Solange Knowles wants to be a Destiny's Child backing dancer again.

This second season of NOW - New Original Works - truly reflects its name, with four confidently emerging new choreographers, expressing some very original concepts, beautifully performed by the talented and extremely hard-working team of five dancers.

The radio host praised for his fit "dad-bod" says he nearly faked a sickie.

No need for shivering at home in the mid-winter blast, you can find some seasonal sparkle in our top five list this weekend.

Taiaroa Royal's Okareka Dance Company has been selected to perform its popular show K'Rd Strip, a mixture of dance, kapa haka and drag, at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

As his good friend David Beckham told him, Michael Flatley knows that it's best to quit while he is ahead.

Rain is predicted, so we can legitimately head indoors for some winter treats.

Hayley Holt has been turning heads recently after joining the judging panel of Dancing with the Stars.

An ice-skating extravaganza returns - and it has more drama and bigger stunts, choreographer Tony Mercer tells Stephen Jewell.

Kiwi dancer Parris Goebel is set to unleash her killer dance moves on Janet Jackson.

Don't know what to do with yourself this weekend? We've handpicked the top five things to do around Auckland.

Beautiful beyond belief, an exotic Caribbean flock, the dancers are spectacularly talented and drawn from a nation "born to dance".

A young Janet Jackson fan from Mt Wellington is one of 10 dancers from around the globe selected to tour the world with the 49-year-old pop music legend.

The dancing ‘soldier boys’ perfectly translate human strength and fragility in the war, writes Bernadette Rae.

Nick Afoa has roared back to life after injury wrecked his All Black dream.

The opening stage is set with a tall scarlet banner which flows, bloodlike, from the rafters and bears the names, of relatives of the company one suspects, lost to the savageries of war.

The Kiss Inside, an exposition on the primal search for ecstasy, finds him in a new frame of mind though, with an underlying wryness to his observations, anger mitigated, the passion wiser.

Since this is the first time New York dance company Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet has come to New Zealand, members can be forgiven for not being sunsmart.

The high school teacher producing the country's top dance scholars says the secret is treating the teenagers like "mini-professionals".

Katy Perry's widely mocked Left Shark nailed his brief, according to a Super Bowl choreographer.

Northern Ballet's noted production of Charles Dickens' famous tale has all the charm of a very traditional Christmas card.