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So You Think You Can Dance (New Zealand TV Series)
''So You Think You Can Dance'' is a New Zealand televised dance competition based on the format of the American show by the same name and other series in the international ''So You Think You Can Dance'' television franchise. Aired by New Zealand television network TV3 and hosted by New Zealand television personality Shane Cortese, the show broadcast a single season in 2006. References {{So You Think You Can Dance New Zealand New Zealand ( mi, Aotearoa ) is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It consists of two main landmasses—the North Island () and the South Island ()—and over 700 smaller islands. It is the sixth-largest island count ... New Zealand reality television series 2006 New Zealand television series debuts 2006 New Zealand television series endings New Zealand television series based on American television series Three (TV channel) original programming Dance competition television shows ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shane Cortese
Shane Cortese (born 13 August 1968) is a New Zealand actor and singer. He is perhaps best known for his role of Mac on Nothing Trivial, Loki on the Almighty Johnsons and Hayden Peters on hit show '' Outrageous Fortune''. He was also a runner-up on Season 1 of NZ ''Dancing with the Stars'' in 2005. Career Cortese started his professional career as a travel agent in Palmerston North. He got involved in the amateur drama society and soon found a passion in acting. He participated in numerous plays before moving to London in 1993 to further his newfound career. Cortese trained at London's Central School of Speech and Drama. After graduating from the Musical Theatre Course in 1993, he spent 10 years touring the UK in musicals, performing several times on London's prestigious West End. His performances won critical acclaim from UK reviewers. Whilst visiting New Zealand in 2000, Cortese auditioned for the popular soap opera ''Shortland Street'' for the role of Geoff Greenlaw. He did n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Parmenter
Michael Earl Parmenter (born 1954) is a New Zealand choreographer, teacher and dancer of contemporary dance. Career Parmenter studied dance in the 1980s in New York and was influenced by both New York-based choreographer Erick Hawkins and Japanese Butoh master Min Tanaka. He has a master's degree in creative and performance dance from the University of Auckland. He formed the dance company ''Commotion'' in 1990 with notable works including the dance opera ''Jerusalem''. Recent work includes dance opera ''OrphEus'' which premiered at the 2018 Auckland Arts Festival. Parmenter openly talks about his homosexuality and living with HIV including in autobiographic show ''The Long Undressing''. He has taught at the New Zealand School of Dance and UNITEC. He has choreographed for Footnote Dance Company, the Royal New Zealand Ballet and the New Zealand Dance Company amongst others. Reporter Simon Wilson recounting a significant moment in the arts for him about a Parmenter perfor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bettina Hollings
Bettina Hollings is a New Zealand television producer and media executive. Biography Hollings was born and raised in Wellington and moved to Auckland to study advertising and communications at the Auckland Institute of Technology (now AUT). After graduating, she worked as a media planner at the advertising agency Colenso for three years. In 1987, she moved to TV2 as a programmer. She was one of the creators of the long-running and highly successful soap opera ''Shortland Street'' - in 1991 she advocated for a five-day-a-week local soap opera and convinced Ruth Harley at New Zealand on Air to fund it. South Pacific Pictures (owned by TVNZ) won the tender to deliver the show and Hollings suggested it be set in a hospital. Together with producer Caterina De Nave and writer Jason Daniel she created the key characters. In 1995, Hollings moved to TV3 and developed factual reality shows such as ''Police Stop'' and ''Fresh-up in the Deep End.'' In March 1997, Hollings became the fir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Three (TV Channel)
Three ( mi, Toru), stylized as +HR=E, is a New Zealand nationwide television channel. Launched on 26 November 1989 as TV3, it was New Zealand's first private broadcasting, privately owned television channel. The channel currently broadcasts nationally (with regional advertising targeting four markets) in digital free-to-air form via the state-owned Kordia on terrestrial and satellite. Vodafone also carries the channel for their cable subscribers in Wellington and Christchurch. It previously broadcast nationally on analogue television until that was switched off on 1 December 2013. Three is a general entertainment channel owned by Warner Bros. Discovery New Zealand, Warner Bros. Discovery, with a significant news and current affairs element under the banner of Newshub. Three carries a significant amount of local content, most of which airs at prime-time. History Establishment Applications to apply for a warrant to operate New Zealand's third national television network opened ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |