Australia. Terry performs both as a soloist and in collaboration.
Through a varied and wide reaching practice Terry’s dance often references contemporary issues of the time. For Terry, dance is used a vessel for story telling, both his own stories and others that need to be told. Through movement Terry highlights the importance of time of space and shows audiences the power of the narrative through movement.
ManAtua is an ongoing project choreographed by Terry Faleono and Peresetene Afato for the dance company TuMAU. So far there have been four iterations – at the Avondale Markets, Whau Arts Festival, Mangere Arts Centre NgÄ tohu o Uenuku and Te Uru Waitakere Contemporary Gallery – each with there own references to various contexts and sites.  These dance ceremonies utilise flags referencing the potential changing of the flag and what that change might mean to our histories. At Te Uru Waitakere Contemporary Gallery the performance occurred at the top of Soldiers Memorial Walkway in Titirangi and referenced the varied legacies of war united by that single flag. During WWI many Pacific Islands connected with New Zealand with the recruitment of Cook Island and Niuean troops to join the MÄori Battalion and the seizure of Western Samoa from German governance. These three Island nations as well as MÄori and British all connected under this one flag and ManAtua brings to the forefront is not only a memorial of these histories but the question of what happens when this flag or symbol then changes.
Terry has performed in a variety of different spaces including ManAtua, Te Uru Waitakere Contemporary Gallery, 2016; ManAtua, Mangere Arts Centre - NgÄ tohu o Uenuku, 2015; I AM, Aotea Centre, Auckland, 2015; I AM, Edinburgh Play House, Scotland, 2014; Offstage 5, Artspace, 2013; More Than We Know, Gus Fisher Gallery, 2013; Finding Neitherland, ST PAUL St Gallery, 2011 and McCahon House Trust, Auckland, 2010.