DANZ resources for dance

Production/Funding

• NEW: Pricing Dance - Pricing and developing audiences (277KB PDF file)
• NEW: Find your Match - Sponsorship for dance (190KB PDF file)
• You're in Business - Tax and business for dance by Melanie Hamilton (280KB PDF file)
• Dance Venues - New Zealand dance performance & rehearsal venues
• Festivals - dance festivals and competitions in New Zealand and Australia
• Funding - Scholarships, residencies and funding for New Zealand dance
• A Working Guide for New Zealand Dancers - Practical guide for producing successful dance projects.
• Contemporary Dance Audiences - Research into contemporary dance audiences in New Zealand, commissioned by DANZ (1.03MB word doc). Audience Survey Form (70KB word doc)

Health and Wellbeing

• NEW: Pilates and Dance by Tania Huddart (293KB PDF file)

• NEW: Dance Fitness - Why train for aerobic fitness (106KB PDF file)

• NEW: Nutrition information for dancers (115KB PDF file)

• Dance Injury Management - Practical advice on warning signs and treatment of dance injuries by Physiotherapist Susan Simpson  (248KB PDF file)

• Health Issues for Dancers - Results of DANZ research into health issues faced by New Zealand contemporary dancers

Dance and Education

• NEW: Dance styles - History and links
• Lesson Plan for Secondary Teaching, years 7-13 (147KB PDF file)
• Education Resources - buy DVDs, Videos, books and music CDs to assist with teaching dance
• Tertiary Dance programmes & courses in New Zealand

Community Dance

• Community dance resource - by Petra Kuppers (260KB PDF file)

Professional Development

• NEW: DANZ Code of Professional Practice for New Zealand Dancers - including conditions of employment and NZ legislation (206KB PDF file available to download)
• DANZ Code of Professional Practice for New Zealand Choreographers (211KB PDF file)
• DANZ Code of Professional Practice for Teachers of Dance
• A Career in Dance (267KB PDF file)
• Landing a Role - Audition advice for dancers by Annabel Reader (213KB PDF file)
• DANZ Mentoring Programme

Promotion / Marketing / Events Listings

• DANZ Diary - New Zealand dance events and opportunities
• DANZ email subscription - Receive information about New Zealand dance by email from DANZ
• NZ Dance News - Subscribe to New Zealand dance information email service (sponsored by DANZ)

Dance writing

• DANZ Quarterly  - The magazine of Dance Aotearoa New Zealand
• SideStep - Archive of New Zealand dance writing including features, reviews, research abstracts, programme notes

Other resources

• Moving On - Ausdance resource on career transition of professional dancers (1.49MB PDF file)
• NZ Department of Statistics reports: Employment in the Cultural Sector and Government Spending on Culture (2000-2004)
• Fuel 4 Arts - Arts marketing web site
• The Big Idea - An online community of New Zealand's creative industries
• Keeping it Legal - Easy to use legal information for the non-profit sector
• Starting an Incorporated Society - Ministry for Economic Development
• Creative New Zealand arts sector resources - including Full House: Turning Data into Audiences, The Touring Manual by Fenn Gordon, Smart Arts: marketing the arts in New Zealand and Getting on Board, a governance guide for arts organisations.

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