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Russell Ian Kerr ONZM QSM (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.
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.
Dance in New Zealand includes cultural dance, [68] ballet, [69] hiphop, [70] contemporary dance, [71] and kapa haka [72] and is participated in by many people around New Zealand. Dance Aotearoa New Zealand is the national organisation representing dancers of all types. [73] The dance sector spans performance, education and the community.
The Limbs Dance Company was formed in Auckland, New Zealand in May 1977 and disbanded in Wellington in September 1989. [1] Limbs was "the first contemporary dance company in New Zealand to win a general following", [2] and performed alongside notable New Zealand acts such as Split Enz. [3] Limbs Dance Company in 1981 at a Nambassa festival in ...
Wright was born in Tuakau, South Auckland, in 1956. [4] From 1980 to 1983 he danced with the Limbs Dance Company and choreographed a number of works on the company [5] before travelling to New York where he danced with the Paul Taylor Company, 1983–1987 and London with DV8 Physical Theatre, 1988.
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. [3] [4] On her return to New Zealand she established the dance studies programme at the University of Auckland and taught the Graham ...
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