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FOUNDER AND CREATOR
Malia has been directing and choreographing live performances for over 20 years throughout Aotearoa. She has enjoyed collaborating with a wide range of performers and arts organisations and has been commissioned to create new works for companies nationally and internationally, as well as developing new live contemporary performances, alongside collaborators, with her own company, Movement of the Human. Malia directed the opening ceremony for the Fifa Women's World Cup 2023 and she has also been deeply involved as a lead creative and show direct for the Annual World of WearableArt awards for over 22 years , a show that now welcomes around 60,000 people during its season in Wellington each year. Malia is known for her cross form collaborations and her work often involves artists from diverse practices. Significant repertoire includes Belle - A Performance Of Air, Meremere, Mana Wahine (created with Okareka Dance Company), Owls Do Cry (A theatre production created with Red Leap), Rushes, Pukeahu National War memorial Opening ceremony, He Wawā Waraki: Roaring Chorus - Armistice Commemoration, Hurihuri for the commonwealth games arts festival. A new work IMPRINT was performed in Holland and Germany and toured New Zealand - commissioned in 2024 by the New Zealand Dance Company. Malia also directed the opening ceremony for the Choir Games 2024.
Eden Mulholland (Ngāti Porou) is one of Australasia’s finest contemporary composers, known for his prodigious contributions to theatre, film, and stage productions. His work is marked by a strong commitment to collaboration, producing powerful, poetic, and multi-layered music across various artistic fields.
Based in Queensland, Eden’s artistic approach is enriched by his background as a contemporary dancer and multi-instrumentalist. This unique combination of skills, along with his extensive experience as a collaborator and recording artist, allows him to move effortlessly between different artistic domains, pushing beyond traditional genre boundaries.
Eden is the Show Composer for World of Wearable Art. He is currently writing for Atamira Dance Company and the World Choir Games. His recent commissions include the 2023 FIFA Women’s World CupOpening Ceremony, the Aotearoa Festival season of Belle with MOTH, The Pact drama series on TVNZ & SBS, and The Keeper feature film.
Production Designer
Rowan is an award-winning performance designer raised in Feilding, Aotearoa with ancestral ties to Scotland and England
His career spans upwards of 10 years with a substantial background in live video and sound design. These mediums continue to be at the forefront of his practice in creating performative design. Rowan creates environments for performance using a multi-disciplinary approach to spatial and performance design. Synthesising video, sound, light and object seamlessly to create physically affecting works.
He describes his role as a designer as striving for tangible and viscerally affecting works that provide heightened shared experience.
Awards include PANNZ FAME Award 2023. Wellington Theatre Awards Excellence in Design and AV Design 2017/2018.
His work is firmly based in Aotearoa, New Zealand and has been widely presented internationally to critical acclaim. Recent notable works include He Huia Kaimanawa (Auckland Arts Festival,Kia Mau Festival 2023), Pōhutu (Kia Mau Festival 2019, Tempo Dance Festival 2019, Te Raukura ki Kāpiti 2022). Rowan has been working as a core collaborator with Movement of The Human since its creation and works include MEREMERE, RUSHES and many more.
Rowan is also a founding member and musician in the group Glass Vaults.
A Freelance Performance Designer, Ian Hammond’s work spans a wide range of skill sets and interests including Theatre, Graphic Design, Art Direction, Film, animation, storyboarding, events, set and costume design.
A strong collaborative leader, Ian worked for the World of Wearable Art Awards show for 5 years concentrating on AV content but also working on story boarding, scripting and elements of audience interface with social media.
Ian has worked on theatre productions for Capital E and Centrepoint and has also worked on successful projects with a range of other organisations inducing Lux, The Performance Arcade and the Prague Quadrennial.
Ian integrates the concepts of user experience and audience experience in all the work he creates.
Tūį is a descendent of Ohomairangi and Makuratawhiti of the Ngāti Ohomairangi people. Her Grandparents hail from the vessels: Te Arawa, Tainui, Mataatua, Arai-te-uru-, Tākitimu, Manuka, Kurahaupō.
A highly skilled Māori performing artist, Tūī specialises in Māori weaponry particularly with patu.
