Dancing
Number dyslexia and counting successes: hip-hop dancer Yami 'Rowdy' Löfvenberg
Yami 'Rowdy' Löfvenberg has difficulty understanding numbers, and couldn't read an analogue clock until she was 18, yet needs to count beats for her art. The award-winning British-based hip-hop artist… Audio, Gallery
Music trumps TV and baking for feel-good lockdown moments
Have you listened to more music during lockdown? A recent study in Australia asked participants to rank lockdown activities in terms of most to least effective at making them "feel better." Audio
How listening to calming music at bedtime can help you sleep
A new study has found that listening to music does, in fact, help older adults get a better night's sleep. Australian music psychology expert Dr Thomas Dickson, creator of the Can't Sleep app, says… Audio
Cultural Ambassador - Latin American Music
Mona-Lynn Courteau is back once again. Tonight we're being treated to a tango. Video, Audio
Chris Tubbs - therapeutic benefits of dancing
DJ Chris Tubbs makes a case for the therapeautic benefits of dancing and thinks now is the time we need to move more than ever Audio
My Xmas Song: Dino Jag, 'Christmas Day'
Dion Jag had been meaning to write a Christmas song for years, but it took a pandemic to lock him down in his home studio for long enough to finally get one over the line. Now he wants to see people… Audio
Green MP Dr Elizabeth Kerekere on Lola, by the Kinks
Fifty years ago 'Lola' by the Kinks, was number one in NZ. The hit-song tells the story of Lola, who "walked like a woman but talked like a man". Green MP, and LGBTIQ activist Dr Elizabeth Kerekere… Audio
Young Kiwi lives her teen dream dancing for Lady Gaga
When Emma-Kate Putnam saw Lady Gaga performing at Auckland's Vector Arena in 2010, she had an epiphany. From that point on she knew she wanted to be on stage with the mega star. And recently she was… Video, Audio
Artist Audrey Baldwin has been devising ways to get people moving
The Arts Centre Te Matatiki Toi Ora in Christchurh is encouraging patrons and passers-by to get into the swing of things and dance around their spaces. Audio
Director and choreographer Michael Keegan-Dolan
Irish director and choreographer Michael Keegan-Dolan (aka Micháel MacAodhagáin-O'Dobhailen) was last seen at the festival in 2018 with a production of Swan Lake. He returns with the Teac Da sa… Video, Audio
Middle-age misery hits at 47.2
Dartmouth College Professor David Blanchflower has studied data across 132 countries to measure the relationship between wellbeing and age and come up with a U-shaped happiness curve, which reaches… Audio
Tomas Matthews: The key to getting people on the dance floor
What makes people jump to their feet and on to the dance floor? Tomas Matthews from Concordia University's department of psychology researched just that. Video, Audio
Older Aucklanders' & their feisty feet
The Feisty Feet Senior Dancers programme is a network of dancers aged 60 and up which has now welcomed over 1,120 class participants over three years and is fast gaining momentum in the Auckland… Audio
Silencing stereotypes in pursuit of ballet dreams
A new documentary sheds light on the challenges faced by male ballet dancers in pursuit their dreams. Danseur by Scott Gormley examines the experience of American male dancers - but their experiences… Audio
Rodney Bell: Dancing a Duet with a wheelchair
Rodney Bell left Aotearoa to dance in the US - with his wheelchair - and spent years homeless in San Francisco between lavish tours in Hawaii or New York, and says the Māori perspective helped him get… Video, Audio, Gallery
The 500th anniversary of the dancing plague
And 500 years ago, perhaps to this very day, certainly in was the middle of July, they began to dance in the street in Strasbourg. It's the 500th anniversary of the dancing plague of 1518. That's… Audio
PM asks for briefing on RNZ Ballet crisis
Jacinda Ardern has asked for a briefing on what is happening at Royal NZ ballet as reports emerge that up to 20 of 36 dancers are either leaving, or haven't had their contracts renewed. Video, Audio
Dancing Bans in America
Many of us will remember the film Footloose, about a small American town that banned dancing with a quintessentially 80s soundtrack. Turns out, the story wasn't that fantastical - throughout history… Audio
High fives for high kicks! From Dunedin to the Moulin Rouge
High kicks, feathers, rhinestones and the sequins of the Moulin Rouge are part of everyday life for Dunedin cancan dancer Glendene Regan. Audio, Gallery
Le Grand Continental® dancers shake their thing
Back in October we brought you the story of the masses of Wellingtonians of all ages, shapes and sizes queuing up at auditions to take part in Kiwibank Le Grand Continental® the huge public spectacle… Audio