Dancing

The dancer who managed to create a career in ballet despite being brought up in a Palestinian refugee camp after fleeing the Syrian war and against fierce opposition from his father.

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Yami 'Rowdy' Löfvenberg has difficulty understanding numbers, and couldn't read an analogue clock until she was 18, yet needs to count beats for her art. The award-winning British-based hip-hop artist… Audio, Gallery

Have you listened to more music during lockdown? A recent study in Australia asked participants to rank lockdown activities in terms of most to least effective at making them "feel better."  Audio

A new study has found that listening to music does, in fact, help older adults get a better night's sleep. Australian music psychology expert Dr Thomas Dickson, creator of the Can't Sleep app, says… Audio

Mona-Lynn Courteau is back once again. Tonight we're being treated to a tango. Video, Audio

DJ Chris Tubbs makes a case for the therapeautic benefits of dancing and thinks now is the time we need to move more than ever Audio

Dion Jag had been meaning to write a Christmas song for years, but it took a pandemic to lock him down in his home studio for long enough to finally get one over the line. Now he wants to see people… Audio

Fifty years ago 'Lola' by the Kinks, was number one in NZ. The hit-song tells the story of Lola, who "walked like a woman but talked like a man". Green MP, and LGBTIQ activist Dr Elizabeth Kerekere… Audio

When Emma-Kate Putnam saw Lady Gaga performing at Auckland's Vector Arena in 2010, she had an epiphany. From that point on she knew she wanted to be on stage with the mega star. And recently she was… Video, Audio

The Arts Centre Te Matatiki Toi Ora in Christchurh is encouraging patrons and passers-by to get into the swing of things and dance around their spaces. Audio

Irish director and choreographer Michael Keegan-Dolan (aka Micháel MacAodhagáin-O'Dobhailen) was last seen at the festival in 2018 with a production of Swan Lake. He returns with the Teac Da sa… Video, Audio

Dartmouth College Professor David Blanchflower has studied data across 132 countries to measure the relationship between wellbeing and age and come up with a U-shaped happiness curve, which reaches… Audio

What makes people jump to their feet and on to the dance floor? Tomas Matthews from Concordia University's department of psychology researched just that. Video, Audio

The Feisty Feet Senior Dancers programme is a network of dancers aged 60 and up which has now welcomed over 1,120 class participants over three years and is fast gaining momentum in the Auckland… Audio

A new documentary sheds light on the challenges faced by male ballet dancers in pursuit their dreams. Danseur by Scott Gormley examines the experience of American male dancers - but their experiences… Audio

Rodney Bell left Aotearoa to dance in the US - with his wheelchair - and spent years homeless in San Francisco between lavish tours in Hawaii or New York, and says the Māori perspective helped him get… Video, Audio, Gallery

And 500 years ago, perhaps to this very day, certainly in was the middle of July, they began to dance in the street in Strasbourg. It's the 500th anniversary of the dancing plague of 1518. That's… Audio

Jacinda Ardern has asked for a briefing on what is happening at Royal NZ ballet as reports emerge that up to 20 of 36 dancers are either leaving, or haven't had their contracts renewed. Video, Audio

Many of us will remember the film Footloose, about a small American town that banned dancing with a quintessentially 80s soundtrack. Turns out, the story wasn't that fantastical - throughout history… Audio