Stella Grace Seawright is a movement artist and emerging choreographer based in Tāmaki Makaurau (Auckland). She trained at Unitec Institute of Technology, completing a Bachelor of Performing and Screen Arts (Contemporary Dance). Her early choreographic work debuted with The New Zealand Dance Company’s 2023 Emerging Artists Programme. She has collaborated with artists including Charles Koroneho (Ko Te Ākau), performed at Auckland Art Gallery, and for Te Wiki o Āhua. She works across dance, film, and music industries internationally. She is also a collaborator and dancer with Ctenophora Co, a contemporary dance collective in Auckland.

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Her practice is grounded in lived experience and somatic inquiry, exploring the body as a site of transformation through improvisation, gesture, and large wearable objects that challenge conventional ideas of form.

During her residency, Stella Grace will further develop her work Giving Over, continuing her exploration of grief, emotional thresholds, and embodied states between control and collapse. She will also train with Nara-based Butoh practitioner Seiji Tanaka as part of this research.

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We look forward to Stella Grace’s engagement with and interpretation of Nara.

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Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/stella.cwright/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@stellaseawright9889

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