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CLUB BURLESQUE

New Plymouth

14/05/2025 - 14/06/2025

"A sensual night that strips the audience of their conservatism..

TARANAKI COMEDY GALA

New Plymouth

13/06/2025 - 13/06/2025

"Each brings their own rhythm, charm, and power to provoke laughter..

The Tīwhas: A Matariki Spectacular

Wellington, New Plymouth

19/06/2024 - 14/06/2025

"Pride in Māori story-telling, in being Takatāpui, in performance art..

"Flamboyant, lush and absolutely rooted in truth, heart and love..

Double Bill – KUINI & SHAPES IN THE CLOUDS

Auckland

10/06/2025 - 11/06/2025

"A double bill of skill, passion and storytelling offering a deep sense of cultural pride...

A NIGHTIME TRAVESTY

Wellington

12/06/2025 - 14/06/2025

"Risks everything to say something loud and messy and true..

Rutene Spooner's Be Like Billy?

Christchurch, Rotorua, Auckland, Gisborne, Nelson, New Plymouth

25/03/2023 - 12/06/2025

"Aroha that holds joy and pain, reverence and reflection..

"A Question for the Times..

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IN VOGUE: SONGS BY MADONNA

New Plymouth

12/06/2025 - 12/06/2025

"An utterly fabulous way to open the Right Royal Cabaret Festival..

Tūī Girls

Wellington

11/06/2025 - 14/06/2025

"Experiences of grief, both for a beloved Nanny and their culture, ingeniously explored..

DARK!DARK!DARK!

Wellington

05/06/2025 - 07/06/2025

"Powerful messaging reaching beyond the dark...

The Circle

Wellington

11/06/2025 - 13/06/2025

"A dance-theatre work of joyful resistance..

'Avaiki Nui Social Returns

Wellington

09/06/2025 - 09/06/2025

"A call to memory that gets the audience dancing..

KA MUA KA MURI

Auckland, Hamilton, Wellington

25/07/2024 - 05/06/2025

"Tradition colliding with innovation through a wonderful mastery of movement, sound and lighting...

"Culturally profound and visually captivating..

Wrest

Auckland

06/06/2025 - 14/06/2025

"Love, anger, frustration, and a cry from the heart. An uncomfortable, but worthy watch...

"Real, relatable and moving; The realities of early motherhood... closer to terror than bliss...

Night and Mortar

Auckland,

13/12/2022 - 14/06/2025

"Alluring, slick dancing that packs a punch...

"A Drop of Dance with your Drink of Choice..

Gates to Memory

Wellington

05/06/2025 - 07/06/2025

"Silhouettes of remembrance: light, lineage, and the reclamation of time...

Stories we share.....

Auckland

07/06/2025 - 07/06/2025

"Truths with purpose and heart from culture-bearers of powerful inclusive dance...

Kuramanunya

Auckland

08/06/2025 - 09/06/2025

"Carrying stories, ritual, and translating memory into the language of the body..

AIGA

Auckland, Nelson, Wellington

20/03/2024 - 07/06/2025

"Showcases the duality of disability and culture through lived experience, performance and dance..

"Fearless performances, deeply moving stories, and championing accessibility in the arts...

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The Aotearoans

Wellington

05/06/2025 - 08/06/2025

"Leaves us laughing, squirming and fundamentally unsettled..

Braiding the Land

Wellington

04/06/2025 - 07/06/2025

"A symbolic journey of the imagination, spirit and land, speaking to us all...

"Inspires empathy with struggle, joy, perseverance, solitude, cohesion, memory, strength and love..

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