Save<\/a>Share this articleCopy LinkEmailFacebookTwitter\/XLinkedInReddit<\/p>\nT\u014drua, which invites audiences to travel through streets, laneways and public spaces wearing wireless headsets, is free as part of Tempo Dance Festival. Photo \/ Alex Robertson<\/p>\n
In T\u014drua, nine dancers invite their audience to explore the varied spaces of T\u0101maki Makaurau, listening to two original compositions from New Zealand musicians Eden Mulholland and Anna Edgington.<\/p>\n
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T\u014drua is directed by Malia Johnston from Movement of the Human and created collaboratively with nine exceptional dance artists from across Aotearoa. Photo \/ Alex Robertson![\"T\u014drua]()
T\u014drua invites audiences to travel through streets, laneways and public spaces wearing wireless headsets that offer a choice between two original musical scores by Eden Mulholland (Ng\u0101ti Porou) and Anna Edgington. Photo \/ Alex Robertson<\/p>\n
\n The name suggests the weaving of two energies reflected in the performers\u2019 duets, says director Malia Johnston of Movement of the
\n Human. \u201c[The dancers] are always in a duet with the environment or with the relationship with the audience,\u201d she said after Saturday\u2019s show that started at Karanga-a-Hape station before migrating through the streets to the finale in Myers Park.\n <\/p>\n
T\u014drua has delighted audiences across Aotearoa New Zealand and Australia and is presented as part of the Tempo Dance Festival this week in central Auckland. The piece features distinct vignettes with duets, solos and group dances using the environment as backdrops and props. Johnston says the natural environment challenges the perception of conditioned viewing, empowering audiences to watch however they want, wherever they want.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alex Robertson NZ Herald\u00b7 11 Oct, 2026 05:38 PM2 mins to read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":628522,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[5845,2991,1038,308397,195391,7502,8142,308399,156,8815,4975,71,78,95399,9814,6048,308398,40940,111,139,37968,69,1855,26699,5412,223,165,6047,308396,146163,4576,80],"class_list":["post-628521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-anna","tag-audience","tag-brings","tag-compositions","tag-dancers","tag-dancing","tag-eden","tag-edgington","tag-entertainment","tag-explore","tag-free","tag-from","tag-in","tag-invite","tag-listening","tag-makaurau","tag-mulholland","tag-musicians","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nine","tag-nz","tag-original","tag-spaces","tag-streets","tag-the","tag-their","tag-tmaki","tag-trua","tag-varied","tag-work","tag-zealand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=628521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628521\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/628522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=628521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=628521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=628521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}