When Ursula Robb, New Zealand dancer turned global star, takes the stage in her stunning solo Faune the everyday world stops.

After six years off, acclaimed NZ dancer returns to her passion, writes Sarah Lang.

Following an exceptional launch season in 2012, The New Zealand Dance Company (NZDC) is thrilled to announce their six centre North Island tour of Language of Living this May/June. The company makes a one-night-only return to Auckland’s Aotea Centre before hitting the road to premiere the show in Wellington, Hawke’s Bay, Whangarei, Orewa and Warkworth.

Following the excellent French documentary La Danse and New Zealand's reality series about our national ballet company, Bess Kargman's expose of the Youth America Grand Prix dance competition is riveting.

Over the next few months children, from tots to teens, can immerse themselves in music, comedy and drama as they like it: loud and boisterous, writes Dionne Christian.

King Kong thunders into Melbourne this June. Rachel Grunwell meets the lead.

Dance music stars Swedish House Mafia have officially disbanded after playing their final show at Florida's Ultra Music Festival on Sunday.

Choreographers Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui and Damien Jalet take the biblical story of the Tower of Babel with its smiting of the human race into painful divisions of nationality and language.

Around 100,000 people are expected at Western Springs Lakeside Park in Auckland today for the annual Pasifika festival.

Cantina opens with a velvety voiced crooner promising to "shoot the moon right out of the sky" and honours that with an exhilarating acrobatics display set in the seductive ambience of a 1920s speak-easy.

South Korea's Psy will perform his famous Gangnam Style dance at an event organised by Malaysia's ruling coalition, an official says as the bloc tries to attract young voters ahead of polls.

Nicole Kidman has defended her recent TV lap dance, explaining the saucy spectacle was totally "impromptu".

An informal street dance style that was born when the American GI's introduced Paris to the jitterbug in World War II.

The Royal NZ Ballet's season of Giselle is wowing audiences with its revitalised version of the classic story of love, betrayal and revenge. Raewyn Whyte reports.