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.

Taiaroa Royal's Okareka Dance Company has been selected to perform its popular show K'Rd Strip, a mixture of dance, kapa haka and drag, at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

As his good friend David Beckham told him, Michael Flatley knows that it's best to quit while he is ahead.

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.

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.

Nick Afoa has roared back to life after injury wrecked his All Black dream.

Long before Lolcats became a thing, Andrew Lloyd Webber brought our feline friends to the forefront of popular culture with his record-breaking musical Cats.

She is only 12 years old but her dance videos have been viewed more than a billion times on YouTube. As the public face of the reclusive Australian singer-songwriter Sia, little Maddie Ziegler has become one of the most famous pre-teens on the planet.

The Kiss Inside, an exposition on the primal search for ecstasy, finds him in a new frame of mind though, with an underlying wryness to his observations, anger mitigated, the passion wiser.

Since this is the first time New York dance company Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet has come to New Zealand, members can be forgiven for not being sunsmart.

The high school teacher producing the country's top dance scholars says the secret is treating the teenagers like "mini-professionals".

Katy Perry's widely mocked Left Shark nailed his brief, according to a Super Bowl choreographer.

Northern Ballet's noted production of Charles Dickens' famous tale has all the charm of a very traditional Christmas card.

Northern Ballet's noted production of Charles Dickens' famous tale of curmudgeonly greed, grim reflection and a joyous redemption in Act III has all the charm of a very traditional Christmas card.

Rushes from the multi-million-dollar Kiwi feelgood flick Born to Dance have been sent to the American film market this week to whet the appetite of would-be-buyers.