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Emi Pogoni


About
Projects
Curation
Talks & Lectures
Awards

2024
Gravity & Grace

2023
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

2022
The Wasp
Night Time Jury development
Aliens & Anorexia postponed

2021
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

2020
Strata
Nest 38
Speargrass Skies Run Run By development
A Message From 2040
Get Out Of My Letterbox

2019
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

2018
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

2017
2am Phone Call
Out Of Tune
I, Will Jones
CHAOS/カオス
A Figure Exhales

2016
LUNGS
La Casa Azul
Pales: Don’t Be So Nice

2014
Chair
The Way We Fall
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2013
How To Make Friends And Still Appear Normal
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Gravity & Grace

Theatre

Composer, Sound Designer, Music Supervisor


Adaption: Karin McCracken, Eleanor Bishop
Director: Eleanor Bishop
Performance Designer: Meg Rollandi
AV Designer: Owen McCarthy
Lighting Designer: Rob Larsen
Producer: Melanie Hamilton
Production Management: Pilot Productions
Technical Operator: Rachel Neser
Stage Manager: Natasha Thyne
Cast: Nī Dekkers-Reihana, Simon Leary, Karin McCracken, Sam Sneddon, Rongopai Tickell

Thank you: Anita Clark, Lucy Reid, Rob Thorne

Adapted from the book by Chris Kraus

21-24 March 2024; Auckland Arts Festival, Q Theatre, Tāmaki Makaurau/Auckland
7-10 March 2024; Aotearoa New Zealand Festival of the Arts, Circa Theatre, Pōneke/Wellington
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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.

27 March 2024: Papa Hou, Ōtautahi/Christchurch
23 March 2024: Memorial Centre, Tahuna/Queenstown
13 March 2024: War Memorial Centre, Tairāwhiti/Gisborne
8 March 2024: Little Theatre, Whakatāne
29 February - 2 March 2024: Q Theatre, Tāmaki Makaurau/Auckland
24 February 2024: Hamilton Arts Festival, The Meteor, Kirikiriroa/Hamilton
20 February 2024: Great Lake Centre, Taupō
14-15 February 2024: The Globe Theatre, Te Papaioea/Palmerston North
10 February 2024: Te Auaha, Te Whanganui-a-Tara/Wellington

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

“Emi Pogoni’s score and Elekis Poblete Teirney’s lighting both achieve nuance, variety and integration with the choreography and themes of Premonition.”
-- Brigitte Knight, The Post

“With hints of the sound qualities and motifs of the first work, I am reminded that this sound scape was also developed by Pogoni. However, this sound track is more fluid and lyrical.”
-- Dr Debbie Bright, Theatreview

“The lighting and sound play an important part in clarifying the intent. Collaborations of this nature are more and more an integral part of contemporary dance creation, fully reflecting the multi-dimensional approaches to theatrical presentation of our time.”
-- Jenny Stevenson, Theatreview
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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.

27 March 2024: Papa Hou, Ōtautahi/Christchurch
23 March 2024: Memorial Centre, Tahuna/Queenstown
13 March 2024: War Memorial Centre, Tairāwhiti/Gisborne
8 March 2024: Little Theatre, Whakatāne
29 February - 2 March 2024: Q Theatre, Tāmaki Makaurau/Auckland
24 February 2024: Hamilton Arts Festival, The Meteor, Kirikiriroa/Hamilton
20 February 2024: Great Lake Centre, Taupō
14-15 February 2024: The Globe Theatre, Te Papaioea/Palmerston North
10 February 2024: Te Auaha, Te Whanganui-a-Tara/Wellington

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

“A significant sound offering from Emi Pogoni permeates the entirety of the show”
-- Chloe Jacques, Theatreview
“relentless, driving, frenetic, digital referenced sound score”
-- Tania Kopytko, Theatreview

“As the audience lights fade, I am drawn into the performance by the driving bass, vibrating, rhythmic tones of Pogoni’s sound scape.”
-- Dr Debbie Bright, Theatreview
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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
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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
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