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.

Ballet classes are popping up all over the country, and not just for children. Danielle Wright finds out what the fuss is about at dance class with Company Z founder Timothy Gordon.

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.

The stage is dark with just the faint gleam of drum kit, sita, cello, violin and four seated musicians.

Think Fame plus Benny Hill and you get the gist of hit reality show Pineapple Dance Studios, writes Deborah Hill Cone.

Bernadette Rae talks to the man many consider the guru of New Zealand dance, master choreographer Douglas Wright.

When is a dance work not a dance work? asks Bernadette Rae about an Arts Festival piece which mixes French intellectualism, untrained performers and Lionel Richie.

The avant-garde end of Fringe Fest spectrum finds an appropriate niche with a free event held at the base of the stairs that link Saint Kevin's Arcade with Myers Park.

Jacqueline Smith's week of television, movies and music.

On the eve of his Auckland performance, dance experimentalist Dan Snaith, aka Caribou, talks about his unique brand of music.

Scott Kara talks to Kelis, one of the biggest Splore-City stars heading to NZ for this weekend's music festival.