Tempo Dance Festival NZ

Tempo Dance Festival NZ Tempo Dance Festival | Te Rerenga o Tere 13–18 October 2026. www.tempodancefestival.co.nz

Get moving and find your personal groove with one day of fabulous classes for all levels in Dreaming With Your Feet: Cla...
11/10/2026

Get moving and find your personal groove with one day of fabulous classes for all levels in Dreaming With Your Feet: Classes For All.

8am (55min): High Frequency Dance Fitness @ Empire Studios
Start your Saturday with a feel-good, high-energy dance fitness class that’s all about moving, letting go and having a bloody good time. This special class is also part of High Frequency’s celebration of Mental Health Awareness Week and this year’s theme, Belonging Matters.

10am (90min): Muscle & Bone with Independance @ Wellesley Studios
Our mood boosting Saturday morning Muscle & Bone is a fan favourite. These classes are vigorous, rhythmic and dynamic and catered for movement enthusiasts of all levels and backgrounds.

12.30pm (60min): House Dance Class with Sheldon Rua of Faleheddz @ Wellesley Studios
Faleheddz is not a crew, we are not a project. We are a movement. An Oceanic response. To all our Faleheddz existing between the wave of House dance and culture, we call to you. Join us for a open level workshop and enter into an hour of the eternal oontz!

2pm (60min): Somatic Movement Class with Shani Dickins @ Wellesley Studios
Explore the relationship between movement, attention, breath, and the nervous system in this embodied somatic movement class with Shani. Through gentle, mindful movement and sensory awareness, we’ll investigate ways of noticing and responding to bodily sensations, tension, effort, and ease – supporting greater body awareness, relaxation, and capacity to regulate stress.

With huge thanks to Independance, Wellesley Studios + High Frequency Dance Fitness.

Sat 17 Oct | $12-$20
🔗 Limited spaces – book now: www.tempodancefestival.co.nz/events-2026/dreaming-with-your-feet-classes-for-all (link in bio)

10/10/2026

Here's Deanne Butterworth taking us behind 'When It Is Finished', a work that connects two periods of her practice across two vastly different places.

Exploring how a creative logic emerges over time, the work brings these distinct experiences into conversation, placing embodied knowledge side by side and tracing the connections between past and present.

Catch When It Is Finished (alongside val smith's GLIMMER) next Friday for one night only as part of Tempo Dance Festival 2026.

Huge thanks to Wellesley Studios + Dancehouse Melbourne for their support of Deanne through the Trans-Tasman Dance Exchange Residency ❤️

📌 Q Theatre (Loft) | Fri 16 Oct | 6.30pm

Find out more and book your tickets at www.tempodancefestival.co.nz/events-2026/when-it-is-finished-glimmer

09/10/2026

The countdown is ON, just 3 days til Tempo's official opening night! Events all around Tāmaki Makaurau from 13-18 October, six days of dance, performance, film, parties and plenty more.

Tempo Dance Festival | Te Rerenga o Tere
13–18 October 2026

🔗 And with many events selling out, you best explore the full programme and book your tickets quick ‼️ at www.tempodancefestival.co.nz

And don't forget all of the amazing Pre-Festival events happening this weekend...

08/10/2026

Movement Of The Human on Breakfast this morning!

🕺 + 🚂 + 🗼 (aka Sky Tower) = 🥰

Huge thanks to Elephant Publicity Auckland Live ❤️

Don't miss TŌRUA; Flashdance Academy Cinemas and Test Fest Basement Theatre this weekend!

🎟️ www.tempodancefestival.co.nz/events-2026

Pre-Festival treats on this weekend!Tempo Dance Festival comes to Karanga-a-Hape Station with Movement of the Human + Au...
08/10/2026

Pre-Festival treats on this weekend!

Tempo Dance Festival comes to Karanga-a-Hape Station with Movement of the Human + Auckland Live in TŌRUA, Basement Theatre with Test Fest, and Academy Cinemas with Dance Films of Yesteryear: Flashdance featuring a pre-film lesson with Kate Thompson from Haus of Motion ❤️

Don't miss out!
www.tempodancefestival.co.nz/events-2026-pre-festival

Come together to celebrate and send off the Festival in style with larger than life bodies and ideas, splashed across th...
08/10/2026

Come together to celebrate and send off the Festival in style with larger than life bodies and ideas, splashed across the iconic Academy Cinemas screen. 🎞️

Six of the best dance films from across Aotearoa and Australia, co-curated by Tempo + Dance (Lens) — Australia’s premier platform for screendance. This line-up will have its Aotearoa premiere with us, before heading to Narrm Melbourne later in the year. ❤️

From a dance spaghetti western to butoh influence, multi-headed creatures to high energy leaps – this gorgeous line up has it all!

