NIKITA 雅涵

Nikita 雅涵 (Ya-Han) Tu-Bryant is a Taiwan-born Aotearoa Artist who has been working as a multidisciplinary artist for 17 years. She has spent the last decade flowing between acting roles and music, poetry and visual arts, making work and serving her communities with vision, intelligence and strength.

Through her roles as a performing musician, a film/theatre actor and director, visual artist, teacher, music therapist, band manager and producer, she has collaborated with artists from all over the world. Recently, wiith her Pōneke based band •KITA• she has performed in WOMAD, Splore and completed a New Zealand wide tour with their third EP release, ‘Love Lives Here’. Nikita will be soon releasing her first release as a solo artist since 2016, having just been awarded a NZ ON AIR grant for her upcoming bilingual single ‘Chasing Summer’, a collaboration with producer ‘An Ogre’.

Tu-Bryant is currently finishing the most ambitious work of her career to date, a 4-part film titled LOVE LIVES HERE, inspired by the band’s latest EP. This project is intended to be finished by 2025 to be toured at Film, Art and Music Festivals.

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  • Nikita has collaborated with artists from all over the world, from non-english speakers in Japan, to her apprenticeship in New York with Chinese Theatreworks, as well as her time puppeteering and playing music in Vermont at Bread & Puppet Theatre.

  • Nikita has just completed a nationwide tour with her Pōneke based trio •KITA• (Tu-Bryant, Ed Zuccollo, Rick Cranson) touring their 3rd release Love Lives Here EP produced by Tomasso Colliva (Grammy-award producer).

  • Currently working on the most ambitious work of her career to date, the 4-part film titled LOVE LIVES HERE, inspired by her band’s latest EP. Not only is Tu-Bryant the main writer and director for her latest work, she is also the main producer and actor in the film, and the main composer of the sound design.

NEWS

World Of Wearable Arts

September 26 - October 13

Multi-talented Tu-Bryant, who lives in the capital Wellington’s Newtown, says there is perhaps no better show to incorporate all the mediums she loves telling stories with: acting, music, theatrics, movement.

“My character isn't stagnant ‒ she’s forever shape shifting. So I get to just really play……….I’m stoked. I just want to nail it,” she said in an interview with The Post.

Chasing Summer

What becomes of the brokenhearted, when you’re off chasing Summer?

‘Chasing Summer’ is a first time collaboration between Nikita 雅涵 Tu-Bryant and An Ogre. For Nikita, ‘Chasing Summer’ is the first release under her solo artist name since 2016.

‘My parts in Chasing Summer were written in my van on the long drives in between touring cities. I am often on the road, and people have commented on how boring my road trips must be as I prefer my 3-9 hour stints in silence. That’s often when the ideas come. When you have constant information and sound coming in, it’s hard to hear your own thoughts, or your ideas. Chasing Summer was no exception. I was driving back to Pōneke from Tāmaki Makaurau, when I wrote the melody and lyrics to this song. This love song is inspired by the narrative of changing only the good times.’

RECENT WORKS

  • •KITA•

    Having just completed a NZ wide tour with her Pōneke based trio •KITA•, Nikita toured their 3rd release Love Lives Here EP produced by Tomasso Colliva.

  • The John Landreth Project

    Intuition-led music and creative therapy sessions with John Landreth; composition and storytelling of one's own story for recovery. Music video and mini-documentary currently in post production.

  • Far North / TV Series

    Nikita plays the character 'Hui' in Aotearoa’s highly praised TV Series Far North directed by David White, starring Temuera Morrison and Robyn Malcolm.

  • Avatar: The Way of Water / Film

    Recent screen work includes her appearance as a sub-pilot in James Cameron’s AVATAR: THE WAY OF WATER.

  • Sik Fan Lah! / TV Series

    Nikita was the co-composer for the theme tune of Sik Fan Lah! A culinary adventure across Aotearoa, uncovering stories of modern Kiwi-Chinese life through our universal love for food.