Olivia McGregor (Muaūpoko, Ngāti Raukawa) is a dance artist from Te Awa Kairangi ki Tai, Lower Hutt. Olivia has performed around Europe and Aotearoa in dance theatre, performance art installations and film with companies including Atamira Dance Company, Footnote New Zealand Dance, The New Zealand Dance Company, Constanza Macras- Dorky Park, July Weber, Andre Uerba and Matteo Graziano. Her Choreographic work has been presented at Tiny Festival (2024).

2026

Wellesley Summer Residency/ Celia Hext/ Auckland, New Zealand

Perth Moves Wellesley Bursary recipient/ Strut Dance/Boorloo, Western Australia

2025

Destination Earth/ Cellule Studio/ Atamira Dance Company

Kia Pohewatia/ Atamira Dance Company/ Auckland New Zealand

Together, Yes/ Ross McCormack/ New Zealand Dance Company/ Contact Dance Festival/Singapore

The Buried Tiki/ Bianca Hyslop, Rowan Pierce, Tui Ranapiri Ransfield / Auckland New Zealand

Commentary of Dreaming/ Jeremy Beck, Company Beck / Dunedin, New Zealand

Wrest/ Red Leap Theatre / Auckland New Zealand

Soft Phase/ Olivia McGregor / Make Shift evening / Perth, Australia

2024

Soft Phase/ Olivia McGregor / Tiny Festival, Christchurch New Zealand

Tātai Whetu/ Atamira Dance Company / Tempo Dance Festival, Auckland New Zealand

Errant/ Amit Noy / Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki/ Auckland New Zealand

Wellesley Studios Short Term Residency/ Auckland New Zealand

Atlas Choreographic Training Programme / ImPulsTanz / Vienna Austria

Embryonic Punch/ Bec Jensen/ Auckland New Zealand

Pedestrian Guidance/ Josie and Kosta / Performance Arcade, Wellington New Zealand

Dance, Danced, Dancing (2024)/Josie and Kosta / Summer at Q, Auckland New Zealand

2023

Movement Art Practice Reciprocal Residency/ Christchurch New Zealand

Artefact/ The New Zealand Dance Company- Ross McCormack / Tauranga Arts Festival

Once More With Feeling/ David Huggins / Festival of Live Art (F.O.L.A), Auckland New Zealand

Extanz Vol. 2/ Katrina Bastian / Development, Auckland New Zealand

Resisting Extinction/ Body Cartography Project / The Performance Arcade, Wellington New Zealand

2022

Artefact/ The New Zealand Dance Company, Dunedin Arts Festival, Nelson Arts Festival/ Auckland War Memorial Museum/
The Arts Centre Te Matatiki Toi Ora

Permanent Distraction/ Josie and Kosta/Christchurch New Zealand

Daybreak Estate/ Jesse McCall /Christchurch New Zealand, Auckland New Zealand

Footnote Dance Company - Choreolab / Tutor

2021

Solo for a body/ Alice Weber- / Tiny Festival/ Christchurch, New Zealand

Extanz Vol. 1, AN EPIC ON POWER/ Katrina Bastian / Tiny Festival/ Christchurch, New Zealand

POOLSIDE/ Olivia Webb, Julia Harvey / Movement Art Practice / Christchurch, New Zealand

Let's talk shop/ New Zealand Dance Company-Josie and Kosta / Monster Valley / Auckland, New Zealand

Closer/ Footnote New Zealand Dance- The Body Cartography Project / The Performance Arcade/ Wellington, New Zealand

2020

Cathartic Technology/ Jeremy Shaw / Centre Pompidou / Paris France

The Politics of Dreaming/ Alexa Wilson/ March- Residency Wellesley Studios/ Auckland New Zealand

Performing Object I David Huggins / Experimental Dance Week Aotearoa/ Auckland New Zealand

Once More With Feeling/ David Huggins /Little Andromeda/Christchurch New Zealand

Dance.Mov/ Josie and Kosta / Research Development/ Christchurch Art and Culture Centre,

2019

Togethering/ Body Cartography Project / Schous Plass, Oslo Norway

Deep Sky Objects/ Matteo Graziano / Open Spaces, Ufer Studios Berlin Germany

Sight Seeing/ Julian Weber /STUK, Playground Festival, Leuven Belgium/ Ujazdowski Castle/ Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw Poland

Streaming/ Julian Weber / Bangkok Art and Cultural Centre, Bangkok Thailand

Brancusi Bewegen/ Julian Weber/Oliver Connew / PACT Zollverein, Essen Germany

2018

Sight Seeing/ Julian Weber/ Open Spaces, Ufer Studios Berlin Germany

D.R.A.G/ Wilhelm Gröener / Open Spaces, Ufer Studios Berlin Germany

Burn Time/ Andre Uerba / Open Spaces, Ufer Studios Berlin Germany

Something/ Constanza Macras- Dorky Park / Verlin studios, Berlin Germany

Lisa Densem (Sacha Waltz & Guests)/ Research Period, Berlin Germany

The Time It takes To Melt My Heart/ Judith Förster / Ada Studio, Berlin Germany

2016-2017

The Bony Labyrinth/ Julian Weber / Hau 2, Berlin Germany/ La Part Mortelle/ Brussels, Belgium

2011-2015/ FOOTNOTE DANCE COMPANY/ Wellington, New Zealand

Hullapolloi/ Kate McIntosh & Jo Randerson

We Have Been There/ Lisa Densem (Sacha Waltz & Guests)

(SEX)/ Ross McCormack

Body Fight Time/ Malia Johnson,

Colt/ Sarah Foster-Sproull

2008-2010/ The New Zealand School of Dance

Diploma in Dance Performance