Dance Canopy 05
D A N C E C O N F E R E N C E - T U A N U I   W H A K A M A R U
A conference to celebrate the diversity of dance in Aotearoa New Zealand!
9 to 15 July 2005, Auckland

This year's dance conference Tuanui Whakamaru - Dance Canopy 05 is an ambitious dance enterprise and the first of its kind in New Zealand. In a bold move, four dance ventures are being held almost concurrently and all with a kilometre or two of each other in Auckland. TUHONO - Intersections, The Tertiary Dance Festival, in association with DANZ, is being held from 9- 15 July at Unitec School of Performing and Screen Arts. Alongside of this is Kahui Whetu - The Stars, which is mentoring, both creation and performance, for the professional dance community. The NZADT, the New Zealand Association of Dance Teacher's Conference is also being held at Unitec from 13 to 15th July and Kokirikiri - Moving Forward - which celebrates dance in the school curriculum and youth dance with a Teachers Refresher Course is being held at TAPAC, just down the road from 11 to 15th July.

Overall conference coordinator, Mary Jane O'Reilly said the conference was a unique opportunity for practitioners, choreographers, students, private studio and school teachers to attend workshops, performances and forums. "Conferences are always great for networking and this one will be especially good as it covers such a wide range of ages and experience. Students will be able to meet potential employers such as teachers and choreographers, teachers and choreographers can meet each other and students can meet dance people from their special area of passion or expertise - from film dance to dance health, to all the different dance techniques and aesthetics. So often the various sectors of the dance community work in isolation from each other - so this will provide networking opportunities which I am sure will have a lasting impact."

The Tertiary Dance Festival is expecting a large number of students from all over New Zealand, and some from Australia, in particular from WAPPA in Perth to attend. There will classes in the four dance styles, classical ballet, mainstream dance, contemporary and multi-cultural. As well as classes, there will be workshops in current performance research perspectives; dance writing and reviewing; beginner to advanced level techniques; professional and choreographic practices; cutting edge technologies and developments and dance health, injury prevention and management. The Unitec dance foyer will be a market place to advertise events or activities and practitioners and schools can set up stalls alongside monitors showing video dance work.

There will also be a performance by a senior practitioner (yet to be finalised) showings by students and a formal dinner for the dance industry. Out of town students and tutors can choose to either be billeted with Auckland participants, or for a reasonable rate stay on campus at the Oakridge Student Accommodation. The conferences are well ahead with planning but there are still details to be worked out so keep up-to-date with the latest information plus booking on the website http://www.danz.org.nz/conference

A conference to celebrate the diversity of dance
in Aotearoa New Zealand!
9 to 15 July 2005, Auckland
A multi layered dance conference based at UNITEC School of Performing and Screen
Arts, Auckland, New Zealand and other Auckland venues and institutions
Featuring....
Kahui Whetu - The Stars 9 to 14 July
Celebrating professional dance in New Zealand through mentoring workshops, creation
and performance
Tuhono - intersections Tertiary Dance Festival 9 to 15 July
Celebrating the best of Tertiary Dance through workshops, forums, dance research presentations
and perfomance
Kokirikiri - moving forward - 11 to 15th July
Celebrating dance in the school curriculum and youth dance with TRCC
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Also incorporating
TDENNZA - Tertiary Dance meeting Saturday 16th July 2005
NZADT - NZ Assoc of Dance teacher’s conference 13 to 15th July
DANZ workshops and forums on dance research, health, writing, business, media, and production
Youth Dance Workshops – for secondary school and studio dance students with a serious interest in dance
– participation by application
Evening performances, research presentations
Conference dinner for the Dance Industry, Wednesday 13th July
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Partners and Sponsors
DANZ – Dance Aotearoa New Zealand, TRCC Teachers’ Refresher Course,
UNITEC, AUT, Auckland University, Auckland Faculty of Education, NZADT
ASB Trust, Creative New Zealand.
NOW AVAILABLE - Registration forms for proposals for Kahui Whetu Mentoring stream and workshop and
research proposals for the Tertiary Dance Festival Tuhono.
For more information watch the DANZ website link (the Tuanui Whakamaru – Dance canopy 05 Conference web
site is currently being developed) or contact danz@danz.org.nz, phone 04 801 9885

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