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12 years old and famous

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.

Lemi Ponifasio: How the world moves

Dance Review: Rotunda

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.

NZ Dance's stirring tribute to the Anzacs

Dance review: 'The Kiss Inside'

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.

The agony and the ecstasy of Douglas Wright

Don Quixote: The reign in Spain

Troupe finds strength in diversity

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.

China's Little Apple storms NZ

NZ Arts Award gives Cliff Curtis a shot of 'creative energy'

A rich and memorable weekend

Two richly developed productions from the closing weekend of Tempo 2014 leave memorable images behind them.

Hip Op-eration short of funds

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: Prime and Q&Q with A&A

Prime programme of 2014 with a distinct flavour.

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.

Dance review: Kiri and Mataqali Drift, Tempo Dance Festival