This online archive of posters, brochures, photographs, press clippings, programmes, promotional material and film showcases twenty-two years of Tempo Dance Festival, the longest running dance festival in Aotearoa New Zealand. The material gathered here represents a vast array of dance, highlighting many of Aotearoa’s finest dance artists and memorable performances.

Dance, often referred to as ephemeral, the ‘quintessential artform of the immediate’ or the ‘vanishing present’, connects and uplifts people in several ways; culturally, spiritually, intellectually, aesthetically, kinetically.

By revisiting a captured gesture, recalling a one-time only performance or watching a younger version of one of our established dance artists in the material of this archive, we hope to re-ignite the connections between past and present, ka mua, ka muri, reflecting the taonga of our dance community.