Potiki Bryant's works are frequently accompanied by music composed by her husband, musician Paddy Free, and she often collaborates with other artists, including clay sculptor Paerau Corneal, singer-songwriter Ariana Tikao, scholar Te Ahukaramū Charles Royal and Canadian multidisciplinary artist Santee Smith.
[1] Works she has choreographed for the company include Te Aroha me te mamae (a 2003 work based on the life of a Ngāi Tahu mother and grandmother and her experiences under colonisation), Ngāi Tahu 32 (awarded Best Contemporary Dance Production 2004 by the New Zealand Listener),[8] TAONGA: Dust Water Wind (awarded Best Production, Best Music and Best Scenography at the 2010 Tempo Dance Festival)[8][9] and Onepū (a 2018 work based on legends told by Ngāi Tahu about female deities who control the wind).
[10] The latter, a video installation and performance series, was presented at Te Uru Waitakere Contemporary Gallery as part of the Auckland Arts Festival in 2015.
A review in The New Zealand Herald described it as a "stunning collaboration", featuring "Bryant's lithe, beautiful and deeply expressive body tracing the evolution of rock, through water, to clay and, in Corneal's strong hands, the female form".
[13] Almost all of her works feature music by her husband Paddy Free, who is part of Christchurch electronic duo Pitch Black.
[18] From 2005 to 2013 she collaborated with artist and academic Te Ahukaramū Charles Royal to produce artworks including dance work Te Kārohirohi: The Light Dances (2010–2012) and the community project Whakaahua: Coming to Form (2014), which was based on his research into traditional Māori houses of entertainment (whare tapere).
[21][22][8] In 2009 she was funded by Creative New Zealand to undertake an internship with Santee Smith, the artistic director of Kaha:wi Dance Theatre based in Toronto.