Touch Compass will present a double bill of dance-theatre exploring disability, technology and motherhood at Te Pou Theatre in Auckland from 26 to 28 February. Keep Reading

An invitation to perform at the Gathered Together festival in Glasgow in September 2024 is one of the opportunities Christchurch Jolt dance company is keen to take up to showcase its dancers’ skills. Keep Reading

  Fringe/NZ Fringe/Wellington Fringe has been presenting eclectic arts to audiences in the Capital for 32 years. As an open-access festival Fringe does not select or curate content, instead allowing anyone to register an event and perform or present whatever they choose. Arts offerings tend to be multidisciplinary, and cover everything... Keep Reading

In the 1950s, Kerr danced with prestigious dance companies in Europe, including Ballet Rambert, Sadler’s Wells, and Festival Ballet. He returned to his home country to lead New Zealand Ballet in the 1960s, the New Zealand Dance Centre in the 1970s, and the Southern Ballet Theatre in Christchurch from 1978 to 1990. Keep Reading

Dance audiences are spoilt for choice this summer arts festival season; from smaller outdoor performances to large scale world-premiere productions, there is a wide variety to experience. Here is a sample of what’s coming up in February and March, and please see the full programmes for more. Keep Reading

ROYAL NEW ZEALAND BALLET’S VENUS RISING ASCENDS AGAIN The Royal New Zealand Ballet’s (RNZB) spectacular programme of three ballets – Venus Rising – will open the company’s 2022 season. Originally cancelled due to COVID in 2020, this much-anticipated programme will now finally, radiantly, make its way to Wellington, Christchurch and... Keep Reading

After a hiatus of two years due to COVID-19, Performance Art Week Aotearoa is returning to Wellington for four packed days of exciting, challenging, and engaging performance works. This year two dance works are taking on the festival's theme of Public/Private. For Performance Art Week Aotearoa 2021, Rachel Ruckstuhl-Mann and Alana Yee will... Keep Reading

With much celebration, the Royal New Zealand Ballet (RNZB) presents its 2022 season, comprising two glorious ‘story ballets’ and two dazzling programmes of shorter works. Ballets and productions by some of the country’s – and the world’s – most respected choreographers will touch down in theatres across the country... Keep Reading

Join Touch Compass as they celebrate their 25th Anniversary on 14 September in Tāmaki Makaurau for an exciting evening of groundbreaking performance honouring the past, present and future: /rītaha/./rītaha/ is a performing arts festival of digital works, tactile installations, improvised and choreographed dance, innovative theatre and... Keep Reading

Shel We Dance? Pacific Dance New Zealand Announces Festival Program for June 2021 All it took was for the common cold to develop into a pandemic to throw the world of entertainment into chaos and drive creatives who thrive in live theatre and on stages to retreat into quarantine. Festivals were cancelled, live performances delayed,... Keep Reading

Presented by Tour-Makers in partnership with Movement of the Human MEREMEREPerformer and creator Rodney Bell (Ngāti Maniapoto)Director Malia JohnstonThe show that has received numerous standing ovations, glittering reviews and a fistful of awards is back on tour as Meremere tours to Auckland, Bannockburn, Wanaka, Invercargill, New Plymouth,... Keep Reading

The Auckland Arts Festival/Te Ahurei Toi o Tāmaki (AAF) team is working through the implications of Auckland’s return to lockdown for its 2021 programme, following the announcement that Tāmaki Makaurau would enter Alert Level 3 at 6am this morning, Sunday 28 February. Keep Reading

ROYAL NEW ZEALAND BALLET’S CHOREOGRAPHER IN RESIDENCE, LOUGHLAN PRIOR, TO PREMIERE NEW DANCE FILM ON DIGITAL STREAMING PLATFORM, FLTPK.COM A new dance film is coming to FLTPK (flatpack) - an innovative way to access new dance films created by world class artists. Recently featured in the Guardian, FLTPK was founded... Keep Reading

Caroline Plummer Fellowship in Community Dance recipient Lucy Marinkovich is an experienced practitioner who values community engagement. Marinkovich is an artist, choreographer, educator, practitioner and performer who has worked with young people and those with disabilities, as well as with professional dancers. Through her proposed... Keep Reading

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