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Superstar Ethan Stiefel talks Royal New Zealand Ballet
The new artistic director of New Zealand’s premier ballet company, Ethan Stiefel, tells Rebecca Barry Hill what brought him from New York to guide our stagecraft.

A deliciously disgusting day out
They're shocking. They're smelly. They're stupefyingly stupid. Danielle Wright meets the stars of Roald Dahl's The Twits theatrical adaptation.

Birth as an art form: Woman delivers in New York gallery
Marni Kotak gave the performance of her life when she gave birth to baby Ajax in a New York City art gallery recently.

Saving the last dance for Pina Bausch
Director Wim Wenders captures a celebrated avant garde dance company in the 3D doco Pina. He talks to Helen Barlow.

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.

Te Urewera - from the beginning
Rebecca Kamm looks at a dramatic work paying homage to the eviction of the Tuhoe people.