Kiwi dancer Lance Savali is "living the dream" as he tours the world as a back-up dancer for pop queen Rihanna.

Hot-stepping dance sensation Parris Goebel said young Kiwis should back themselves to make it on to the worldwide stage.

Taking dance to provinces and to the young is company focus.

If one of the roles of an arts festival is to present genre-blurring work, then the Auckland festival is doing its job with a show that opens this week.

A good part of the excitement at Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra's latest dance project was experiencing our city's favourite orchestra in the faux-Egyptian temple of The Civic.

Auckland Arts Festival is providing a trifecta opportunity for Wellington composer Gareth Farr.

A number of classes have cropped up around the country catering to aspiring dancers with classes such as ballet for adults, ballroom, contemporary, hip hop and Latin styles.

Lose weight, shake your booty ... welcome to the gyrating world of burlesquercise.

British author Roger Scruton has used his latest work to offer a withering critique of much of modern dancing.

Parris Goebel is TimeOut's entertainer of the year. After helping create this week's cover, she sat down to talk 2015 and beyond with Lydia Jenkin.

A young dancer's journey towards becoming a professional ballerina is a step closer after she was awarded the country's most prestigious ballet scholarship.

The winners at the annual local short film derby has been named with the best film now eligible to be considered for the Academy Awards.

Sore and blistered feet from hours of working to perfect a dance move might tip an ordinary person over the edge.

Black Grace founder and director Neil Ieremia has created a new work from sections of what has gone before.

Mitimiti has its beginnings in choreographer Jack Gray's personal journey in search of a closer connection with his Te Rarawa heritage and marae in the Hokianga.

Perri Exeter is a choreographer and dance teacher at Rutherford College where her students got the best scholarship results in New Zealand.

From high-school teacher to a professional in the art of burlesque dancing - Natalie Hugill, left, has done it all.

If you are going to do fairies there can be no holding back, so wunderkind English choreographer Liam Scarlett unashamedly mixes.

The three choreographers contributing state of the art pieces for this ground-breaking season with the New Zealand Dance Company were given the brief of "light, illumination, space, image and movement" by the company's artistic director Shona McCullagh.

Duncan Armstrong is a professional dancer for the Touch Compass dance company. The 26-year-old Wellingtonian talks to Jennifer Dann.

Dance, dance, wherever you may be - at least that's what the cast of Lord of the Dance were doing yesterday.