This opportunity is open to one Wellington based choreographer who will receive 25hrs a week for 5 weeks in the Toi Pōneke Dance Studio to develop a new dance theatre work. You will work alongside an emerging producer and a cast/ crew of up to 3. We recommend your cast/crew could be made up of 2 dancers and a videographer/photographer to help document the work. The choreographer and crew will receive a stipend to rehearse and will present to an ‘industry only’ showing at the end of the residency. The choreographer will also have access to a paid mentor. (A choreographer, Dramaturg or Director.)

Toi Pōneke Arts Centre are delighted to announce Tasman Kaitara as the recipient for the 2024 Dance Development Residency.

Toi Pōneke Arts Centre is delighted to announce Kaysee Savali as the Dance Development resident for 2023.

Toi Pōneke Arts Centre is delighted to announce Asha Barr Emerging Production Designer Resident for 2023.

This opportunity is open to one choreographer/dancer who will receive 25hrs a week for 5 weeks in the Toi Pōneke Dance Studio (May - June 2023) to develop a new solo dance work alongside our resident emerging production designer.

This opportunity is open to one choreographer who will receive 25hrs a week for 5 weeks in the Toi Pōneke Dance Studio (April - May 2022) to develop a new dance work.

Accepdance is a double bill of live performance by Pōneke-based emerging artists Otto Kosok and Amit Noy, in collaboration with emerging producer Christina Guieb, producer Liv Chan and lighting designer Elekis Poblete Teirney. They have been the recipients of the Toi Poneke Dance Residency 2021. They will be showcasing this new work as part of the NZ Fringe.

Toi Pōneke Arts Centre are delighted to announce our Dance Residents for 2020-21; choreographers Otto Kosok & Amit Noy and producer Monique Gilmour.

A weekly contemporary dance class open for professional independent dancers in Wellington.

An opportunity for two choreographers and one emerging producer to undertake a residency, which will culminate in a double bill production at NZ Fringe.

Toi Pōneke are proud to offer our 4th dance residency to choreographers Bjorn Aslund, Alec Katsourakis, Alessia Augello and Producer Mattias Olofsson.

Toi Pōneke are proud to offer our 3rd dance residency to Well Fare State to present their first full length work Flying Down Sand Dunes at the NZ Fringe in March.

Tread Softly is a collaboration between photographer Tom Hoyle and choreographer Sacha Copland.As the days grow shorter Autumn will spread throughout the gallery and dancers will capture moments of abandon in and amongst falling leaves.

As part of our support and opportunities programme, Toi Pōneke is thrilled to be sponsoring dance studio hire for dance theatre company, House of Sand.

The company are working on a new show, FEAR OF EGGS, which will premiere at BATS Theatre from 20-24 March, as part of the 2018 NZ Fringe Festival.

After the success of the 2017 residency, Toi Pōneke is proud to offer two dance practitioners a chance to take bold risks and test something fresh in Wellington's hottest stomping ground: NZ Fringe.

Toi Pōneke partnered with Dance Aotearoa New Zealand (DANZ) to offer a programme of free dance workshops covering a diverse range of dance styles for the public to ‘give dance a go’.

Choreographers Holly Newsome and Samuel Hall, alongside producer Brynne Tasker-Poland, spent three weeks at Toi Pōneke developing two new works, Incognito and Subsequent Slavery, performed at the 2017 Fringe Festival.