Leading Taonga Pūoro artists collaborate together with Good Company Arts to create a cultural time-capsule, focussing on the musicianship and beauty of Taonga Pūoro. The project is creating an archive that shares knowledge specifically of the Pūtōrino instrument. Kāi Tahu wāhine
Read moreDRAGON ドラゴン Poems
2024 is year of the Dragon - last month we made the first big strides in Tokyo towards our new cine-dance short “DRAGON”, with IDIOT SAVANT Theater Co and Mark de Clive-Lowe.
Read morePōtaka Nautilus in Spain
In October the Pōtaka Nautilus project opened as an immersive exhibition at Museo de Navarra, Pamplona, Spain, for Festival After Cage 2023. This is our livestream webcast premiere which features dance artists Taane Mete and Airu Matsuda as kaitiaki supporting the full Pōtaka Nautilus creative team, including taonga pūoro soloists Alistair Fraser and Ariana Tikao.
Read moreDRAGON Film Update
2024 is year of the Dragon - last month we made the first big strides in Tokyo towards our new cine-dance short “DRAGON”, with IDIOT SAVANT Theater Co and Mark de Clive-Lowe.
Read morePōtaka Nautilus In Progress
The Pōtaka_Nautilus project is a multi-modal dance and sound experience designed for international presentations in Prague, Pamplona, and Tel Aviv.
Read more2022 RECAP
Good Company Arts delivered four international world premieres. We recreated legacy works as full dome, virtual gallery, VR and webcasts for major festivals in Canada and Colombia.
Read moreAstrolabe - Whakaterenga @XXI International Image Festival (Festival Internacional de la Imagen) October 2022
Our Astrolabe - Whakaterenga project was honoured to be featured in the XXI International Festival of the Image (Festival Interncacional de la Imagen) during October 2022.
Read moreAstrolabe - Whakaterenga @World Stage Design 2022
Good Company Arts is delighted to share our performance livestream of Astrolabe - Whakaterenga at World Stage Design 2022
Read moreRegeneration’s Slow Wail: On ‘Ad Parnassum/Purapurawhetū’
Vibration is the way time moves, landscapes shift, and stars reemerge out of the black to haunt us. Under the spike of each sharp new birth murmur prolonged rhythms—a flutter, a tremble, a sigh.
Read moreTAL/VOYAGER
The TAL/Voyager project represents a special union between South Korea and New Zealand companies. Creative New Zealand toi Aotearoa support has enabled this international collaboration.
Read morePEPE update (Nguru)
"Nguru" is the first journey work in a new digital film series (PEPE) to honour and celebrate Taonga Pūoro Musicians and their traditional instruments, and to connect these healing voices to dance and new technologies for contemporary storytelling.
Read moreTIGER film update
This February our brand new dance short TIGER, will open with the Lunar New Year Festival in Te Whanganui-a-Tara to celebrate the year of the Tiger 2022.
Read moreLaniakea VR
Inspired by the cosmic forces of expansion and contraction at work in the universe, we entered into a digital/analogue process that utilises motion graphics, generative image processing, filmed dance, sound electronics, live musicianship and VR.
Read moreThe Woman Remembers
The Woman Remembers is projection mapped outdoor work about belonging and loss. The project has evolved from a long-term collaboration between independent theatre companies in Queensland, New Zealand and Japan. For this iteration, Belloo Creative collaborated with Good Company Arts (New Zealand) and Phluxus2 Dance Collective (Brisbane)
Read moreOneOne - Raranga (Te Matatiki Toi Ora - Matariki)
We opened OneOne - Raranga on Friday night at The Arts Centre Te Matatiki Toi Ora, to a packed Great Hall. It was very special to be able to deliver this activation with live dance, live music and live transmission visuals. The harakeke whāriki disc and kete from Kahu Collective weavers are beautiful (large central kete conatins OneOne VR Oculus Go headset journeys).
Read moreAkiruno Update
Today a special parcel arrived from our friends in Tokyo. Idiot Savant Theater Co sent us a Moon Lute - traditional Japanese Gekkin (月琴).
Read moreAd Parnassum - Film Update
Filming production was finally completed for Ad Parnassum - purapurawhetū, after delays due to the global pandemic. 13 talented artists came together at Te Whaea Theatre and Massey University in Wellington for an inspiring dance choreolab.
Read moreAstrolabe - Pounamu Installation (Te Papa Tongarewa)
We are excited to share that the Chinese New Year Festival in Wellington have commissioned 12 public artworks to make up their Zodiac Trail in the city this month. Arts Laureate Daniel Belton with GCA whānau created a new serpent edition of the Astrolabe - Whakaterenga project designed as a print installation for the entrance facade of Te Papa Tongarewa National Museum of New Zealand.
Read moreAd Parnassum - music development
Our newest project in the wings Ad Parnassum - purapurawhetū enjoyed a surge in music development with composer Gillian Whitehead recently. Director Daniel Belton travelled north with cellist Paul Mitchell to work with Gillian in Ruakaka.
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