Labour Weekend: What's on around the country?
We've rounded up some of the best events happening all over the country this long weekend.
We've rounded up some of the best events happening all over the country this long weekend.
A week in the life of actor, dancer and musician - Yaw Boateng.
Director Wim Wenders captures a celebrated avant garde dance company in the 3D doco Pina. He talks to Helen Barlow.
Atamira Dance Company's's beautifully crafted new Te Houhi - The People and the Land are One draws on intricately connected layers of dance, video imagery and narrated text to share poignant ancestral stories from the Ngai Tuhoe lineage.
A forgotten brand of homegrown folk music has turned Puglia into one of the most fashionable summer festival destinations in Europe.
Burlesque won't make you fit but it's a good way to escape your comfort zone, discovers Gill South.
As a form of cardio exercise it doesn't get much more fun than Zumba, writes Gill South.
A passionate dance brings out a great passion in its participants. Cate Foster puts aside her fears, feels the rhythm and signs up for tango lessons.
ReQuest, the New Zealand hip hop dance crew who took on the world and won, are struggling to find the funds to defend their title.
A Tauranga granny caught on film dancing with youthful vigour has become a YouTube sensation.
It's still the most famous cabaret show in the world, and has been since the 1890s, but is it any good? P.K. Stowers spends a night at the Moulin Rouge.
Americans love their 'special days', each dedicated to some section of society.
After winning one of international ballet's biggest awards, Pieter Symonds is being billed as New Zealand's answer to Margot Fonteyn. Bess Manson joins her for tea and biscuits in London.
The haka might soon be incorporated in one of the world's most well-known fitness programmes - Zumba.
Jerome Bel's The Show Must Go On is not so much a dance show as a show about dance. Its conventions, constructions, its expected forms, are mostly stripped away.
Auckland's ReQuest Dance Crew, the current Hip Hop dance world champions, have made the finals of America's Best Dance Crew - the dancing equivalent of American Idol.
When Douglas Wright sets his stage with a big grey wall, it's a wall with an enigmatic, palpable life of its own.
Carnaval de Noumea - the Noumea Carnival - is a major festival held in the New Caledonian capital every April.
Maguy Marin's landmark work, celebrating 30 feted years of continuous performance, begins with the sculptured forms of its ten dancers, posed in dusty alabaster-like desertion.