The New Zealand Dance Company

The New Zealand Dance Company is rated 3 out of 5 in the category we move you. Read and write reviews about The New Zealand Dance Company. The New Zealand Dance Company (incorporated as The New Zealand Dance Advancement Trust) is an Auckland based, nationally focused contemporary dance company with a vision to create accessible, inspiring, high-calibre dance productions, grow audiences for dance in New Zealand and to provide ongoing career opportunities, mentoring and tutelage for the country's finest dancers and choreographers. Established in 2011, by co-founders Chief Executive/Artistic Director and Arts Laureate Shona McCullagh and the founding General Manager Frances Turner, the company seeks to break the paradigm of dance companies operating on a project by project basis, presenting work by one choreographer, and moved instead to a sustainable model of presenting a variety of choreographic works developed by a suite of emerging, mid-career and experienced practitioners. The New Zealand Dance Company provides a platform for both senior and emerging dancers to develop viable careers in New Zealand and to provide high quality work for our growing audience and artform..