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Tempo Dance Festival
Tempo Dance Festival is an annual pan-genre professional dance festival held in Auckland, New Zealand and is the 'longest standing annual dance event' of New Zealand, founded in 2003. History Tempo Dance Festival started in 2003 from an initiative from the Northern Dance Network, originally named the Auckland Dance Festival (2000-2002). New Zealand Dance Festival Trust is a registered charitable trust that operates under the trading name of Tempo Dance Festival. Part of the mission of Tempo Dance Festival is to, "champion diversity and inclusion and enrich and connect diverse communities through the language of dance". People Past directors have included Sonja Bright (2000-2004), Mary Jane O'Reilly (2006-2011),Celia Walmsley, 2012-2014 , Carrie Rae Cunningham 2015-2018. Cat Ruka was appointed in February 2019 and left at the end of 2020. In March 2021 there were seven new trustee's appointed. As at September 2021 the trustees were Aaron Huata, Cathy Livermore, Jeremy Po ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Auckland
Auckland (pronounced ) ( mi, Tāmaki Makaurau) is a large metropolitan city in the North Island of New Zealand. The List of New Zealand urban areas by population, most populous urban area in the country and the List of cities in Oceania by population, fifth largest city in Oceania, Auckland has an urban population of about It is located in the greater Auckland Region—the area governed by Auckland Council—which includes outlying rural areas and the islands of the Hauraki Gulf, and which has a total population of . While European New Zealanders, Europeans continue to make up the plurality of Auckland's population, the city became multicultural and Cosmopolitanism, cosmopolitan in the late-20th century, with Asian New Zealanders, Asians accounting for 31% of the city's population in 2018. Auckland has the fourth largest Foreign born, foreign-born population in the world, with 39% of its residents born overseas. With its large population of Pasifika New Zealanders, the city is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sarah Foster-Sproull
Sarah Foster-Sproull is a New Zealand choreographer, dancer and senior lecturer in dance studies at the University of Auckland. Early life and education Foster-Sproull was born in Dunedin and attended Otago Girl's High School. She began dancing at age 6 being taught by Robyn Sinclair at the Dunedin School of Ballet. She went on to attend the New Zealand School of Dance and in 2017 gained a Masters in Dance Studies from the University of Auckland. Her masters thesis was entitled ''Embodied economies: Locating the ‘prosumer-dancer’ within dancers’ experiences of choreographic practice''. As at 2021 Foster-Sproull is undertaking a doctorate in the dance studies programme at the University of Auckland. Performance and choreography During her dancing career Foster-Sproull has performed with Soapbox Productions, the Douglas Wright Dance Company, and the Commotion Company amongst others. Foster-Sproull went on to become a founding member of The New Zealand Dance Company, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Russell Kerr (choreographer)
Russell Ian Kerr (10 February 1930 – 23 March 2022) was a New Zealand ballet dancer, choreographer, and producer. After spending the 1950s dancing in Europe, he returned to New Zealand where he was instrumental in the development of the New Zealand Ballet Company (now the Royal New Zealand Ballet) and ballet as an art form in New Zealand. He was recognised as one of New Zealand's most significant living artists in 2005 with an Icon Award from the Arts Foundation of New Zealand. Biography Kerr was born on 10 February 1930 in Auckland. He attended Ellerslie Primary School and Otahuhu College. As a boy he suffered from muscular rheumatism and received medical advice that taking up dancing would help. He began his career as a ballet student of Kathleen Whitford. In 1950, he received a government bursary for travel to Europe. He spent the 1950s dancing with well-known dance companies such as the José Greco Spanish Company, Sadlers Wells Ballet (now the Royal Ballet), Ballet ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deirdre Tarrant
