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
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
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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
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Kōrero Te Kanikani is presented as a collaboration between DANZ and Tempo; an opportunity for the industry to dialogue about our future and work together to develop strategies to support and advance the sector. 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
A creative team from the University of Auckland will be heading off to Austria next month to take part in a world-leading digital art and technology festival. Keep Reading
The Pacific Dance Choreographic Lab (Choreolab) 2017 is back and calling for 'Expressions of Interest' from Pacific Dance Artists wishing to work in co-lab to develop new, fresh and inspiring creative dance works. 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