About
Good Company Arts (GCA) was co-founded by Te Tumu Toi Arts Laureate and artistic director Daniel Belton and creative producer Donnine Harrison. GCA creates live events, exhibitions and installations through the fusion of multiple art forms. Our work has been produced and presented for theatres, art galleries, museums, fashion shows, found spaces, architectural and media facades, cinemas, planetariums, virtual reality and web platforms. Project based, working from southern Aotearoa New Zealand, we are internationally recognised as arts and design innovators, combining contemporary dance and choreographic process with film, music, fine arts, motion graphics, couture, digital cinema and AV technologies. The company is registered in Aotearoa New Zealand as a Charitable Trust.
Donnine Harrison, Creative Producer
Daniel Belton, Director
Good Company Arts is a leading voice in extending performing arts beyond the conventional stage. Renowned artists work together through the leadership of Daniel and Donnine to produce unique multi-modal projects. Collaboration between artists is the key to creative genesis and to sharing our stories. We bring ideas from our respective places of origin and cultures, to an open space where these concepts can find coherence inside common visions. Projects become springboards for inter-cultural fluency, learning and reciprocity. Stories that highlight our relationship to the natural world through movement and sound are central to this vision of unity, which is about celebrating diversity in life.
Good Company Arts has successfully presented with many festivals and arts organisations including Zentrum Paul Klee, Cinedans, Dance Films Association New York, Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires, Attakkalari India Biennial, Romaeuropa Festival, World Stage Design Festivals, Genius Loci Weimar International Video Mapping Festival, Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space, Festival Internacional de la Imagen and ISEA, Bibliothèque et Archives Nationales du Québec Montreal, Linoleum International Festival of Contemporary Animation and Media Art Moscow, Canariasmediafest International Video and Multimedia Festival, IDN Festival Barcelona, Channel4 UK, ReelDance Sydney, The Arts House Singapore, Soundislands Festival Singapore, Tokyo Denki University, Tokyo Zokei University, Gallery OUT of PLACE Japan, Aarhus Festival Denmark, TTV Performing Arts on Screen Italy, N.O.W DanceSaar Internationales Tanzfestival Germany, xm:lab, Bauhaus University Weimar, Sapienza University Rome, Ryerson University Toronto, Massey University New Zealand Toi Rauwhārangi College of Creative Arts, Waikato University New Zealand, iD Fashion Dunedin, University of Otago New Zealand, New Zealand School of Music, Stroma Music Ensemble, New Zealand School of Dance, Dowse Museum New Zealand, Ngā Taonga Sound and Vision New Zealand Film Archive, Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Toitū Otago Settlers Museum, Dunedin Arts Festival, Otago Museum Planetarium, Tempo Dance Festival, Royal New Zealand Ballet, Arts Fission Company Singapore, Tokyo Performing Arts Meeting, Belloo Creative Australia and Idiot Savant Theater Co Japan, San Francisco Dance Film Festival, ICMC Korea, Dance Aotearoa New Zealand, Asian Events Trust New Zealand, Corrina Bonshek and Collaborators Australia, DUOBUD South Korea, Auckland University of Technology, Auckland Central Library, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, National Library of New Zealand - Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, Te Whare Taonga o Waikato - Waikato Museum, The Arts Centre Te Matatiki Toi Ora Ōtautahi-Christchurch, Xintiandi Festival Shanghai, Niio.art, Esports Digital Art Prizes with Niio and Cyberport Hong Kong, Sino x Niio Illumination Art Prize Hong Kong, Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, National Museum of Singapore, Festival After Cage Pamplona, Museo de Navarra, Te Ahurei Toi o Tāmaki Auckland Arts Festival, Manatū Taonga Ministry for Culture & Heritage, Creative New Zealand Toi Aotearoa and Asia New Zealand Foundation Te Whītau Tūhono.
Collaborating Artists include - Janessa Dufty, Jill Goh, Christina Guieb, Nancy Wijohn, Kelly Nash, Amit Noy, Airu Matsuda, Samara Reweti, Taane Mete, Simon Kaan, Rachael Rakena, Kahu Collective (Lisa Harding and Raranga Artists), Alistair Fraser, Ariana Tikao, Dr Ruby Solly, Mahina-Ina Kingi-Kaui, Dame Gillian Karawe Whitehead, Sir Jon Trimmer, Katie Hurst-Saxon, Verity Jacobsen, Courtney Poulier, Dr Anthony Ritchie, Jan-Bas Bollen, Michael Norris, Hamish McKeich, Dr Jim Murphy, Dr Rachel Krische, Tom Ward, Alex Leonhartsberger, Laura Saxon-Jones, Abigail Boyle, Jacob Chown, Alayna Ng, Tonia Looker, Katherine Minor, Lucy Margaux-Marinkovich, Kiki Miwa, Stephanie Halyburton, Neve Pierce, Jahra Wasasala, Kate Sylvester, Tanya Carlson, Jeong-Hee Shin, Sean Feldman, Henrik Elburn, Peter Belton, Simon O’Connor, Dr Martin Lodge, Kim Garrett, Melanie Hamilton, Kristian Larsen, Simon Ellis, Sophie Ryan, Caroline Claver, Richard Huber, Bronwyn Judge, Joanna O’Keefe, Warwick Long, Tim Fletcher, Emma Martin, Brydie Colquhoun, Pamela Sidhu, Simone Lapka, Michael Gudgeon, Andrew Miller, Alexandra Ford, Mathew Roffe, Juliet Fay, Paul Mitchell, Paula Smart, Terence Dennis, Paul Booth, Ann Culy, Kilda Northcott, Emmett Hardie, Bradon McCaughey, Meri Otoshi, Dr Michael Askill, Josef Belton, PJ Illustration, Dr Patxi Araujo, Dr PerMagnus Lindborg, Dr Joyce Beetuan Koh, Matua Nigel Jenkins, Matua Tony Smith, Justin Cederholm, Dr Richard Nunns, Stuart Foster, Xiao Ke and Zi Han, Kay Watanabe, Katherine-Lyall-Watson, Koh-Toh-Shi, Nao Akao, Yasuhiro Kondo, Chikako Arai, Jac Grenfell (KANO) and Mark de Clive-Lowe.
Good Company Arts is honoured to work with Liana Harrison (Ngāi Tahu, Waitaha, Kati Mamoe, Ngāti Tama, Ngāti Toa, Te Atiawa) of Collaborative Aotearoa, supporting our Māori and Pasifika partnerships. Liana is 1/4 Samoan. Her grandfather came to Aotearoa in 1956 from Nofoalii on the main Island of Upolu in Western Samoa.