It's fun, it's social and it gets you fit. Nicky Pellegrino quick-steps through Auckland's large and exciting dance scene.

Mitimiti has its beginnings in choreographer Jack Gray's personal journey in search of a closer connection with his Te Rarawa heritage and marae in the Hokianga.

Perri Exeter is a choreographer and dance teacher at Rutherford College where her students got the best scholarship results in New Zealand.

From high-school teacher to a professional in the art of burlesque dancing - Natalie Hugill, left, has done it all.

If you are going to do fairies there can be no holding back, so wunderkind English choreographer Liam Scarlett unashamedly mixes.

Duncan Armstrong is a professional dancer for the Touch Compass dance company. The 26-year-old Wellingtonian talks to Jennifer Dann.

Dance, dance, wherever you may be - at least that's what the cast of Lord of the Dance were doing yesterday.

Solange Knowles wants to be a Destiny's Child backing dancer again.

This second season of NOW - New Original Works - truly reflects its name, with four confidently emerging new choreographers, expressing some very original concepts, beautifully performed by the talented and extremely hard-working team of five dancers.

The radio host praised for his fit "dad-bod" says he nearly faked a sickie.

No need for shivering at home in the mid-winter blast, you can find some seasonal sparkle in our top five list this weekend.

Rain is predicted, so we can legitimately head indoors for some winter treats.

The athletic villains steal this Imperial Ice Stars storybook show from the start. You can detect the baddies by their black netting and heavy metal head scarves, and by the dry ice preceding their every arrival.

This Saturday, hot on the heels of media titan Rupert Murdoch making his succession plans public, comes the Auckland premiere of a play about his life.

Hayley Holt has been turning heads recently after joining the judging panel of Dancing with the Stars.

An ice-skating extravaganza returns - and it has more drama and bigger stunts, choreographer Tony Mercer tells Stephen Jewell.

Kiwi dancer Parris Goebel is set to unleash her killer dance moves on Janet Jackson.

Don't know what to do with yourself this weekend? We've handpicked the top five things to do around Auckland.

Beautiful beyond belief, an exotic Caribbean flock, the dancers are spectacularly talented and drawn from a nation "born to dance".

A young Janet Jackson fan from Mt Wellington is one of 10 dancers from around the globe selected to tour the world with the 49-year-old pop music legend.

The dancing ‘soldier boys’ perfectly translate human strength and fragility in the war, writes Bernadette Rae.