The New Zealand School of Dance (NZSD) has announced that Director Garry Trinder MNZM will retire at the end of 2027, following three decades of contribution to the School and the wider dance community. Keep Reading
Continuing their unwavering commitment to develop emerging artists and new work, Atamira Dance Company are proud to combine the energies of young artists, senior practitioners, and new technologies to present KAHA – Tripleboost, playing for a limited season at Q Theatre from 7 - 9 July. 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
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
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
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
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Bjorn Aslund, is a contemporary dancer, burlesque performer and queer drag artist based in Wellington. A recent graduate from the New Zealand School of Dance, their original choreography mixes contemporary dance with drag performance. Their new work Plato’s Atlantis will feature in the triple bill Situations in Play at the NZ Fringe at Te... Keep Reading
The year 2018 will open with a bang with both the NZ Festival and Auckland Arts Festival taking place in February/March. Keep Reading
Global dance superstar Parris Goebel will launch NZ Dance Week 2017 at 2pm Saturday 22 April in Aotea Square, in Auckland. The launch will also feature Auckland Live's Dance-o-Mat. Keep Reading
From 8-26 March 2017, the Auckland Arts Festival will envelop the city in creativity, beauty, light and sound, emotion, horror, comedy and dazzling brilliance. The 2017 programme is a superb, can’t-stay-away line up of performance and visual arts, which includes three incredible dance shows from prestigous Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan,... Keep Reading
The Royal New Zealand Ballet's 2017 season line-up is filled with passion, tragedy, rhythm and energy. Keep Reading
The Pacific Dance New Zealand Choreolab is in its eighth year and the 2016 recipients are Filoi Vaila'au, Joash Fahitua and Selina Alefosio. This year the choreolab will be taking place in Wellington. Keep Reading
A preview of the festivals coming up this September and October. Including TEMPO, Nelson Arts Festival and the InterACT Disability Festival. Keep Reading
The Arts Council expects to invest about $40.7 million in the arts in the 2016/17 financial year and will introduce new measures to provide the arts sector with more certainty over funding levels if forecast revenue changes significantly throughout a year. Keep Reading