2025 Residency Recipients

The 2025 recipients receive a week long residency at the Te Auaha dance studios, to research and develop their own arts practice.

Natasha Kohler

Our residency at the Pōneke Festival of Contemporary Dance 2025 will host the first development of a new dance work, working title 'bodies of earth'. The work is a duet between Brittany Kohler and Georgia Beechey that explores the relationship between the human and more than human world within an eco somatic lens.

Trinity Maydon

"a faceless apparition" (working title) is a new contemporary solo work in its first stages of development exploring the ideas of self perception/presentation- the process of strategically concealing or revealing personal information in order to influence others' and our own perceptions on ourselves.

Samara Reweti

Kupi: 1. (verb) to shut (the eyes), screw up (the eyes) - shut them so hard that the skin wrinkles up around them.

During this residency, Samara will be developing her new work; Kupi.

A conversation between the seen and unseen; unravelling ideas around gaze politics, intimacy and mass surveillance. This work will look at how the gaze can operate like a witness or a weapon.

Ruby Brunton

Dance Lab InCubate is a one day residency that is open to dancers, theatre practitioners, performing artists and anyone with an interest in movement research and practice. We will start with a regular Dance Lab training which explores the possibilities for improvised movement through guided exercises. We will then work together to create a collective choreography which will be presented as the beginning of an open session which will allow for a blurring of lines between audience and performer. Dance Lab invites participation across artistic disciplines and contributing through music, drawing, written and spoken text as well as movement is encouraged.

Aylin Atalay

'Please Let Me Remain' is an intimate exploration of the essence of sisterhood through the most mundane of activities.

Georgia Beechey

Traversing between realities, both artificial and real, between memories and dreams. Researching, remembering and reclaiming. An exploration of ongoing, relentless sharing and shapeshifting.

Celia Hext

‘I Will Expire/Our Silent Body’ seeks to uncover the silent languages of the ambiguous, unholdable body. The squeaks, the screams, the laughter, the howls, the grunts; the constant now body. Through improvised practices, this research takes an intimate look into what it is to be seamlessly, playfully, painfully, transforming. A celebration of the movement/music of the human.

You are invited to witness Celia in residency. She will be moving through the process of performance. Each evening will be different, and complete in its nowness.

Wed 2nd July & Fri 4th July 6pm| Footnote Studios

Approx 30 mins, koha is appreciated

Helena May

‘parasite/paradise’ explores the space between what is real and what is imagined — a rupture in perception, a question of what we choose to witness.