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DANZ is super excited to be supporting the launch and presentation of this experimental project from Java Dance Theatre, which highlights the connection/process between dancers and musicians in creating new works under difficult times. As we navigate a world of fluctuating COVID-19 restrictions, artists are continuing to find innovative... Keep Reading
Free online arts, health and wellbeing training course A free 9-hour online training course created by the UK Culture, Health and Wellbeing Alliance is now available. The course is designed to support arts, museum and heritage organisations to develop, deliver and evaluate health and wellbeing initiatives. The course modules include an... Keep Reading
Whakatau Mai: The Wellbeing Sessions Italian sisters, Giulia and Dinny, facilitate the popular Art Yoga sessions for Whakatau Mai, an ongoing series of online wellbeing sessions delivered by Changing Minds as part of the government’s COVID-19 Response Package. Understanding the need for an artistic offering as part of their... Keep Reading
Sheather a finalist in art award. WHAKATANE artist Lea-Anne Sheather has been selected as a finalist in the 2020 Parkin Drawing Prize, which attracts a major prize of $25,000. Sheather, a teacher at St Joseph’s Catholic School in Whakatane, said she was pleased to be a finalist in the art award. Read more Keep Reading
Experimental Dance Week Aotearoa (NZ) is very excited to announce that it will be going ahead with its live festival this year 30th November - 5th December 2020 at Herald Theatre thanks to Auckland Live. Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the festival was postponed from June 2020, and given that it was previously half-international the new... Keep Reading
During Lockdown Java Dance Theatre matched up more than 50 musicians and dancers from around the world for 101 improvised duets over Zoom. Now Java will bring 24 of the musicians and dancers together in Wellington to improvise together and create duets. Follow their process online and dip your toe into a world of creative collisions, new... Keep Reading
Skills Active Aotearoa is the industry training organisation for performing arts. They work with industry to create work-based qualifications and help organisations to get their people trained up. They are currently developing the unit standards for New Zealand Certificates in Performing Arts Instruction, Level 5... Keep Reading
Finalists announced for 2020 Parkin Drawing Prize Recycled pantyhose, korari sticks and bed sheets are just some of the interesting materials used to create works shortlisted in the 2020 Parkin Drawing Prize. The competition attracted an impressive 482 entries, of which 76 have been selected for the short-list. The national drawing... Keep Reading
A few minutes in the company of Whanganui volunteer Juanita Davis with some of the men she has been teaching to weave, and the value of her work shines through. Keep Reading
Iosefa Enari (Sefa) - Founder of Pacific Dance NZ - has been awarded a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to Pacific Dance. Sefa was a founding member of Pacific Theatre in 1987. He trained as a professional dancer at LIMBS Dance Programme, UNITEC School of Performing Arts and holds a masters degree in Dance Studies from... Keep Reading
Christchurch Art Seen No city in Aotearoa New Zealand knows better than Christchurch that at times of crisis people reach-out to the arts. This has happened once more in the Covid-19 lockdown period. What we also see is that the arts reach back into the community. For Christchurch Art Seen this has occurred through continuing weekly... Keep Reading
The title of Kim Lowe’s exhibition at Chambers Gallery is a variation on a quote by contemporary Asian American Taoist, Deng Ming Dao: ‘If Tao is a River... it's good to know where the rocks are.’ The recipient of the Oliver Spencer Bower Foundation Award in 2019, Lowe comments that her new works relate.. Keep Reading
OneMusic licenses the dance community for the public performance of music within APRA and Recorded Music NZ’s (RMNZ) repertoire. Many of you will hold this license which enables you to use the repertoire that APRA and RMNZ represent in your teaching. The OneMusic Dance Instruction licence would not normally cover the use of music in... Keep Reading
Although many of the wonderful festival season shows were cut short or cancelled recently due to the Covid-19 crisis, we want to acknowledge and appreciate the amazing work that was put into each and every one of them - our hearts go out to all of the artists/technicians/organisers affected. Here is a collection of reviews of a number of the... Keep Reading
Van Hasselt’s colourful and seemingly mutating brightly coloured Totter, was selected by a judging panel made up of curator and collections manager at The Suter Art Gallery Te Aratoi o Whakatū , Sarah McClintock, international ceramic artist Cheryl Lucas and arts collections curator at the University of Canterbury, Lydia... Keep Reading
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