s seed development showing commissioned by Chunky Move Company as a part of their Activators 10 2023 programme. The TADRA, and other visions showing was presented by Naarm (Melbourne)’s inaugural FRAME: Biennial Dance Festival in 2023.