The Kids & Teen show is designed to showcase the best of youth dance in Auckland, and this year’s line up is no exception.

Mt Eden Ballet Academy return with a selection of solo and group works, including award-winning soloists Olivia James-Baird, Brooke Ray and Tom McClintock.  Mixed ability company Touch Compass Youth performs Embedded, an award-winning group work choreographed by Sue Cheesman and Suzanne Cowan. Ichiro Harada’s Movie Night is a play on all things cinematic (from popcorn to horror movie screams), performed by Dance Unlimited from the East Auckland Performing Arts School.Pointy Dog from the Performing Arts School of New Zealand offer a new contemporary work, and it’s time to up the tempo with a high-energy hip hop performance or two by students of the The Dance Studio.

Touch Compass Youth: Alisha McLennan, Christina Tran, Tom Webster, Duncan Armstrong, Kristy Colley, John Parsons and Julia Lemmer

Dance Unlimited from the East Auckland Performing Arts School : Georgina Baxendine, Aurelian Child-de-Brocas, Danielle Lightfoot, Victoria Metz, Georgia Roberts, Lillie Scott-Smith, Bonita Sidhu, Gabriel Sidhu, Melanie Van Voornveld, Kirsty Vincent, Cara Lea Wright

The Dance Studio: Boyzdance2 - Faolan Okan, Timmy Smith, Nathaniel Moody, Jackson and William Tuarae, Henk Tomkins,Oli Mathieson, Billy Mc Coll; Xclusiv Hip Hop Crew members - Jessica Watson, Kit Alofa, Jackson Tuarae, Georgia May

Pointy Dog - Elizabeth Turner, Kendall Jones, Briana Chapman, Genevieve Connell, Annie Lines, Caitlin Thompson, Jordyn Wright, Kate Mitchell, Sophie McIntyre, Allanah Prins, Hana Kirk, Lydia Connolly-Hiatt,

Mt Eden Ballet Academy - Olivia James-Baird, Brooke Ray and Tom McClintock; Piper Byers, Grace Dickson, Breana Drummond, Larissa Kiyoto- Ward, Isabella Klisser, Coco Lennon, Thomas McClintock, Sarah Peart, Naia Roberts, Alice Shirreffs, Emma Toogood, Alexandra Turner, Hannah Watts, Alessandra Yan; Kaena Ahern, Nicole Ashby, Katie Hobson- Brown, Ariana Hond, , Melody Martin, Imogen McGill, Jasmine Mexted, Thealyssa Ng, Molly Praggert, Siobhan Price, Brooke Ray, Olivia Robertson, Natalie Welch, Olivia Whyte, Leah Winters, Ling Zhang, Margaret Zhou

1 hour