Organisations
Dance Aotearoa New Zealand (DANZ)
Professional Association -
Ground Floor
Wellington Arts Centre
65 - 69 Abel Smith Street
Wellington
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Postal address: PO Box 9885, Wellington |
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Relevance and Activity:
Drama, dance and performing arts
Education
DANZ is the national arts, education and service agency for dance in New Zealand.
- DANZ supports professional dance - through professional development workshops, audience development, brokering opportunities for performance and supporting festivals and seasons of dance. In 2003/4, DANZ also produced the Working Guide for NZ Dancers.
- DANZ supports the teaching of dance in primary and secondary schools. The DANZ Education Officer works with teachers and students to implement the new dance curriculum. The Secondary Schools Arts Coordinator (Dance) links schools with professional performance and works with dance companies on the programmes they offer schools. As subject association, DANZ provides a regular schools newsletter and convened a national dance education conference in 2004.
- DANZ gathers and communicates dance information - through the website, DANZnet, the DANZ Magazine, MindMoves (a research service).
- DANZ represents and advocates the interests of the dance sector to central and local government and other organizations . DANZ supports studio dance and recreational dance by brokering and supporting workshops and festivals, by establishing a professional code of ethics for teachers of dance, and by working to build collaboration in the sector.
- DANZ administers the NZ Association of Dance Teachers and the Tertiary Dance Educators' Network of NZ.
Publications:
DANZnet is published five times a year and contains news, reviews and dance information. Key articles in the current issue are listed on the website.DANZ Magazine is published twice a year covering dance issues and mailed to members. The contents page for the current issue is available on the website.SPIN is the subject association publication for dance in schools. The contents page for the current issue is available on the website.Side Step is specially dedicated to writing about dance in Aotearoa, New Zealand. An archive of articles, reviews, papers is on the website. Our main intention is to encourage more writing about dance and related areas from writers in Aotearoa, New Zealand, and to make dance writings more accessible. If you have previously published papers/articles/etc, or unpublished writing ready for submission, please email raewyn@nzdancenews.co.nz. We are interested in any writing about dance and related areas by dancers in Aotearoa, New Zealand, or any writings about dance from Aotearoa, New Zealand by international writers (ie: reviews of performances overseas). A mailing list for news and events can also be subscribed to online.
