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The New Zealand Dance Company (incorporated as The New Zealand Dance Advancement Trust) is an Auckland based, nationally focused contemporary dance company with a vision to create accessible, inspiring, high-calibre dance productions, grow audiences for dance in New Zealand and to provide ongoing career opportunities, mentoring and tutelage for the country's finest dancers and choreographers. Established in 2011, by co-founders Chief Executive/Artistic Director (and Arts Laureate) Shona McCullagh and the founding General Manager Frances Turner, the company sought to break the paradigm of dance companies operating on a project by project basis, presenting work by one choreographer, and moved instead to a sustainable model of presenting a variety of choreographic works developed by a suite of emerging, mid-career and experienced practitioners. (The New Zealand Dance Company ) provides a platform for both senior and emerging dancers to have viable careers in New Zealand. With the aim to see senior dancers returning to New Zealand with international experience and expertise and younger, emerging dancers to benefit from the experience of mentoring, training and dancing in professional high-quality productions. == Productions == (Language of Living ) was The New Zealand Dance Company's first production, composed of five short works by New Zealand choreographers. Dreamy McFloat was choreographed by company dancer Tupua Tigafua, is a piece that explores daydreaming and memories, inspired by the ocean and the elderly, with music by Richard M Moyle, Antonio Vivaldi and a poem excerpt from John Pule, Little Sun. Tenerezza was choreographed by Michael Parmenter, with music by C.P.E Bach. Trees, Birds Then People was choreographed by Shona McCullagh, about the curiosity of this land in the absence of land mammals here until the arrival of man, with music by Gareth Farr. Release Your Robot was choreographed by company dancer Justin Haiu, inspired by the street dance movement forms known as robot and liquiding/waving, with music by The Electric Boutique. Human Human God was choreographed by Sarah Foster-Sproull, a physical exploration of how we often perceive Generation Y placing notions of god and spiritually within themselves, with music by Eden Mullholland. Language of Living opened in 2012 at the Aotea Centre in Auckland. In 2013 Language of Living toured the North Island of New Zealand, The New Zealand Dance Company performed in Auckland, Warkworth, Whangarei, Orewa, Hawkes Bay and Wellington. In 2014 Language of Living toured nationally throughout New Zealand, performing in Invercargill, Christchurch, Nelson, New Plymouth and Tauranga. (Rotunda ) is The New Zealand Dance Company's second production, its first full-length work. Rotunda is the first major work for the The New Zealand Dance Company, it commemorates the loss of innocent, good young men who were slaughtered or left traumatised by vents of often ill-planned battles during the first world war. It draws from the extraordinary courage and indomitable spirit of New Zealand men, and women who set out about running the country with aching hearts and dread that their men might not return. Choreographed by Shona McCullagh, with music performed live by a full brass band. In February 2014, The New Zealand Dance Company toured internationally with Rotunda to the prestigious (Holland Dance Festival ) in the Netherlands. The company performed at Stadsschouwburg receiving 4-star reviews, one of the highest given during the festival. In 2014 The New Zealand Dance Company is developing a new work, with plans to tour it in 2015. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The New Zealand Dance Company」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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