Dance 2018 Season 2

Choreographer Anks Fepuleai

Independent Dance Company A/Cartel

I am ANKS. Developing artist raised in South Auckland. I am of Samoan decent – mother // Satoalepai, Savaii father // Saleaula, Savaii. Creating contemporary work with the influences of Hip Hop and Pacific elements.

Anton Pulefale

Christian Soteria Segi

Jireh Lalotoa-Peniata

Kardia Ak-Kiau

Choreographer Kerryanne Mayhew (Whangarei, NZ)

Kerryanne Mayhew is a freelance contemporary choreographer who completed her Masters degree in Dance Studies in early 2018. She has had works shown in Auckland Fringe Festival, collaboration works in Tempo dance festival, as well as two seasons at Basement theatre.

Kisha September
Seren Powell-Jones
Adrienne Tucker

Choreographers Deborah Fletcher & Evie Logan (Auckland & Wellington, NZ)

Deborah and Evie, are in their final year of studying a Bachelor of Dance Studies at the University of Auckland. Recently travelling to Kuala Lumpur attending an international dance festival they have continued to grow as emerging artists. They are interested in the interaction between improvisation, text and choreographic intention.Deborah travelled on the Dance Studies Asia Tour, where her collaborative choreographic piece, “See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil” was performed. Evie have most recently performed with the Jang Huddle collective in Iron Eyes soon after she returned from her professional development dance exchange in New York.

Deborah Fletcher
Evie Logan

Choreographers Amber Liberté (Auckland, NZ)

Amber Liberté is a graduate of Unitec’s acting program, as well as a contemporary + ballet trained dancer. She likes exploring boundaries, messing with forms, and making work that feels socio-political or revolutionary in some way or another. Her recent choreographic/directorial work for film + stage includes: POOL (NO WATER), CATALYST, SEUSSICAL: THE MUSICAL, WET-HOT BEAUTIES (asst.), OUR INTEGUMENT. She has also been a da’ctor in works for notables, like: ATC, NZFW, Tim Bray Productions, as well as young + fresh emerging pieces of work.

Amber Liberté

Choreographers Renee Richards (Auckland, NZ)

Renee Richards, Dance Artist, Choreographer, Secondary Teacher, Photographer: Graduated with a Bachelor of Dance Studies (Honours), at the University of Auckland in 2017. Early 2016 she co-choreographed her first professional show along with Kerryanne Mayhew at the Basement Theatre called How We Tessellate. Later in the year she was a dance counselor at Camp America in New York; French Woods Performing Arts Camp for three months. For two years now she has competed in the Street Dance New Zealand National Championships, placing third and qualifying for the World Hip Hop Championships this August. In 2017 Renee co-choreographed Vacant.6 at the Auckland Fringe Festival. Renee is a dancer for Trip The Light collective lead my Perri Exeter and Joash Fahitua. Whilst currently busy completing her Secondary Teaching Diploma in Dance at Epsom Auckland University, teaching at Studio 246 and Club Physical. Renee is trained in specifically Hip Hop, contemporary and Jazz, (Trained Ballet 2 years).

Matt Cornere
Zavier Aroa
Taitanyk Toniu
Kisha September

Choreographers Indiana Carder-Dodd & Pamela McHardy 

Sophie Greig

Hannah Raimon

Abbagail Rogers

Choreographer Georgie Goater & Maikki Palm (Helsinki, Finland)

 

NZ performer Goater (NZ) relocated to Helsinki 2 years ago, and dancer/choreographer Palm (FI) visited Auckland for the first time earlier this year. Both are currently Helsinki based dance artists. They have collaborated on ‘Drift’ with two dancers; Touch Compass star Alisha McLennan Marler (NZ), and multimedia dance artist Sierra Diprose (NZ) also with Touch Compass, as well as independent sound designer/producer James Risbey (CA/NZ), who are all active artists in the Auckland dance and performance community.

Alisha McLennan Marler 

Sierra Diprose

(video: Maikki Palm & Georgie Goater)

Choreographers Kim West (Auckland, NZ)

Kim West has been making dance ever since she can remember growing up in Southern California. She holds a BFA in Dance from Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle. While living in New York, she co-directed an arts collective, Banana Peel Dance, performing work in the USA and Europe. Her work as a Pilates instructor and Balanced Body movement educator has taken her across the globe. Kim is a recent Kiwi transplant residing in Auckland immersing herself in yoga studies.

Kim West

Choreographer Vicky Kapo 

2018 Artistic Cv and bio. Residing currently in Melbourne, Australia, Vicky Kapo is a multifaceted artist, with indigenous heart. Her tribal affiliations are with Te Atiawa, + Ngati Raukawa. Armed with a B.A in Performance and Dance, and with renegade spirit, she uses whatever methods happen to allow fulfilment of the creative vision. Her tools of choice are movement, text, installations, sound and channeled improvisation, using all to bring a full sense of theatre. Striving to bring to performances experiences that are intimate and connecting, her works are often political, evocative, and mesmerising. She is human agent, dreamtime observer; curious about activating collective consciousness, translating dreamtime, and the joys and craft found in the construction of a well -formed sentence. Her recent 2018 and 2017 performances and artist works include: A 30 min Sound work Burning Questions with Canadian artist Carolin Kunzle for a Canadian Pirate Radio weekend festival in January 2018. Black-Out by Auckland Artist Tru Paraha – A dance theatre activation and installation; performed 15th and 16th of February 2018 @ the Kenneth Myer centre. Felt Room by Body Cartography artist Olive Beringa. A 3hr durational sensory unfolding using scores and the darkness to create a cellular somatic experience performed during the Performance Arcade festival in February Wellington NZ.

TBC

Choreographer Presley Ziogas (Auckland, NZ)

Presley is currently in her final year of a BPSA at Unitec. She is interested in using humour, irony and music to tell daker narratives and what it looks like to pick apart and abstract human feelings and experiences.

Abbie Rogers

Nea Brink

Kimberly Green

Presley Ziogs

Sophie Greig