Artists include: Charles Koroneho, Daniel Riley (Artistic Director at Australian Dance Theatre), Amber McCartney, Harrison Ritchie-Jones, Atamira Dance Company – directed & choreographed by Kelly Nash, Sue Healey, Threading Frames, and Yuiko Masukawa.

The perfect way to sign off the Festival!

Academy Cinemas | Sun 18 Oct | 7.30pm

Co-curated with Dance (Lens), Dancehouse Melbourne

🔗 Visit www.tempodancefestival.co.nz/events-2026/dream-futures-screendance-now for tickets

ONE WEEK TO GO ⏳Tempo Dance Festival | Te Rerenga o Tere kicks off next Tuesday, 13–18 October. 27 events, over 160 arti...
06/10/2026

ONE WEEK TO GO ⏳

Tempo Dance Festival | Te Rerenga o Tere kicks off next Tuesday, 13–18 October. 27 events, over 160 artists, ‼️2,000+ tickets booked‼️ and just one week left to find your seat (or carpark).

🔥 Selling fast, so lock these in:
YMCĀ | EXHAUST | Tendrils of Tomorrow | Off Axis | When It Is Finished + GLIMMER | DARK!DARK!DARK! | Operamoth | The Room Would Split Open | Tōrua (FREE, bookings required) | KILL THE LIGHTS UNPLUGGED (FREE, bookings recommended) | Honouring a Dance Creative: Dr Carla Marja van Zon, ONZM (FREE, bookings required) | Fitting In: Karangahape GGebi (깨비) (waitlist only) | Body Story 0.25 (waitlist only) 🔥

✨ Get in early with:
🪩 Dance Films of Yesteryear: Flashdance
Leotards, water-dousing and hair flicks, on the big screen. Come early to learn some choreo from Kate Thompson of Haus of Motion | Academy Cinemas | Fri 9 Oct | 6pm

🌿 Natural Basic – Rebecca Jensen
From Narrm Melbourne, Green Room Award nominated and not to be missed. | Q Theatre | Tue 13 + Wed 14 Oct

🫂 SEKI – Sefa Tunupopo
An intimate street dance work about family from Sefa Tunupopo. Malia Johnston recommended! | Basement Theatre | Tue 13 + Wed 14 Oct

🎟️ Stack and Save
Book 2+ events through iTicket and watch the discount stack, up to 20% off your cart!

Full programme and tickets: tempodancefestival.co.nz/events-2026

We're super excited for TŌRUA kicking off this weekend around K Road, and we asked acclaimed choreographer & director Ma...
05/10/2026

We're super excited for TŌRUA kicking off this weekend around K Road, and we asked acclaimed choreographer & director Malia Johnston (Belle – A Performance of Air, Auckland Arts Festival) about working with Sefa Tunupopo and their solo SEKI.

"I first saw SEKI as part of Shifting Centre’s CIVIC event, and I was completely captivated by Sefa’s approach to performance — his commitment to detail, his extraordinary presence, and the pure vulnerability he is able to express through his work. Sefa is a unique and brilliant performer. SEKI is powerful, affecting and deeply felt — I loved it.

I also loved the title CIVIC when I first encountered this event where the work was first premiered, because it spoke so beautifully to the collective spirit of the Shifting Centre crew — artists making work for, with and from their community. Sefa is also one of our performers in TŌRUA, alongside two other members of the Shifting Centre whānau, and I feel very lucky to have these artists in our work.

So — come to SEKI. Come support our Te Whanganui-a-Tara artists. Come see Sefa. ❤️"

And with over 1,900 tickets now booked for Tempo Dance Festival 2026, you better be moving QUICK! ⏩

SEKI
📍 Basement Theatre | Tue 13 + Wed 14 Oct
8pm | 60 min
🔗 Visit www.tempodancefestival.co.nz/events-2026/seki

TŌRUA
Presented by and
🚂 Karanga-a-Hape: Meet @ Pitt St Methodist Church | Fri 9 Oct: 6pm; Sat 10 + Sun 11 Oct: 1pm + 6pm (50 min)
🚂 Te Waihorotiu: Meet @ Aotea Centre Box Office | Fri 16 Oct: 6pm; Sat 17 + Sun 18 Oct: 1pm + 6pm (50 min)
FREE, Bookings recommended

Photo of Sefa: Andi Crown Photography

✋A dancer's hands say a lot... So you're only getting appendages of the full photos here.We're SO lucky in Aotearoa to h...
04/10/2026

✋A dancer's hands say a lot... So you're only getting appendages of the full photos here.

We're SO lucky in Aotearoa to have such a rich history of amazing dance photography! Between shows at Q Theatre, check out the exhibition of seven prints specially selected by some of our extraordinary photographers, including:

John McDermott
Jinki Cambronero
Stephen A’Court
Ralph Brown
Andi Crown
Celia Walmsley

More information here: www.tempodancefestival.co.nz/events-2026/exhibition
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