Bella Waru (Ngati Tukorehe, Te Ati Awa, European) is a performer, bodyworker and storyteller living, listening and learning on sacred, unceded Kulin lands. A diasporic Indigenous sovereign, queer, fluid, femme occupation. Waru navigates spaces, sensations and states of being through movement, voice, composition, writings, performance and facilitation. They create to honour, realise and reimagine their experiences, emerging from the body as a vessel for personal, ancestral and environmental memory, and as an initiator of resurgence//healing//transmutation//incantation//communication//clearing.
Where am I among the mess? Stolen land. Childhood home. The past (15yrs & yesterday). In the room with the spare things and the ‘things that can be dealt with later’. With the birds (here and not here). With myself (here and not here).
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