24 years of tempo
TAONGA TUKU IHO
OUR LIVING ARCHIVE
Our Living Archive is an ever-growing and expanding collection of ephemera, moments, thoughts, and reflections of Tempo Dance Festival's momentous 24 years.
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.
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OUR LIVING ARCHIVE IS BUILT BY OUR COMMUNITY
The history of Tempo Dance Festival lives within our communities, and now within Our Living Archive.
Each image, personal anecdote, moment of film, memory, written reflection, note, drawing, costume or other sharing of the journey is a taonga to treasure.
We would like to acknowledge that we do not have complete information for all of the material currently within Our Living Archive. If you have any information you would like to share with us about the existing material in our archive, please contact us here.
If you would like to contribute an image, film, written or spoken reflection, thought, or memory of Tempo Dance Festival, we welcome you to share this with us using the ‘Make a Contribution’ button on this page. If you have a physical item you would like to contribute to our Living Archive, please let us know here.
