What is TAHI?
TAHI - New Zealand Festival of Solo Performance showcases Aotearoa's most innovative solo performance. Our biennial festival gathers soloists from around the nation, and beyond – from established to emerging practitioners – to present work, collaborate and make connections across the industry. The festival provides opportunities for practitioners to extend the life of their solo performance work, to develop new work, to share practice, and to network through an integrated programme of performance, workshops, and forums.
Our Kaupapa.
The kaupapa of TAHI is to provide a platform to bring together, celebrate and sustain Aotearoa's solo theatre performers, collaborators and their work. The festival acknowledges our very fine whakapapa of solo performance, how we have found our unique voice(s) in storytelling in this way. This is an opportunity for theatre-makers to share their work and knowledge. For us to develop new audiences for solo work, by providing a degustation menu, a sample of the diverse range of solo shows - autobiography, biography, premieres, emerging artists, physical theatre, the absurd and the impossibly eloquent. TAHI gathers soloists from around the nation – from established to emerging practitioners – to present work, collaborate, and make connections across the industry. Alongside premiering and showcasing solo performance, the Festival provides opportunities for practitioners to extend the life of their work, to up-skill, and to network through an integrated programme of performance, workshops, and forums. The Festival also fosters relationships between tertiary institutions, actor training courses, BATS Theatre and industry professionals.
TAHI sets out to dispel the notion of 'solo' performance. It is a misnomer. Solo performance requires relationships and collaboration.
Kotahitanga – Together as One.
Our Values
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Hauora, people and process are central to our mahi.
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Our work represents Aotearoa, made with, for and by diverse groups of people.
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We are committed to creating equitable career paths and practises.
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We are leaders in improving environmental sustainability in the arts.
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We commit to the inclusion of te ao māori values and principles in our practice.
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Our work is of a high quality and a professional standard.
