Lemi Ponifasio is a director, designer and choreographer of Samoa. He is the founder of MAU Dance Company.
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After creating “I AM MAPUCHE” in 2014 – a dance work created from the trip that Ponifasio made to Temuco during that year, where he was inserted in Mapuche communities – the Samoan returns with a new project to Santiago to Mil;
MAU Mapuche, a ceremony-performance spoken in Mapudungún and Spanish, which includes dance, performance, and which installs in the height of Huelén Hill the problem of the original people, with an emphasis on colonization, dictatorship, exile and discrimination