Tēnā koutou katoa. Welcome to this website dedicated to the whare tapere and indigenous performing arts. Here you can obtain information about our work and you can learn more of the whare tapere - pre-European village 'houses' of storytelling, dance, games, music and other entertainments. Each year Ōrotokare convenes a summer whare tapere which is open to the public. This is an opportunity to share our experiments and explorations in whare tapere performance. Our next whare tapere will take place on the 4th of February 2012. To learn more, please see this TVNZ documentary on the whare tapere below. You can also read a new paper called 'New Expressions of Indigeneity Through Whare Tapere'
here.