Tempo is a pan-genre dance festival delivered by the New Zealand Dance Festival Trust, which proudly takes place in the city of Tāmaki Makaurau in October of each year. Every year the festival showcases inspirational dance artistry that reflects the rich cultural dynamism of our country. The festival exists to celebrate the vitality of dance in Aotearoa, to offer dance artists a platform and infrastructure to present their work, and to bring transformational dance experiences to the tamariki, rangatahi, mātua and kaumātua of Aotearoa. Tempo is delivered by a small team of industry experts who have created a highly collaborative and nurturing working environment. In wanting to ensure the organisation has a strong standing in the arts sector as it moves toward an exciting and complex future, the team has recently refined the organisation’s strategic objectives.