New National Contemporary Dance Company Initiative
Seeing Sylvie Guillem and Russell Maliphant inspired choreographer Shona McCullagh to launch a national company that might attract similar-sized audiences for contemporary Kiwi dance. [more]
Dance
The Sleeping Beauty review
This new production of The Sleeping Beauty is full of artistry and vigour. [more]
Ethan Stiefel interview
As The Sleeping Beauty begins, the new artistic director of the RNZB discusses his move from New York to Wellington. [more]
Tempo Dance Festival review No 1
Traditional and contemporary dance combines to celebrate two decades of work. [more]
Te Houhi review
Atamira Dance Company’s works draw strongly on history, confronting and reshaping contemporary Aotearoa identity with artistry and power. So it was in their latest work, Maaka Pepene’s Te Houhi. This time the story is about the crippling Treaty breaches inflicted by the crown on a Tuhoe hapu in Te Urewera.
Framed... [more]
Weg: A-Way review
Choreographer Alexa Wilson’s German stay was a baptism of fire, but it inspired festival hit Weg:... [more]
Random Acts of God and Other Stories review
The arbitrariness of life’s blows prevails in choreographer Julia Milsom’s post-earthquake... [more]
Tilt, Fleur de Thier and company
The ground shifts and slides with almost seismic energy beneath dancers’ feet in Christchurch choreographer Fleur de Thier’s latest... [more]
New National Contemporary Dance Company Initiative
Seeing Sylvie Guillem and Russell Maliphant inspired choreographer Shona McCullagh to launch a national company that might attract similar-sized audiences for contemporary Kiwi dance. [more]
Shine Lady by Ann Dewey
A maze of feminine intricacy [more]
Cameron McMillan
The choreographer behind one of the three in the RNZB's Stravinsky Selection, which opened last night, talks about ballet for the 21st century. [more]
It’s a rapt
Illness has sapped choreographer Douglas Wright's energy levels, but he was determined to complete his celebratory new work. [more]
‘We are not doing sports’
French choreographer Maguy Marin insists on a sense of the poetic and the political. [more]