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.

The three choreographers contributing state of the art pieces for this ground-breaking season with the New Zealand Dance Company were given the brief of "light, illumination, space, image and movement" by the company's artistic director Shona McCullagh.

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.

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 opening stage is set with a tall scarlet banner which flows, bloodlike, from the rafters and bears the names, of relatives of the company one suspects, lost to the savageries of war.