Rachel Ruckstuhl-Mann
Roto/Matter/Tū/Gather
Tērā
Catchment Listening (Workshop)
Roto/Matter/Tū/Gather
An improvised performance in collaboration with Clare Luiten: Lives, vibes, sensations, triggers, love, junk, pattern. Forces, scales, language, breath, too many/not enough – fast, faster, Fuck. [Kids want me back, longing for… ?, without them is kinda dull]. Is NZ a dessert? Deep landscapes of sea swell, seaweed, smashing. Trying to embrace all. Go to sleep already. M/other. Ground. Centre.
Stay present and alive; the space is singing. What can we pull from the dark when we dream together?
We are dancing with wholes; inner/outer, micro/macro, not/and/yes. We are dancing the pause and the spiral out. We are dancing these moments of ourselves, with each other, with you.
Photography: Jaehwan Lee
Tērā
An improvised performance in collaboration with the catchment of Ōtākaro.
Tērā. There you are. Here we are. This is a listening, a play, a song of found bits and organs in-motion- in-love, as being. This place is a body. My body is an estuary, a terrain. Tērā. There. Now. Then. Koia.
Photography: Owen Spargo
Catchment Listening
A physical training practice towards performance, guided by the catchment of Ōtākaro.
This workshop involved working with objects, moving in dynamic and challenging ways, improvisation, partner work and voice work, including small amounts of sharing/witnessing.
Drawing from somatic movement, contact improvisation, and regenerative practice. This offering was directed towards those who are curious about embodiment, performance, and movement in dialogue with place.
Photography: Janaína Moraes
About the artist
Rachel Ruckstuhl-Mann is a movement artist, choreographer, and researcher rooted in somatic practices, Māori worldviews, and performance art. She works across performance creation, teaching, contact improvisation, and site-responsive work, exploring how bodies, place and cultural narratives intersect in movement. Her performance work engages with whakapapa, ecology, myth, and sensation.