35 research outputs found
A Pacific Island story
Neil Ieremia, artistic director of Black Grace, has gone back to his Samoan roots for inspiration for the new full length work ‘Gathering Clouds’
Review: The Collection
Review of the dance performance, The Collectio
Dance and disability: Embracing difference, tensions and complexities
In this paper I am particularly interested in unpacking the notion that dancers with a visible disability are both marginalised and hyper-visible. I refer to selected dance examples available on YouTube and consider these in relation to Whatley’s (2007) presumption of difference indicators in support of my aim to expand research into the area of dance and disability. Viewing these dance examples provided a ‘bouncing off’ point from which to unpack how these performances are perceived and made meaningful by their audiences. Drawing from discussion tasks set at several different conferences in response to viewing these dance examples, I share initial findings and consider issues that arose in embracing difference, tensions and complexities
Somatic teacher/sage Sondra Fraleigh
Somatic teacher and sage Sondra Fraleigh discusses somatics and Butoh. Sondra Fraleigh is an American academic, accomplished writer and well-renowned teacher of dance, particularly in the field of somatics. In January this year, Sondra accepted an invitation from the Soul Centre in Auckland to visit New Zealand
DVD Review: Move it
DVD review of Move it (Dance class choreographed and taught by Anita Hutchins)
DZIAH to dance
Sue Cheesman talks to Billy Paea, director of DZIAH, a South Auckland-based hip hop dance crew
Olive and Otto: Placing dance outside the theatre-within the body
Olive Bieringa, a first generation New Zealander, and Otto Ramstad, a third generation American, travel the globe by desire and necessity in order to connect with land, family, explore new cultural contexts and sustain their work practices in dance. These two co-directors, dance performers and video artists regularly return to New Zealand, this time primarily, to run a weeklong BodyCartography project, and to teach the first Body-Mind Centering© (BMC) workshop in NZ