Travelling Work / Dusk to Dawn
Ko Te Ākau
Charles Koroneho
About the work
Ko Te Ākau is a visual arts installation and curated performance program that unfolds across live and digital spaces. Designed for both group and solo performances, it is presented within a dispersal installation of light, sound, and video projection. The work invites a 'Mātiro Whakamua' perspective (gazing forward toward the horizon) creating a poetic meeting place between difference, ancestral memory, and collective imagination.
The aesthetic of Ko Te Ākau is futuristic and abstract, exploring the intersections of land, water, sky, and community. Performances journey through cycles of remembrance, acknowledgement, and aspiration, celebrating the presence of ancestral bodies and the power of ceremonial practice. Through movement, poetry, and performance, the project situates human creativity within the cosmos, offering audiences a horizon of possibility and hope.
About the artist
Charles Koroneho
(Ngā Puhi)
Tāmaki Makaurau, Aotearoa
Charles Koroneho is an independent artist based in Tāmaki Makaurau, Aotearoa, working across performance, dance, and visual culture. He is the founder, lead creative, and director of Te Toki Haruru, established in 1997 as a conceptual platform exploring Indigenous creativity, cultural collaboration, and the intersections of dance, theatre, visual arts, and design.
Koroneho is a founding member of Te Kanikani o Te Rangatahi and Taiao Dance Theatre, and a graduate of the New Zealand School of Dance and Elam School of Fine Arts, University of Auckland. He has created and performed works with Te Toki Haruru, MAU, Royal New Zealand Ballet, Guillermo Gómez-Peña, and La Pocha Nostra, touring across the Asia-Pacific, Europe, and North America.
Beyond performance, Koroneho mentors and collaborates with artists, educators, and cultural workers, sharing methodologies in movement, improvisation, and creative research. He has been recognised with the Arts Foundation of New Zealand Arts Laureate for Dance (2014) and has served as Adjunct Professor and Head of Contemporary Dance at Unitec Institute of Technology.