Osborne Shiwan 41 Te Wheke

Credits
  • Pou Auaha / Creative Directors
    Lloyd Osborne, Shabnam Shiwan
  • Kaitautoko / Contributors
    Toaki Okano, Petra Leary
  • Client
    Atamira Dance Company
Description:

Atamira Dance Company is New Zealand’s leading Māori contemporary dance theatre creator.

Te Wheke is a new work, bringing together eight choreographers and dancers, symbolised by the eight tentacles of Te Wheke, The Octopus.

Custom lettering and typography combine with dance expressions to create a sense of rhythm and movement. These are sliced through to create a graphic watery distortion.

Typographic forms fade in and out, interweaving with figures, like seaweed. When used together the typography links the posters together as it overlaps the edges.

Mythologies woven in movement.