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Review: Cast make light of a dickens of a job
Northern Ballet's noted production of Charles Dickens' famous tale has all the charm of a very traditional Christmas card.
Dance review: A Christmas Carol, Royal NZ Ballet
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.
Stan Walker details new dance movie
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.
Dance review: 2 One Another, Aotea Centre
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.
A rich and memorable weekend
Two richly developed productions from the closing weekend of Tempo 2014 leave memorable images behind them.
Dance review: The Status of Being
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.
Dance review: Tempo Dance Festival 2014 presents FRESH
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.
Hip Op-eration Crew
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.
Dancers vie for places at world event
More than 500 dancers descended on Auckland's North Shore for the inaugural DanceBrandz Nationals competition yesterday.
Spectacular tour de force
Thousands of Kiwis will witness the dazzling performers in Cirque du Soleil's Totem in its five-week Auckland season.
Dance review: Hypnotic work is one out of the box
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.
Ballet review: High five to fantastic flights of fancy
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.
Flirtatious, modern ballet a whirlwind show
The Royal New Zealand Ballet’s Allegro line-up features a love story with a twist.
Theatre review: Mana Wahine, Q Theatre
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.
Colin Hogg: Jabbering spoils a thing of beauty
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.
Theatre review: Shadowland, The Civic
There is absolutely no doubt that the artists of American dance theatre company Pilobulus are supreme masters of the ancient art of shadow play.
New dance craze hits Aklnd
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.