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Greer Robertson reviewes The Royal New Zealand Ballet's 'Bold Moves' programme. "Rapturous applause after each of the four pieces is testimony to a cohesive, perfectly-moulded presentation of dancers from a diverse international line-up...." Keep Reading
Kerri Fitzgerald reviews Footnote's 'The Clearing', choreographed by Ross McCormack... "Like Betroffenheit (Crystal Pite), McCormack is willing to tread new territory. Every dancer is beautifully controlled, totally committed, and clearly connected to the piece and to each other." Keep Reading
CHOCOLATE - JAVA DANCE THEATRE 10 July 2019, Te Auaha, Wellington Reviewed by Brigitte Knight "We started at the beginning of time and now we have reached dessert”. Java Dance Theatre’sArtistic Director and Creative New Zealand Fellow, Sacha Copland, initiated the company’s five-part Artisan series in 2011 with RI... Keep Reading
Let me count the ways this programme of Indian dance by 20 bejewelled female performers invites celebration. May as well count stars in the sky, grains of sand on the beach, drops of water in the ocean? Arithmetic is hardly the point, yet there are numerous good things in Shakti, themed with powerful female deities from the Hindu pantheon. The... Keep Reading
MAMAI’ATA Te Auaha theatre7 June 2019Choreographed by Te Hau WinitanaPerformers: Te Hau Winitana, Amanda Noblet, Ella Carling, Lily Ng Reviewed by Mona Williams Inano Dance performers presented Mamai’ata, which in the Cook Island language means The New Dawn. The opening scene presented women seated on the floor, draped in flow... Keep Reading
Pōhutu refers to the Southern Hemisphere’s largest active geyser, at Rotorua’s Whakarewarewa, a place of Mother Earth’s scalding, erupting water and violently bubbling mud pools. A duo of Bianca Hyslop and Rose Tapsell, embodied this powerfully restless, shape-shifting, earth-anchored fault-line to traverse the life history of... Keep Reading
“Truth depends on your angle of vision.” Having viewed the ballet from seats (low) in the stalls, I left the opening night’s performance of BlackSwan WhiteSwan dissatisfied with the narrative line and emotionally conflicted in spite of the technical excellence of the dancers and Radacovsky’s arresting choreography. I decided to view... Keep Reading
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Francesca Horsley reviews Te Ao Live: Experimental Dance Aotearoa NZ in the Early 21st Century, edited by Alexa Wilson. Keep Reading
Chris Connolly reviews 'Beyond Moving' a documentary about Siphe November, a young South African Dancer who leaves his home outside of Cape Town to pursue his dance dream at the Canada's National Ballet School. Keep Reading
Francesca Horsley reviews 'Grand Finale' by Hofesh Shechter Company at the 2019 Auckland Arts Festival. "...Shechter’s ten outstanding dancers – five men and four women - put on an electric performance that was both dynamic and powerful as it was disturbing." Keep Reading
Hamish McIntosh reviews Muscle Mouth's 'As It Stands' at the 2019 Auckland Arts Festival. "Theatrical without being sanguine; stirring without being indulgent, As It Stands asks questions we hesitate to pose as they compromise the ordered facade by which we navigate life." Keep Reading
Leah Maclean reviews 'Nobody Hears the Axe Fall' from Footnote's temporary dance company, ChoreoCo, at the NZ Fringe Festival. "The dancers embody an anguished state of being through spoken word and visceral choreographic sequences..." Keep Reading
Jess Holly Bates reviews 999: Trauma Centre/Power Centre by Alexa Wilson at the 2019 Auckland Fringe Festival. "999 demands a collective responsibility from everyone in the room – insisting on exactly the kind of spontaneous co-creation that our nation’s audiences struggle to muster." Keep Reading
Deirdre Tarrant reviews The Royal New Zealand Ballet's 'New Choreographic Series', a programme of new contemporary works. "This company is hardwired into our artistic DNA and this programme promises an exploration and a reach outward into the world of different dance. Exciting steps!" Keep Reading
As part of the Auckland Fringe Festival, Dance Plant Collective collaborated with Auckland-based electro-pop artist Boycrush to bring us infectious beats, mesmerizing movement and a night of pure magic. Keep Reading