Sydney Dance Company's seminal and celebrated work begins with a simple representation of its title. A couple sit to one side (2), a solitary figure stands to the other (One) and the rest of the company (the Others) take centre stage.
Two richly developed productions from the closing weekend of Tempo 2014 leave memorable images behind them.
There is no complacent sitting back comfortably to watch Alexa Wilson's explosive and challenging choreography The Status of Being, made on the company's very new quintet of five impressive young dancers.
In the FRESH showcase at Tempo Dance Festival 2014, the communication of ideas through the dancing body is still the primary focus of this new generation of dance artists, but the ways in which that body dances are divergent.
Theirs is an unlikely story: a bunch of senior citizens from Waiheke — ranging in age from 65 to 95 — who formed a hip-hop dance crew then went to the world champs in Vegas. They talk to Alan Perrott about moonwalking, twerking and feeling alive again.
More than 500 dancers descended on Auckland's North Shore for the inaugural DanceBrandz Nationals competition yesterday.
Thousands of Kiwis will witness the dazzling performers in Cirque du Soleil's Totem in its five-week Auckland season.
The opening work in this most mesmerising of programmes begins with a filmed section projected on to a large wooden cube which contains and catapults the dancers into action.
Johan Kobborg's Les Lutins, still in classical mode, cavorts and struts its sweetly saucy stuff to the live virtuoso violin of Benjamin Baker and Michael Pansters on piano.
The Royal New Zealand Ballet’s Allegro line-up features a love story with a twist.
Okareka Dance Company has hit the jackpot with this exploration of the strength, the spirit, the wiles and the primal beauty of women, specifically Maori women.
Some television shows spoil their chances for love by talking too much, filling every possible space with words, pre-empting everything anyone says, writes Colin Hogg.
There is absolutely no doubt that the artists of American dance theatre company Pilobulus are supreme masters of the ancient art of shadow play.
As a professional bedroom dancer, Sophie Barclay decided to head to the hall and road test a few moves that weren't quite club-ready.
Dozens of dancers, music and a couple of young lovers - the ballet's come to town.
Anyone who thinks show business is glamorous should have been in the cavernous main auditorium of the Westpoint Performing Arts Centre on Monday morning.