(Tau) Peter Rockford Espiritu manifests safe and creative spaces for “Brown Dance” culture and the arts to thrive and grow equally in the traditional and contemporary expressions. Mr. Espiritu’s focus centers on Indigenous identities and voices in a moving dialogue addressing current local issues of urbanization and globalization. His journey moves towards articulating Pōhuli, indigenization through the creation of his own movement modality and vocabulary reformed into the foundation of a new movement language paradigm for his dance company, Tau Dance Theater (TDT). Established in 1996, (TDT) is a non-profit, 501(c)(3) charitable arts organization.  Mr. Espiritu is the Executive & Artistic Director of TDT, the only professional dance company based in Honolulu founded by a native Hawaiian. The work creates bridges that form connections between communities through arts for health and social change. It re-builds healthy communities where currently there are fracture lines to powerfully draw on those experiences to connect communities-within-communities, bringing people closer together who feel divided or marginalized. Mr. Espiritu is a Western Arts Alliance, Advancing Indigenous Performances - Native Launchpad Recipient, a Dance|USA Artist Fellow and recipient of the Intercultural International Choreographer’s Creation Lab residency at Banff Center for the Creative Arts in Canada.

Specialism: Ballet, Contemporary Dance, Dance, Environment/Conservation/Eco-Embodied/Horticulture, Somatic, Theatre, Indigenous based Movement Practice focused on ancient Hawaiian Ceremony, Spiritualism and Ritual

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