The New Zealand Dance Company

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The New Zealand Dance Company (incorporated as The New Zealand Dance Advancement Trust) is an Auckland based, nationally focused contemporary dance company.

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The company sought to break the paradigm of dance companies operating on a project by project basis, presenting work by one choreographer, and moved instead to a sustainable model of presenting a variety of choreographic works.

About

The New Zealand Dance Company (NZDC) was founded in 2012 by former Limbs Dance Company member Shona McCullagh and the founding General Manager Frances Turner. Like Limbs, the NZDC company commissions work from New Zealand and international choreographers. [1] Part of the mission was to support new talent and utilise dancers and choreographers who had left New Zealand. [2] The founding production was the Language of Living, featuring choreographers Michael Parmenter, Justin Haiu, Sarah Foster-Sproull and Shona McCullagh. [3]

NZDC has developed more than 27 new works by choreographers from New Zealand, Australia, Holland and South Korea and has toured internationally including to the Holland Dance Festival, Australia, Germany, Liverpool, France, Belgium, Luxembourg and Canada. [2]

In addition to a professional Company, NZDC has a Youth and Community Engagement Programme of weekly classes, masterclasses and workshops for all ages and levels – including an over 60s Feisty Feet class. [4]

In 2011 Creative New Zealand funded the new venture of The New Zealand Dance Company and Westpac bank sponsored. [3]

Dancers

Management

Works

ProductionDateLocationChoreographersNotes
Stage of Being2023Auckland: ASB Waterfront Theatre, [5] Tupua Tigifua (LittleBits and AddOns), Xin Ji & Xiao Chao Wen (Made in Them)
What They Said2022Auckland Q TheatreJo Lloyd
ArteFact [6] 2022, 2023New Zealand TourRoss McCormack
Night Light [7] 2022, 2023Auckland: ASB Waterfront Theatre Tor Colombus and Eddie Elliott
This Fragile Planet2020
 Nina Nawalowalo and Tom McCrory (The Conch), Ross McCormack
International Tours2014–2024
  • Canada
  • Belgium
  • Luxemburg
  • Paris
  • Liverpool
  • Germany
  • Australia
  • Netherlands
Matariki for Tamariki2019–2023
  • Auckland
  • Northland
Sean McDonald
Kiss the Sky2017, 2019
  • Bay of Islands
  • Wanaka
  • Invercargill
  • Wellington
  • New Plymouth
  • Nelson
  • Hamilton
  • Auckland
KIM Jae Duk, Victoria Columbus, Stephanie Lake, Sue Healey
Tamaki Tour2016–2025AucklandSean McDonald, Mia Mason, Lucy Marinkovich, Chrissy Kokiri, Taniora Motutere, Ashleigh Perriot, Tupua Tigafua, Bianca Hyslop, Scott Ewen, Omea Geary, Malia Johnston, Joshua Cesan
Lumina2015, 2016 ,2018
  • Germany
  • Netherlands
  • Paris
  • Liverpool
  • Hamilton
  • Christchurch
  • Nelson
  • Auckland
  • Whangarei
  • Napier
  • Wellington
  • New Plymouth
Stephen Shropshire, Louise Potiki Bryant, Malia Johnston
OrphEus – A Dance Opera2018
 Michael Parmenter
The Absurdity of Humanity2016, 2017
  • New Plymouth
  • Marlborough
  • Christchurch
  • Wellington
  • Auckland
Rotunda2013, 2014, 2015
  • Tauranga
  • Wellington
  • Christchurch
  • Dunedin
  • Auckland
  • Adelaide
  • Melbourne
  • Parramatta
  • Geelong
  • Den Haag
  • Amsterdam
Shona McCullagh in collaboration with dancers
Language of Living2012, 2013, 2014
  • Invercargill
  • Christchurch
  • Nelson
  • New Plymouth
  • Tauranga
  • Auckland
  • Whangarei
  • Hawke's Bay
  • Wellington
Shona McCullagh, Michael Parmenter, Sarah Foster-Sproull, Justin Haiu, Tupua Tigafua, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker
Shaun Parker's Trolleys
  • UK
  • Spain
  • Belgium
  • France
  • Malaysia
  • Netherlands
  • Australia
  • Auckland
Shaun ParkerArgus Angel Award Winner (Brighton Festival, UK)

References

  1. ↑ Schultz, Marianne (2017). Limbs Dance Company. OCLC   1030942994.
  2. 1 2 "About". New Zealand Dance Company. Retrieved 14 August 2021.
  3. 1 2 Francis, Rain (1 July 2012). "The New New Zealand Dance Company". Dance Informa Magazine. Retrieved 13 August 2021.
  4. ↑ Engagement Programme, Youth and Community. "MĀTAURANGA/ EDUCATION". The New Zealand Dance Company. Retrieved 4 June 2020.
  5. ↑ Zealand (www.bka.co.nz), Site designed and developed by bka interactive ltd, Auckland, New. "ASB Waterfront Theatre | ASB Waterfront Theatre". www.asbwaterfronttheatre.co.nz. Retrieved 24 October 2023.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  6. ↑ "Artefact – How to Behave in a Museum". Theatreview. Retrieved 24 October 2023.
  7. ↑ "Night Light". Theatreview. Retrieved 24 October 2023.
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