Dance
Billy's Bootcamp
Bootcamp has begun for the six young boys cast in the lead roles of Auckland Theatre Company's production of Billy Elliot the Musical. Aged 10-14, they've come together for an intensive, two-week… Audio
Oh the Absurdity!
The Absurdity of Humanity is the latest work from The New Zealand Dance Company. The double bill show brings together works from Ross McCormack and Lina Limosani, both with an absurdist view on the… Audio
The Most Wuthering Heights Day Ever
Ready to let your inner Cathy free? On Saturday 16th July, large groups of red-clad men, women and children will gather at events around the world to dance to Kate Bush's 1978 hit song, Wuthering… Audio
Nights' Culture - Hip Hop
Can you spot a whip from a nae-nae? University of Auckland ethnomusicologist Dr Kirsten Zemke looks at recent dance crazes. Audio
A step in a new direction
The New Zealand School of Dance is offering a free dance course for young Maori and Pacific Island teenaged boys. It draws on combining, contemporary dance, street dance and Kapa Haka and gives the… Audio
Artistic creation in troubled times
What value does contemporary dance have in the increasingly troubled modern world and why do audiences actively seek out Art when life gets tough? Swedish dance educator Efva Lilja joins Carol Brown… Audio
Light under foot
Nederlands Dans Theater is performing in New Zealand for the first time this week in Auckland. Artistic Director Paul Lightfoot talks about spending over thirty years working with the company he… Audio
A man full of grace
Neil Ieremia ONZM, reflects on 21 years of maintaining his company Black Grace. There were many sceptics when as a 24 year old Ieremia began a male only dance company to reflect his own culture on… Audio
Dancing Millenials
What does it mean to be a millennial? A new dance work on show in Auckland aims to explore the world through the often restless and overwhelmed millennial perspective. Everything Anyone Ever Wanted is… Audio
Bouncing off the walls: vertical dance company Bandaloop
California vertical dance company Bandaloop whose performances take place on the sides of tall buildings. Founded by dancer Amelia Rudolph in 1991, they've been performing amazing vertical routines… Audio, Gallery
Everything Anyone Ever Wanted
Choreographer Natalie Maria Clark unwraps the pitfalls of growing up in the digital age in a new dance theatre show at Q Theatre. Sonia Sly has more... Audio
Jahra Wasasala - Wahinetoa Nights
One of the events on at the inaugural Pacific Dance Festival is Wahinetoa Nights featuring choreographer/dancer Jahra Wasasala, whose Auckland Fringe Festival show Mother/Jaw won five awards… Video, Audio
Theatre Critic: Dione Joseph
Our critic today is Dione Joseph, who's reviewing the dance production, Mana Wahine. Audio
The globe trotter
Choreographer Jeremy Nelson has always taken steps in different directions. Unlike some dancers, he headed abroad to learn his art in London. He's is the Associate Arts Professor in the Dance… Audio
Nights' Culture - Dance
Body movements, usually to music - with Chris Jannides, Toi Whakaari movement tutor and founding dancer, choreographer and artistic director of Limbs Dance Company... Audio
Shining light on dance
Jennifer Shennan reviews The New Zealand Dance Company's three piece work Lumina, which all focus on light. It's currently touring the country, following on from a successful international season in… Audio
Francesco Ventriglia: on a ballet high
Kim Hill talks to the artistic director of the Royal New Zealand Ballet who came here after a career as a dancer, choreographer, and artistic director in Italy. The RNZB's latest production, The… Audio
Communicating through dance
Dancing is an art form that can allow someone to express how they truly feel. Either alone, or in the case of documentary How to Dance in Ohio, in a social context. Documentary maker Alexandra Shiva… Audio
Backstage at the Bolshoi
Bolshoi Babylon examines the turbulent world of Moscow's famed ballet company following the 2013 acid attack that blinded the company's artistic director. We talk to the documentary's co-director Nick… Audio