Short+Sweet Dance Auckland 2013

The Gala Final last night was a fantastic evening of dance and made the judges decisions very hard!!! After much deliberation it was decided …. DANZ Best Choreography Award (Giesen wine, DANZ Choreographic Mentoring worth up to $400, TAPAC Studio Hire up to 4 hours): AMELIA GREY IndependANCE Best Male Performer Award (Giesen wine, DANZ […]

WEEK TWO of Short + Sweet Dance is here and what a cracker it is! Have a look below to see who is featured in Week Two including ballet and boyz, monkeys and nuns! Cripes. Collage      Choreography Tessa Martin Dancers: Georgia Giesen, Jeremy Haxton, Sarah Elsworth, Tessa Martin Music: Sam Cooke, The Three Degrees, The Sapphires, […]

Wild Card and Week 1 is done and we’re STOKED to announce the works that were chosen to go through to the Gala Final and be that much closer to winning one of two lots of $500 and other awesome prizes! From Wild Card Georgia Giesen was picked for the Judge’s Vote, and Wasabi Dance […]

  “SERIOUS, SAVVY, REFLECTIVE, FUNNY AND SCARY”   This first of the Short+Sweet programmes provides the audience with variety, including the serious, savvy, reflective, funny and scary, within a certain amount of homogeneity. Risk taking, arguably an important feature of new dance works, is present in some of the twelve works more than others. Nevertheless, […]

SHORT + SWEET DANCE WEEK 1 28th May – 1st June Peace. Choreographer: Joshua Grace. Dancers: Kimi Young, Nita Latu, Pauline Hiroti, and Sophie Williams. Music: Live acoustic music performance by Matt Nanai, and Joshua Grace. Were all lost souls, in this world nobody knows? Whether you’re a, businessman or a bum with snotty nose. […]