New Zealand has won two silver and three gold medals at the World Hip Hop Dance Championship in Las Vegas.

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.

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.

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.

French dancer-choreographer Rachid Ouramdane's multimedia performance reviewed by Raewyn White

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.