2025 Performance Programme

Thin Paper, Autonomous Synapses, Nomads, Tokyo(ing)

Footnote New Zealand Dance

Tuesday 1st July 7.30pm | Tapere Nui

Thin Paper, Autonomous Synapses, Nomads, Tokyo(ing) 薄い紙、自律のシナプス、遊牧民、トーキョー(する) reveals a new sense of space and time - intersecting people, cultures, landscapes, and moments. With choreography as poetic as its title, this work evokes deep emotion through attention to detail.

The Shedding of Velvet

Yaga Arts

Wednesday 2nd & Thursday 3rd July 6pm | Tapere Iti

In a state of unfettered evolution, what shape do you take?

Flight of the lost Birds/the Space Between

WIDance

Thursday 3rd July 7.30pm | Tapere Nui

A twin journey through land, myth, and movement—where flocks gather and souls divide.

Get Your Sandwich Out Of My Inbox

DancePlant Collective

Friday 4th July 7.30pm | Tapere Nui

Set in a surreal corporate utopia, Get Your Sandwich Out Of My Inbox follows two existential office colleagues as they attempt to preserve their spark amidst the mundane daily grind and looming urgency of capitalist contribution via email efficiency and midday meetings.

Quiet Rituals

 Jake Starrs, Stella Grace Seawright, and Grace Ella Lewis

Tuesday 1st July 6pm | Tapere Iti

Quiet Rituals is a triptych of solo performances by Jake Starrs, Stella Grace Seawright, and Grace Ella Lewis. The works unearth tender memories and splintering realisations along the path of growing into oneself.

Koolish Zein

BalletCollective Aotearoa

Wednesday 2nd July 7.30pm | Tapere Nui

“Koolish Zein” Leto said, voice soft. "This is all the good we may ever have"! - from Frank Herberts ‘Dune’ series.

This collaboration between percussionist Naoto Segato and BalletCollective Aotearoa brings the futuristic sounds of John Psathas into a more visual space. It looks at a changing world order, explores an imagined future and challenges us to query the hope of a better world – is ‘this all the good we may ever have’?

The Tantrum

Java Dance Theatre

Friday 4th & Saturday 5th July | Tapere Iti

For young people and their families!

Java brings you their signature style of interactive dance, theatre and live music. One-man band Tristan battles to keep the peace as dancers Stela and Lachy tie themselves in knots trying to find their place in the world. Stela and Lachy leave the cozy comforts of home tto enter a topsy turvy, wondrous, wacky and wild world. Challenges come thick and fast from all directions and it’s only a matter of time before it all becomes too much for our adventurers. They know how to start a Tantrum but do they know how to stop one?

Outliers

Projekt Team

Saturday 5th July 7.30pm | Tapere Nui

A 2v2 Experimental Dance Battle presented by Projekt Team.

This is more than a battle. It’s an experience. A platform for the outliers — those who don’t fit the mould, who move with instinct, purpose, and unpredictability. Outliers brings together movers in a high-stakes freestyle clash, set to experimental soundscapes.

It’s not just a new event. It’s a statement.

Let the battle begin.