Deirdre Elizabeth Anne Tarrant (born 1946) is a New Zealand dancer, dance teacher and choreographer. She was the founding director of Footnote Dance and is principal of the Tarrant Dance Studios. Tarrant was born in 1946, the daughter of Alfred Edward Tarrant, a Wellington manufacturer. She danced with the New Zealand Ballet Company while studying for a Bachelor of Arts degree at Victoria University of Wellington in 1967. Tarrant founded Footnote Dance in 1985. She led that company until 2012, when she handed over to Malia Johnston. She has been a vocational examiner for the Royal Academy of Dance. She is principal of the Tarrant Dance Studios. Awards and honours Tarrant was made a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit in the 2000 New Year Honours for "services to dance and the community". She was promoted to Companion in the 2013 Queen's Birthday Honours The 2013 Birthday Honours were appointments by some of the 16 Commonwealth realms of Queen Elizabeth II to va ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dorothea Ashbridge
Dorothea Ashbridge (née Zaymes; 4 March 1928 – 30 December 2021) was a South African-born New Zealand ballet dancer, choreographer, teacher and international ballet judge. Early life Ashbridge was born in Cape Town, South Africa, in 1928, one of eight children. She studied ballet from an early age. At age 17 she left South Africa for London after an invitation from the Sadler's Wells Ballet School. Career Ashbridge joined the Sadler's Wells Ballet three months after arriving at the Ballet School. There she danced with famous dancers including Margot Fonteyn, Robert Helpmann and Moira Shearer and New Zealand dancer Rowena Jackson. In 1966, after emigrating to New Zealand, Ashbridge branched out from ballet to choreograph pop music television shows ''C'mon!'' and ''Happen Inn.'' Ashbridge taught a number of New Zealand dancers and choreographers including Douglas Wright, Mark Baldwin and dancers in the Limbs Dance Company where she was the resident ballet mistress f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Taiaroa Royal
Taiaroa Royal is the New Zealand dancer and choreographer. Early life and education Royal identifies with the iwi Te Arawa of the Rotorua and Bay of Plenty regions, Ngāti Raukawa, Uenukopako and Kāi Tahu of the South Island. As a teenager at age 15 he won a disco dancing competition in the Bay of Plenty. Royal is a graduate of the New Zealand School of Dance, finishing in 1984. Career Companies he has performed with as a dancer include the Royal New Zealand Ballet, Douglas Wright Dance Company, Human Garden, Commotion Dance Company, Atamiria and Black Grace, and he has toured to England, Europe, Australia and America. In 2007, he started the Okareka Dance Company with Taane Mete. Okareka's 2008 show ''Tama Ma'', premiered at the Tempo Dance Festival, Auckland, won awards and went on to tour New Zealand. It had seasons at the Strut Festival, Perth in November 2010 and The Powerhouse, Brisbane in March 2011. ''Tama Ma'' had autobiographical elements and was danced by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Douglas Wright (dancer)
Douglas James Wright (14 October 1956 – 14 November 2018) was a New Zealand dancer and choreographer in the New Zealand arts establishment from 1980 until his death in 2018. Although he announced his retirement from dance in 2008, on the occasion of the publication of his first book of poetry, ''Laughing Mirror'' he subsequently continued to make dance works, including touring ''The Kiss Inside'' during April 2015. Biography Wright was born in Tuakau, South Auckland, in 1956. From 1980 to 1983 he danced with the Limbs Dance Company and choreographed a number of works on the company before travelling to New York where he danced with the Paul Taylor Company, 1983–1987 and London with DV8 Physical Theatre, 1988. Returning to New Zealand in 1989, he formed the ''Douglas Wright Dance Company'', with which he created more than 30 major works, touring New Zealand, Australia and Europe. In the 1998 Queen's Birthday Honours, Wright was appointed a Member of the New Zealand Order ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Len Lye
Leonard Charles Huia Lye (; 5 July 1901 – 15 May 1980) was a New Zealand artist known primarily for his experimental films and kinetic sculpture. His films are held in archives including the New Zealand Film Archive, British Film Institute, Museum of Modern Art in New York City, and the Pacific Film Archive at University of California, Berkeley. Lye's sculptures are found in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Albright-Knox Art Gallery and the Berkeley Art Museum. Although he became a naturalized citizen of the United States in 1950, much of his work went to New Zealand after his death, where it is housed at the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery in New Plymouth. Career As a student, Lye became convinced that motion could be part of the language of art, leading him to early (and now lost) experiments with kinetic sculpture, as well as a desire to make film. Lye was also one of the first Pākehā artists to appreciate the art of Māo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Govett-Brewster Art Gallery
