Avignon: Standing in Time Symphonies of Pain part 2
Standing in Time. texts by Rasha Abbas. Direction, scenography by Lemi Ponifasio; sound design by Lemi Ponifasio (Auckland)
Lemi Ponifasio’s Standing in Time, also the example of a symphony of pain, speaks as well of abused women, the victims of history and colonial genocide. Ponifasio’s context is very different from that of Munyaneza’s because she meditates on the history of colonial oppression in New Zealand. The style of the production is highly informed by the performative culture of everyday rituals, religious ceremonies, celebrations and mourning as practiced by the mauri women from the New Zealand islands. …