Jul 6, 2018
Hannah Tasker-Poland and Gareth Okan in Rotunda, New Zealand Dance Company, May 2015. © John McDermott.
The earlier sections reveal the youth of the men who will eventually join the war. They engage with each other in a sleight of hand game with the conductor’s ceremonial mace. Then the men and women dance together and the world looks rosy. But, when the four men perform a kind of Maori haka, we get an inkling of what might happen as time passes. The women grieve as the men leave for war.
