Returning festival gives all a chance to dance
Dunedin dancers are ready to get down and funky with a series of workshops and performances taking place today and tomorrow.
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Dancers come from all over for competition
Dancers come from all over for competition
Young dancers from Wānaka and beyond came together for a four-day dance competition at the Lake Wānaka Centre this month.
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Exploring limits of physicality
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Exploring limits of physicality
Contemporary dance company Footnote New Zealand is bringing its latest double bill dance show IYKYK to Queenstown.
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Resilience leads to career in choreography
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Resilience leads to career in choreography
Top Australian choreographer and former Royal New Zealand Ballet dancer Alice Topp is creating her first work for the company this year as well as having her duet Clay featured in its...
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Tour show explores spatial limitation
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Tour show explores spatial limitation
Two young Auckland dancers are bringing their first full-length show to Dunedin’s Fringe Festival next month.
Line dancer traded auto job for ‘passion’
Line dancer traded auto job for ‘passion’
Stephen Paterson went from carburettor to cowboy boots, and he has not looked back.
Perfect replication of show lacking in spontaneity
Perfect replication of show lacking in spontaneity
Michael Jackson — HIStory, Regent Theatre, February 16.
Regional ballet fans in for a treat
Regional ballet fans in for a treat
Dance fans are in for a treat when the Royal New Zealand Ballet visits the Upper Clutha next month.
School head danced her way to fulltime job
Dance school putting on show to mark 20th
A Dunedin dance school that began as a placeholder for a real job is turning 20 on Sunday.
Restaging of fairy tale still delights
Restaging of fairy tale still delights
Hansel and Gretel, Royal New Zealand Ballet, Regent Theatre, Saturday, November 18.
Tapping tyros’ talents tapped
Tapping tyros’ talents tapped
The tipping and tapping of feet can take you around the world, the Dunedin Tap Dancing Society president says.
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Taking centre stage
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Taking centre stage
Hansel & Gretel is being brought to life again by the Royal New Zealand Ballet, in choreographer Loughlan Prior and composer Claire Cowan’s interpretation of the classic fairy tale.
Here to party
Here to party
Belly dancer Samantha Murphy, of Christchurch, and various characters gather at the Halloween Bellydance Festival in Dunedin’s Kazbah Studio at the weekend.
NZ ballet great Sir John Trimmer dies
NZ ballet great Sir John Trimmer dies
Sir Jon Trimmer, a key member of NZ ballet for more than 40 years, and who danced overseas with greats Dame Margot Fonteyn and Rudolph Nureyev had died. He was 84.
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One last dance before departing
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One last dance before departing
Dunedin’s Indian dance community is in mourning after dancer Swaroopa Prameela Unni announced she is moving to Australia — but not before performing one last time in Dunedin.
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‘Great talent’ at schools hip-hop champs
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‘Great talent’ at schools hip-hop champs
They stretched, they slammed and they jumped as hours of practice were put to the test.
Dancers move as one in exhilarating display
Dancers move as one in exhilarating display
Celtica, Regent Theatre, Saturday, September 2.
Feeling the beat
Feeling the beat
Trinity Catholic College Hip Hop Syndicate team members (from left) Isobelle Mahoney, 15, Jemma Mortimer, 17, Evie De Graaf, 15, Maverick Gayoma, 17, and April Edrolin, 17, perform at the 2023 Hip...
Spirit of dance
Spirit of dance
Sol Why (top), Indie Hodgson (left) and Audrey Jade Cretney (right) compete in Section 5 Classical not en pointe 8 and 9 years event at a competition held by the Taieri Competitions Society yesterday.
Wuthering flash mob dancing for good cause
Wuthering flash mob dancing for good cause
About 100 people donned red dresses to take part in a community flash mob recreating the Kate Bush classic Wuthering Heights in the Octagon today.