Co-Artistic Coordinator
Dance – Lydia Zanetti

Lydia Zanetti is a choreographer, dancer, producer, stage manager, lighting designer and publicist. She is a graduate of Unitec’s Contemporary Dance programme and DANZ in association with University of Auckland’s Producing Project.

Always more drawn to the choreographic and hybrid elements of her training, she graduated and put together the show I HEART that toured Auckland and Dunedin Fringe Festivals. From there she went on to choreograph and produce for Joan of Hearts and The LIVE Series (through the Producing Project). In mid-2013, Zanetti ran a 3 day development period to begin the creation of a new work looking at togetherness, and ‘I’ separation from ‘others’ to premiere in late 2014, furthering on from her other explorations in works such as Part of the Landscape, Love Lydia, Lydia Love and untitled for Insert Life Here. She also recently made a work on youth contemporary dance company Pointy Dog (who she has also been teaching) for You Dance 2014.

As a producer, Zanetti has assisted on the inaugural season of New Zealand Dance Company’s Language of Living, production managed for the Auckland Arts Festival as well as leading a number of different productions under Sweaty Heart Productions. In recent years she has worked as dance co-coordinator for Short+Sweet Dance Festival 2013/14, stage manager for Tempo Dance Festival 2012/13, lighting designer/operator for a number of different Basement seasons and publicist for Elephant Publicity. She was most recently seen onstage dancing for Natalie Maria Clark in her successful season of Apt Y Idos at the Loft, Q Theatre.