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The Path: A Performance Journey through Breathe | Mauri Ora

Pēhea nā te urupare a ngā kaitito, a ngā kaiwhakatangi, me ngā kaikani ki te ao rumaki o Breathe | Mauri Ora: An Immersive Journey into Nature by Marshmallow Laser Feast?

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How do poets, musicians, and dancers respond to the immersive worlds of Breathe | Mauri Ora: An Immersive Journey into Nature by Marshmallow Laser Feast?

When | Āhea

Sat 7 Mar 2026, 7pm to 10pm

Where | Ki hea

Breathe | Mauri Ora Gallery, Level 4

Cost | Te utu

$60

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Experience powerful, one-night-only performances by:

  • Tayi Tibble – award-winning poet and writer

  • Dream Chambers – musical artist and composer using synthesis and voice

  • Jan Smolira and Trinity Maydon – contemporary dancers

  • Alistair Fraser – taonga puoro player, composer, maker and researcher

As you move through the artworks, encounter live performances that bring new dimensions to this awe-inspiring exhibition. 

Limited tickets – book now to experience Breathe | Mauri Ora in this special evening.

Ngā ringatoi | Artists

Tayi Tibble (Ngāti Porou/Te Whānau ā Apanui) is a poet and writer based in Te Whanganui a Tara. In 2017, she completed a Master’s degree in Creative Writing from the International Institute of Modern Letters, where she was the recipient of the Adam Foundation Prize in Creative Writing. She is the author of two books, Pōukahangatus, which received the Jessie Mackay Prize for Poetry at the 2019 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards, and her second collection, Rangikura (2021).

Dream Chambers is the moniker for multifaceted composer and live electronic performer Jess Chambers. She creates immersive performances using modular synthesizers and voice, blending songcraft with experimental electronic practice.

Originally emerging as a singer-songwriter – winning Best Country Song at APRA AMCOS in 2008 and gaining early recognition with The Woolshed Sessions – she has since evolved into a boundary-pushing live artist working across electronic, experimental, and collaborative performance contexts, releasing five solo albums and contributing to over a dozen collaborative recordings.

She is currently developing new performance-driven work for modular synthesizer and vocal ensemble with support from the CNZ Fellowship Fund, and co-facilitates Techno Echo, a collective creating space for women and gender-diverse creatives to learn music technology.

Janina Smolira is a freelance contemporary dance artist from Tāmaki Makaurau, now based in Te Whanganui-a-Tara. They are currently undertaking Master’s Study at Toi Whakaari.

Janina has a passion for crafting Contemporary Dance that queries and nudges against the borders of theatre and performance. They are interested in crafting intimate works where performers and audience cohabitate to investigate matters of the flesh and heart.

Trinity Maydon is a contemporary dance artist originally from Ōtepoti Dunedin and a graduate from the New Zealand School of Dance. Since graduating, Trinity has been taking her first steps as a freelance artist, exploring and discovering her unique voice within the art form of dance. Trinity has always been drawn to the ways in which we use our bodies to tell stories, how we can shape ourselves to physicalise our ideas and express them into the world.

Alistair Fraser (Pākehā) is a manu whakatangitangi, composer, maker, and researcher of ngā taonga puoro, active since 1999. He has released acclaimed albums including Mahurangi and Bird Like Men, and co-composed the octaphonic installation Te Wheke.

He co-curated Pūoro Tū, Aotearoa’s first taonga puoro festival and is a former researcher with Hokotehi Moriori Trust and University of Otago, Fraser has also conducted international research as a Churchill Fellow.

Te Papa acknowledges the British Council New Zealand and the Pacific for their support of the Breathe | Mauri Ora Events Season.

Event featured in Aotearoa New Zealand Festival of the Arts 2026 programme

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