Dance in Wellington, New Zealand
Lower Hutt’s Town Hall was the setting for NZFTD’s Harbour City Championships on the 7th May. Although the lighting seems to have improved – with new lights over the stage and an attractive stage design – this venue still struggles to be big enough to hold a dance competition in. I know overseas there are [...] Read more »
Other people celebrate Easter by eating too much, or maybe going to the batch or even staying home and doing nothing. New Zealand danceport competitors dance all weekend instead – thanks to the long-running double competition put on at Easter in Nelson’s Trafalgar Centre. Nelson Easter Dancesport Competition Unique in New Zealand (and Australia as far [...] Read more »
The Wellington Town Hall was the classy location for the Wellington Out Games Dancesport Competition last Sunday. It always seems a shame to me that so many of our local competitions are held in what are, frankly, pretty tired old halls which don’t really fit with the spectacle that is Ballroom Dancing – men in [...] Read more »
Just a reminder for all you who are competitive ballroom dancers – as an amateur dancer you are represented by New Zealand Dancesport – and you can join the local Wellington branch at the AGM./p> As a special incentive to attend the AGM and join NZDA Wellington for the coming year, we will be giving [...] Read more »
More options for New Zealand’s dance professionals. Like the dance capitals of the world, Wellington too offers professional dancers somewhere to keep up their skills. Raising the Barre offers both classical and contemporary drop-in classes at the Royal New Zealand Ballet world class studios. One of the founders, Merenia Gray, choreographer and former international contemporary dancer saw the need [...] Read more »
According to the DomPost – the Mayor Ceilia Wade-Brown – thinks that her councillors should be taking up dancing – specifically Ballroom Dancing. Actually if they did they would be following in the steps of other politicians including Tim Shadbolt – who generated huge publicity as the dancing Invercargill Mayor on Dancing with the Stars [...] Read more »
There are lots of ways to learn to dance – but one of the best is to find a local dance class. Wellington or London or New York city – any town of more than a few thousand pepole will probably host some form of dance class! But what type of class are you looking [...] Read more »
The Community Education Centre based at Wellington High School and Newlands College has offered dance classes for adult beginners for many years. All dance classes are offered at the central city campus of Wellington High School. In Term 1 2010 they are offering classes which include Partner Dancing (Ballrom and Latin American), Bollywood Fusion Dance, [...] Read more »
Whether you want to get fit, meet knew people or just learn a new skill - taking a dance class can be a great excuse to get out and get active. Read more »
Many people – particulary after they ate and drank too much at Christmas will decide to join a gym in the New Year. Maybe they even intend to go to the gym more than a few times. Few will though – that’s why gym’s make such good money out of those annual memberships – all [...] Read more »