Tributes are flowing for lauded New Zealand choreographer and dancer Douglas Wright MNZM, who died last night aged 62.
The master of contemporary dance had been in hospice care with terminal cancer since last month.
Actor Joel Tobeck posted on Twitter: "Douglas Wright. RIP. Being taught by you was the highlight of my time in the dance world. So inspiring and so much soul ... Amazing, amazing, amazing."
Jonathan Bielski, the Auckland Arts Festival's Artistic Director, wrote: "Vale Douglas Wright MZNM. Choreographer. Dancer. Artist. Arts Laureate. One of Aotearoa's great artists."
Born in Tuakau, Auckland, in 1956, Wright joined the contemporary Limbs Dance Company in 1980 before launching his career overseas with the Paul Taylor Company in New York and the DV8 Physical Theatre in London.