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Dance Review: Te Houhi - The People and the Land are One
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.
Italian tarantula's bite gives birth to a summer beat
A forgotten brand of homegrown folk music has turned Puglia into one of the most fashionable summer festival destinations in Europe.
Dance fitness: Shaking it up
Strap on your dancing shoes to get fit and have fun at the same time.
NZ crews dominate World Hip-Hop dance champs
New Zealand has won two silver and three gold medals at the World Hip Hop Dance Championship in Las Vegas.
<i>Gill South</i>: Unleash your inner tiger with burlesque classes
Burlesque won't make you fit but it's a good way to escape your comfort zone, discovers Gill South.
<i>Gill South</i>: Shaking things up a bit
As a form of cardio exercise it doesn't get much more fun than Zumba, writes Gill South.
Weekend leisure: Tango dreams
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.
Paris: A visit to the Moulin Rouge
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.
Weekend leisure: On pointe for fitness
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.
Another meaningless celebration? Give me a break
Americans love their 'special days', each dedicated to some section of society.
Dancer seizes glory with grace
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.
Zumba originator entranced by haka
The haka might soon be incorporated in one of the world's most well-known fitness programmes - Zumba.
Arts Festival Review: The Show Must Go On
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.
Top NZ dance crew make American prime time
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.
Arts Festival Review: Rapt
When Douglas Wright sets his stage with a big grey wall, it's a wall with an enigmatic, palpable life of its own.
Don't miss: Noumea Carnival
Carnaval de Noumea - the Noumea Carnival - is a major festival held in the New Caledonian capital every April.
Arts Festival Review: May B
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.
Arts Festival Review: Beautiful Me
The stage is dark with just the faint gleam of drum kit, sita, cello, violin and four seated musicians.
<i>Deborah Hill Cone:</i> Bitching as an olympic sport
Think Fame plus Benny Hill and you get the gist of hit reality show Pineapple Dance Studios, writes Deborah Hill Cone.
Arts Festival Review: Loin... (Far...)
French dancer-choreographer Rachid Ouramdane's multimedia performance reviewed by Raewyn White
Auckland Arts Festival: Moving Wright along
Bernadette Rae talks to the man many consider the guru of New Zealand dance, master choreographer Douglas Wright.