Tūi is a composer, tutor and first leader of Te Matarae-i-Ōrehu (top National Kapa Haka) and over the last 20+ years she has been a judge for Maori performing art forms from Primary through to tertiary level including senior regionals to Te Matatini.
John has had an exceptionally extensive career in set and performance design. He is one of New Zealand’s leading performance designers with an extensive portfolio.
John has worked with most theatre companies in New Zealand and his designs have toured across the globe.
John has also designed comprehensively for the New Zealand Opera, Black Grace Dance Company, Douglas Wright, Auckland Theatre Company and World of Wearable Art Awards among many others.
Rodney Bell Ngāti Maniapoto is a renowned dancer and performer. His artistic expression demonstrates elements of traditional Maori culture, and at the same time he's continually seeking new ways to enhance his creative process.
Rodney received the 2017 Arts Access award for artistic achievement and the 2016 Atttude award for Artistic achievement both recognising his most recent work MEREMERE
Rodney has been dancing professionally since 1994 beginning as a founding member of Touch Compass Dance Trust, which is an internationally renowned physically integrated dance company based in Auckland, New Zealand.
In 2007, he relocated to California, U.S.A, to join AXIS Dance Company, based in Oakland, where he remained principal dancer until 2012. Since return back to New Zealand Rodney has actively work not only as an artist but also worked as an advocator and provocator towards stronger integration and voice for people with diverse requirements and backgrounds with particular interest in arts access. Rodney is currently working on a new piece that will be presented in Australia in April 2018, He travels to Singapore to present a work in the Festival of colour and will tour New Zealand in May-July 2018 with his work Meremere.
Emma Willis is a director and dramaturge who works as a Lecturer in Drama at the University of Auckland.
In 2014 she published, Theatricality, Dark Tourism and Ethical Spectatorship: Absent Others (Palgrave Macmillan) based on her doctoral research, which included award-winning performance Dark Tourists, made in collaboration with Malia Johnston.
Emma’s research has been praised for its design, execution, originality in its interdisciplinary reach and moral commitment to her subject matter. Her scholarship includes elements of theatre studies, museum studies, anthropology, history, philosophy and practical performance in both drama and dance. In 2015 she was awarded the American Theatre and Drama Society Vera Mowry Roberts Award for Research and Publication for best essay on the subject of theatre in the Americas.
Emma regularly co-creates Dance Theatre with Malia Johnston and team.
PRODUCER
Romola Lang has over 20 years experience of mixing it up, she is a story teller with a career shaped by pushing technology and interactivity to extraordinary ends. Romola specialises in producing bespoke mixed-media productions and multi-media environments. Romola has designed and produced product launches, opening ceremonies, television commercials, festivals, dance, film, interactive and multi media environments. She created the NZ Innovation Pavilion during the second Americas cup and the immersive 270° experience that was the global roaming Giant Rugby Ball. She was the VFX producer for Dreamworks production, Lumen and three seasons of the television series Spartacus. She was a finalist in the NY Festival International Film Awards for work with Auckland Airport, won bronze and was a finalist in BeST design awards for a national Vodafone tour and Interactive design and won various Axis Awards for television commercials she produced.
To deliver a production on time and on budget requires skilful communication and collaboration. Romola actively seeks expertise and opinion which she then distils. She believes that a strong result is articulated not only by lateral thinking but through clever people goaded into exceeding a brief and ultimately taking us somewhere we have never been before.
Aerial Choreographer - Aerial Apparatus Design - Costume Designer - Collaborator.
Jenny is a multidisciplinary artist specialising in visual arts, costume, aerial apparatus design and choreography.
Over the past 20 years Jenny has worked with a wide range of contemporary circus, live performance and film production companies based both overseas and in Aotearoa.
The diversity of her career has allowed her to explore many roles in a variety of performance industries, from working as a movement artist with Robert Lepage’s ‘Ex Machina’ for the Metropolitan Opera of New York to touring internationally as a choreographer and performer for experimental Zurich Contemporary Circus company Rigolo, to her current roles as Aerial Director for The World of Wearable Art and Costume work for NZ Film and Television.
Her strengths lie in team collaboration and any realm where bodies and design collide.
Jenny is the co-creator and aerial designer of BELLE - Performance of Air by Movement of the Human
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