Tempo Dance Festival | Te Rerenga o Tere 2026

What happens when the cypher falls off axis? Drawing from Hip Hop culture and freestyle practice, this work explores uncertainty, instinct and the search for new ways to move together.

When It Is Finished explores embodied knowledge with Narrm Melbourne-based Deanne Butterworth; while Glimmer is a choreographic meditation exploring the trajectory of transgender time from our own val smith.

An electrifying performance, WHITE NOISE has emerged from award-winning creator/performer Alisha McLennan Marler’s lived experience of disability, as an artist, mother, and person. Presented with a short work from Oro.

Two of our tertiary dance institutions come together for one night only with original works by Matte Roffe, Sarah Knox with Third Year dancers, Horn's Out and Kerah McLean Duffy.