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
YouthDance Education Trust (YET) will be celebrating 21 years with their annual International Dance Day (IDD) event at Te Papa in May. On May 2 Te Papa will be buzzing with dance activity to commemorate UNESCO’s International Dance Day, which aims to bring communities together through the common language of dance. For the past 21 years YET... 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
As the curtain closes on a year that has changed the world forever, the Royal New Zealand Ballet (RNZB) has proudly announced its 2021 season with a stunning lineup that celebrates the past and boldly looks to the future. From February, the RNZB... Keep Reading
The Royal New Zealand Ballet (RNZB) has today announced that, due to the extension of Level 3 restrictions in Auckland and Level 2 across the rest of the country, along with subsequent changes to the mass gathering rules under level 2 in Auckland, they have had to make further changes to the upcoming national tour of Venus Rising, including... 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 New Zealand School of Dance, the Royal Academy of Dance host the NZ première of the highly acclaimed film that tackles serious issues of bullying and negative stereotypes of males in dance, DANSEUR screens for the first time in New Zealand on Wednesday 3 October at Wellington’s Embassy Theatre. 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
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 Pacific Dance Festival 2016 brings together some of Aotearoa/New Zealand's finest contemporary Pacific dance talent in one place and over one week at the Mangere Arts Centre, Mangere, Auckland between June 13 and June 18. Keep Reading