The Govett-Brewster Art Gallery is a contemporary art museum at New Plymouth, Taranaki, New Zealand. The gallery receives core funding from the New Plymouth District Council. Govett-Brewster is recognised internationally for contemporary art. History The Govett-Brewster Art Gallery had its beginnings through a gift by New Plymouth resident Monica Brewster (nee Govett 1886–1973) who transferred £50,000 in stocks, funds, shares and securities to the City of New Plymouth in 1962. The fund was to establish and develop a public art gallery (in1970, the year the gallery eventually opened, she would make a second bequest for £72,000 to start a permanent art collection). In 1967 a 24 year old Australian teacher John Maynard arrived in New Plymouth having been appointed director to develop a contemporary art gallery. Maynard had no interest in setting up a conventional local body gallery and after touring the country saw that, “artists are where the action is.’ Maynard oversaw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Zealand School Of Dance
The New Zealand School of Dance was established in 1967 and is a tertiary educational institute in New Zealand that teaches contemporary dance and ballet. It started as the National School of Ballet, and after contemporary dance was added in 1982 the name was changed to the New Zealand School of Dance. About The school has two qualifications, a two year diploma or a three diploma with a classical or contemporary dance stream, and prepares students for careers as professional dancers. The New Zealand School of Dance is housed in Te Whaea: The National Centre for Dance and Drama in Wellington, New Zealand. History The director of the school when it was first set up was Sarah Neil with nine full-time and four part-time students in 1967. The school was funded by the Queen Elizabeth II Arts Council and formed in with the New Zealand Ballet Trust Board. For the first 15 years it was called the National School of Ballet. Other directors include Russell Kerr (1967 - 1968), Dorothy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Parris Goebel
Parris Renee Goebel (), also known professionally as Parris, is an Emmy Award winning New Zealand Choreographer, Dancer, Singer, Director and actress. She is the Founder and main Choreographer of the Dance School, “The Palace Dance Studio", which has produced Dance Crews such as ReQuest Dance Crew, ReQuest, Sorority, Bubblegum, and The Royal Family. The latter has won the World Hip Hop Dance Championship three times in a row, becoming the first Dance Crew in history to achieve it. She has worked alongside multiple mainstream artists including Rihanna, Jennifer Lopez, Normani; and has choreographed the music videos for "What Do You Mean?" and "Yummy (Justin Bieber song), Yummy" by Justin Bieber, "Touch (Little Mix song), Touch" by Little Mix, "Level Up (Ciara song), Level Up" by Ciara, and "How Do You Sleep? (Sam Smith song), How Do You Sleep?" by Sam Smith. Goebel was nominated for the MTV Video Music Award for Video of the Year as a Director on "Sorry (Justin Bieber song), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Susan Jordan
Susan Jordan (born 1947) is a New Zealand dancer, choreographer and dance instructor. Biography Jordan began dancing at the age of 7, and danced professionally with the New Zealand Ballet Company from the age of 17. She briefly gave up dancing to study typing and shorthand at a business school, and then theology with the aim of becoming a missionary, however she returned to dancing. Jordan considered studying ballet in England or Australia but instead completed a Master of Arts degree in dance in Washington, D.C in the United States, where she was exposed to the teachings of Martha Graham. On her return to New Zealand she established the dance studies programme at the University of Auckland and taught the Graham technique. In 1976, she founded a modern dance company in Auckland called Movement Theatre. Jordan established her own dance company, Jordan & Present Co, and during the 1980s and 1990s choreographed works for Creative New Zealand and its predecessor the Queen Elizabeth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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