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News
Autumn school 2021
Another successful Autumn School with students coming from all over New Zealand. Congratulations to those that received scholarships. We hope to see you all back next year in the first week of the April school holidays. Juniors Naomi Estrade – Autumn School 2022 Intermediates Peyton Luamanu – Autumn School 2022 Mio Denize – aDvANCE Programme 2021 Seniors Olivia Duncan – aDvANCE… Read more →
Student successes
Congratulations to our aDvANCE students Martha, Olivia, Lotti and Rosanna who have all successfully auditioned and been offered places in classical, contemporary or commercial dance, pre-professional programmes at the following schools, NZ School of Dance (Contemporary) – Wellington, TeAuaha (Commercial) – Wellington, The National Theatre (Classical) – Melbourne, Classical 121 -Sydney, Ballet Theatre Australia – Melbourne. Read more →
Autumn school 2020
A successful autumn school deferred from April and held in July due to Convid19. Congratulations to all this years nominees and the overall scholarship winners. Juniors Peyton Luamanu – Autumn School 2021 Blake Russell – 2 hr private classical lesson with Miss Abigail Boyle Intermediates Amelia Maguire – Autumn School 2021 Mia Charles – 2hr private PBT lesson Miss Kathryn… Read more →
Autumn School 2019
A great time had by all. Congratulations to our scholarship winners Juniors – Maia McLaughlin – Autumn School 2020 Intermediate – Sophia Hickey – Autumn School 2020 Senior – Kaia Jiang – 1 week full time immersed in the aDvANCE Programme. Autumn School 2020 will be back to the first week of the April school holidays. Read more →
AHA Awards
Congratulations to all our students that competed in the AHA Awards. 575 competitors across Australasia, an awesome experience had by all. Read more →
Guest Tutors from Canada for the aDvANCE Programme
A taste of jazz/commercial dance, acting and how to survive the audition experience: Kristina & Alexis will take students through an audition process, exploring each dancer’s ability to present themselves confidently in the audition room. Following a group warm-up, dancers will learn a movement phrase, loosen up with some acting games, and then be taken through a mock audition. Q… Read more →
National Performing Arts Awards – PACANZ
Well done to Gemma and Olivia who were nominated by Hutt Valley Performing Arts and Palmerston North Dance Association respectively to represent them at the National Performing Arts Awards in Palmerston North at labour weekend. Both danced their two variations beautifully. Thank you to both associations for the lovely flowers that they received and also to PACANZ for providing these opportunities for NZ… Read more →
Farewell to Martha
It is time to bid Martha farewell and wish her well as she embarks the next step in her journey to becoming a professional dancer . We have watch her grow and flourish over the last 3 years and wish her every success in Canada with the School of Alberta Ballet where she will be dancing fulltime for the next 2 years. Read more →
Full time training at the School of Alberta Ballet
Congratulations Byron on being accepted into full time training with the School of Alberta Ballet. We will miss you and wish you every success for your next step in the journey. Read more →