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Emi Pogoni

About
Projects
Curation
Talks & Lectures
Awards

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Gravity & Grace

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Premonition
Advance To Go
O Le Pepelo, Le Gaoi Ma Le Pala'ai
Conversations With My Immigrant Parents S03
The Sun Sets Beneath The Ocean
Waterfront Monophony

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The Wasp
Night Time Jury ^development
Aliens & Anorexia ^postponed

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Nichework ^remount
Crocodile Fever ^postponed
Speargrass Skies Run Run By ^postponed
Standing In The Threshold
Artifact
The Single Object
A Figure Exhales ^remount
Conversations With My Immigrant Parents S02

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Strata
Nest 38
Speargrass Skies Run Run By ^development
A Message From 2040
Get Out Of My Letterbox

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Life Is Easy
Friendly Potential Mix
Kissing The Doubt
A Fragrant Tone Of Light
Nichework
May Mesh Mix
Once There Was A Woman
Angular Momentum

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Shadow Of Ease
Jacinda
Orientation
A snail watches dust particles in sunlight
Elliptical Fictions
Burn Her
Beachgirl goes to disneyland
Pool (no water)
projectMUSE ^development

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2am Phone Call
Out Of Tune
I, Will Jones
CHAOS/カオス
A Figure Exhales

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LUNGS
La Casa Azul
Pales: Don’t Be So Nice

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Chair
The Way We Fall
whkglrfthchshststdbpmn

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How To Make Friends And Still Appear Normal

Premonition

Contemporary Dance

Composer

Choreographer: Forest Kapo
Lighting Designer: Elekis Poblete Teirney
Technical Operator: Janis Cheng
Stage Manager: Genevieve Poppe
Dancers: Veronica ChengEn Lyu (吕承蒽), Levi Siaosi, Emma Cosgrave, Cecilia Wilcox, Airu Matsuda, Jacob Reynolds

For Footnote New Zealand Dance’s IYKYK double bill.

August 2023: Turner Centre, Kerikeri
July 2023: TSB Theatre Royal, Ngāmotu/New Plymouth
July 2023: Hannah Playhouse, Pōneke/Wellington

Advance To Go

Contemporary Dance

Composer

Choreographer: Holly Newsome
Lighting Designer: Elekis Poblete Teirney
Technical Operator: Janis Cheng
Stage Manager: Genevieve Poppe
Dancers: Veronica ChengEn Lyu (吕承蒽), Levi Siaosi, Emma Cosgrave, Cecilia Wilcox, Airu Matsuda

For Footnote New Zealand Dance’s IYKYK double bill.

August 2023: Turner Centre, Kerikeri
July 2023: TSB Theatre Royal, Ngāmotu/New Plymouth
July 2023: Hannah Playhouse, Pōneke/Wellington

O Le Pepelo, Le Gaoi Ma Le Pala’ai

Theatre

Co Sound Designer

Writers: Ui Natano Keni, Sarita Keo Kossamak So
Director: Ui Natano Keni
Director Mentor: Nathaniel Lees
Script Advisor: Tusi Tamasese
Producer: Sarita Keo Kossamak So
Set Designer: Mark McIntyre, Tony de Goldi
Lighting Designer: Isadora Lao
Costume Designer: Cara Louise
Choreographer: Tupua Tigafua
Stage Manager: Samoana Nokise
Technical Operator: Wren Glover
Photographer: Julie Zhu
Cast: Semu Filipo, Fiona Collins, Albert Latailakepa, Taofi Mose-Nehemia, Maurea Perez-Varea, Brett Taefu, Jake Aron, Villa Junior, Lanakila Opetaia-Tiatia

Co Sound Designer: Karnan Saba

June 2023: Kia Mau Festival, Circa Theatre, Pōneke/Wellington

Conversations With My Immigrant Parents

Podcast

Sound Post Production

Season 3

Creators, Producers, Narrators: Julie Zhu & Saraid De Silva
Location Recording: Joey Siasoco

For RNZ

The Sun Sets Beneath The Ocean

Contemporary Dance

Composer

Choreographer: Zahra Killeen-Chance

Photo credit: Petra Mingneau

March 2023: Sarjeant Gallery, Whanganui
February 2023: Tiny Fest, Ōtautahi/Christchurch

“Featuring an enthralling and deeply resonant original score by Emi Pogoni.”
-- Catherine Anderson Rhodes, Art New Zealand (Winter 2023)