Choreography
Jack Gray: 'Mitimiti' too 1445
Atamira Dance Company's latest offering is 'Mitimiti', developed over five years of extensive research and workshops. Eva asks choreographer Jack Gray what it's all about. Audio
Carrie Rae Cunningham: Tempo Festival
Carrie Rae Cunningham has been involved with Auckland's Tempo Festival of Dance since 2008, in a number of capacities. This year, she takes the reins as Artistic Director. She tells Eva what they have… Audio
Dance
Body movements, usually to music, with Chris Jannides, Toi Whakaari movement tutor and founding dancer, choreographer and artistic director of Limbs Dance Company. Lloyd Newson and his UK physical… Audio
You Call This Art 2014 Part 3
Join the audience gathered in Christchurch to hear choreographer Louise Potiki Bryant, landscape designer Megan Wraight and singer-songwriter Dudley Benson discuss differences and similarities in… Video, Audio
In Transit
To be a married couple who are also both artists is to constantly skip between the everyday and the ephemeral. Choreographer Louise Potiki Bryant and musician Paddy Free know that better than most and… Audio
The Best of Upbeat for 29 May 2015
In this week's episode: Eva speaks to Australian conductor Richard Gill, before talking to Balanchine expert Diana White, and meeting Scotty Barnhart and Carmen Bradford of the Count Basie Orchestra.
…Douglas Wright: Choreographer
The Kiss Inside is the latest work by New Zealand choreographer Douglas Wright, exploring the human need for ecstasy. He tells Eva about his creative process. Audio
Sarah-Jayne Howard
When Douglas Wright's new dance show The Kiss Inside opens in Auckland later this month, one very special dancer will be in the company. Arts Laureate Sarah-Jayne Howard has been dancing for Douglas… Audio
Eric Languet: Choreographer
Eric Languet is back in New Zealand from his home in the Reunion Islands, working with Footnote Dance on 'Bbeals'. He tells Eva about the work and its 1980s inspiration. Audio
Australian choreographer John "Cha Cha" O'Connell
Australian choreographer John "Cha Cha" O'Connell has a huge body of work in film and theatre, including the 1992 break-through hit Strictly Ballroom; Moulin Rouge, Shall We Dance? and The Great… Audio
Malia Johnson: Choreographer
The New Zealand School of Dance 2014 Graduation Season opens at Te Whaea in Wellington on Wednesday. Included in this year's lineup of works is local choreographer Malia Johnson's 'Trigger'. Audio
Choreographer, dancer, performance and video artist Alexa Wilson
The Tempo Dance Festival in Auckland sees the return of one of our more interesting artists. Expat Alexa Wilson is a dancer and choreographer, a performance artist and a theorist who, in her own… Audio