Known for his dedication to supporting the arts sector across many roles, Brian Wood will join Footnote New Zealand Dance in January 2022 as General Manager. Currently Acting Director at The New Zealand Portrait Gallery Te Pūkenga Whakaata Brian brings a rich and varied set of skills and attributes to the position. He has a strong... Keep Reading
Dance and Arts advocates named in 2021 Queen's Birthday Honours Among the 2021 Queen's Birthday Honours are Jamie Bull, who has been made an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit (ONZM) for services to the performing arts and the community, Richard Benge (executive director of Arts Access... Keep Reading
New Year Honours: Prudence Anne Gooch made a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services in dance. Prudence Gooch established the Prue Gooch School of Dance in Tauranga in 1976, which led to the establishment of the Dance Education Centre in 1990. She has been Director of the Dance Education Centre since inception and has organised... 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
ANNOUNCEMENT Wellesley Studios Summer Choreographic Residency 2021 Wellesley Studios, supported by Dance Aotearoa New Zealand, are pleased to announce their 2021 Summer Residency Artist – Tyler Carney. Since graduating Ev and Bow (Sydney, 2012) and the New Zealand School of Dance (2015), Tyler has been a performer for House... Keep Reading
2020 marks the 11th year the Pacific Dance Choreographic Lab will be presented in Aotearoa New Zealand. This annual project is for emerging mid-career Pacific dance artists in Aotearoa as a platform to explore and incubate their own ideas and develop as choreographers in a supportive environment. The choreographic lab fosters creativity,... Keep Reading
DANZ is super excited to be supporting the launch and presentation of this experimental project from Java Dance Theatre, which highlights the connection/process between dancers and musicians in creating new works under difficult times. As we navigate a world of fluctuating COVID-19 restrictions, artists are continuing to find innovative... 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
During Lockdown Java Dance Theatre matched up more than 50 musicians and dancers from around the world for 101 improvised duets over Zoom. Now Java will bring 24 of the musicians and dancers together in Wellington to improvise together and create duets. Follow their process online and dip your toe into a world of creative collisions, new... Keep Reading
Skills Active Aotearoa is the industry training organisation for performing arts. They work with industry to create work-based qualifications and help organisations to get their people trained up. They are currently developing the unit standards for New Zealand Certificates in Performing Arts Instruction, Level 5... Keep Reading
Iosefa Enari (Sefa) - Founder of Pacific Dance NZ - has been awarded a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to Pacific Dance. Sefa was a founding member of Pacific Theatre in 1987. He trained as a professional dancer at LIMBS Dance Programme, UNITEC School of Performing Arts and holds a masters degree in Dance Studies from... Keep Reading
OneMusic licenses the dance community for the public performance of music within APRA and Recorded Music NZ’s (RMNZ) repertoire. Many of you will hold this license which enables you to use the repertoire that APRA and RMNZ represent in your teaching. The OneMusic Dance Instruction licence would not normally cover the use of music in... Keep Reading
Although many of the wonderful festival season shows were cut short or cancelled recently due to the Covid-19 crisis, we want to acknowledge and appreciate the amazing work that was put into each and every one of them - our hearts go out to all of the artists/technicians/organisers affected. Here is a collection of reviews of a number of the... Keep Reading
In November, Olivia O’Brien was awarded the 2019 DANZ Dance Residency at The Arts Centre Te Matatiki Toi Ora in Christchurch. In an exciting new collaboration between DANZ, The Arts Centre and Movement Art Practice (MAP), the residency was hosted over two weeks in Christchurch, taking place in alignment with the inaugural Ōtautahi Tiny... Keep Reading
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