Experimental Dance Week Aotearoa (NZ) is very excited to announce that it will be going ahead with its live festival this year 30th November - 5th December 2020 at Herald Theatre thanks to Auckland Live. Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the festival was postponed from June 2020, and given that it was previously half-international the new... Keep Reading
During Lockdown Java Dance Theatre matched up more than 50 musicians and dancers from around the world for 101 improvised duets over Zoom. Now Java will bring 24 of the musicians and dancers together in Wellington to improvise together and create duets. Follow their process online and dip your toe into a world of creative collisions, new... Keep Reading
Skills Active Aotearoa is the industry training organisation for performing arts. They work with industry to create work-based qualifications and help organisations to get their people trained up. They are currently developing the unit standards for New Zealand Certificates in Performing Arts Instruction, Level 5... Keep Reading
Auckland company Audio Described Aotearoa has received international recognition for its efforts in providing audio description for blind and low vision arts patrons, particularly during New Zealand’s COVID-19 lockdown. Keep Reading
DIGITAL SPACE TRANSFORMED BY PACIFIC HERITAGE Pacific Dance New Zealand presentThe Transform Series Testament to their creativity and ability to adapt, Pacific Dance New Zealand (PDNZ) are proud to introduce a brand-new digital initiative The Transform Series, launching on Wednesday 24 June, 2020. Consisting of 10 episodes of... Keep Reading
Iosefa Enari (Sefa) - Founder of Pacific Dance NZ - has been awarded a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to Pacific Dance. Sefa was a founding member of Pacific Theatre in 1987. He trained as a professional dancer at LIMBS Dance Programme, UNITEC School of Performing Arts and holds a masters degree in Dance Studies from... Keep Reading
The Board of the New Zealand Dance Advancement Trust today announced the appointment of former Nederlands Dans Theater chief executive Janine Dijkmeijer as The New Zealand Dance Company’s (NZDC) Executive Director; and renowned dance artists and directors Victoria (Tor) Colombus and James O’Hara, as Co-Artistic Directors. Keep Reading
Arts Access Aotearoa is pleased to host the free RNZB Live in Your Living Room audio described Giselle broadcasts. It will be available this weekend on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Keep Reading
Dance Aotearoa New Zealand (DANZ) is excited to be launching its new Social Media Takeover Season this week, kicking off twelve weeks of creative inspiration and sharing from New Zealand dance artists practising across a range of genres. At a time when many freelance dance artists have lost valuable opportunities for work and creative outlet. Keep Reading
Royal New Zealand Ballet’s announcement in April that it would livestream videos of previous productions, making them available to a global online audience, was seen by Audio Described Aotearoa as an opportunity to include blind patrons in the audience. Keep Reading
Aotearoa's foremost integrated professional performance company, Touch Compass, has appointed Pelenakeke Brown as its new interim Artistic Director. She is the first artist with a disability to lead the company. Keep Reading
TOUCH COMPASS APPOINTS AWARD-WINNING PERFORMANCE ARTIST AS INTERIM ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Aotearoa's foremost integrated professional performance company, Touch Compass, has appointed Pelenakeke Brown as its new interim Artistic Director. She will be the first artist with a disability to lead the company in its history. For nearly 25 years... Keep Reading
Kristie Mortimer, recipient of the 2020 Caroline Plummer Fellowship administered by Otago University, will research and write a resource on how to teach dance in prisons and in the wider community. Keep Reading
OneMusic licenses the dance community for the public performance of music within APRA and Recorded Music NZ’s (RMNZ) repertoire. Many of you will hold this license which enables you to use the repertoire that APRA and RMNZ represent in your teaching. The OneMusic Dance Instruction licence would not normally cover the use of music in... Keep Reading
Although many of the wonderful festival season shows were cut short or cancelled recently due to the Covid-19 crisis, we want to acknowledge and appreciate the amazing work that was put into each and every one of them - our hearts go out to all of the artists/technicians/organisers affected. Here is a collection of reviews of a number of the... Keep Reading
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