Student Achievements
Koharu
Iino.
2020
Awarded a scholarship by SABA to attend Victoria State ballet summer intensive in Australia.
Anjula
Kelly
2013
X- Factor Australia, NZ & UK
Winner Hillary Peacock Award
2015
X Factor UK
Britain's Got Talent
Illusionists on London's West End
Take That
Little Mix
Sunday Night at the Palladium
MOBO awards
Rugby World Cup
European Games closing ceremony in Baku
Alan Carr
Commonwealth Games closing ceremony with Lulu
2016
Tour around Europe with singer, Anastacia
Resident dancer on a TV show in the UK called "Dance Dance Dance"
2017
Signed with top agency MSA in America
2019
VMA's
Dancer Jennifer Lopez - Iheart radio Fiesta Latina
America's Got Talent
Jennifer Lopez @ Iheart radio Fiesta Latina
Daragh Bonnici
2020
Attended Classical coaching Australia summer intensive and was awarded entry into Brisbane City Youth Ballet for their 2021 season of The Snow Queen.
Was accepted into the RNZB mentor program.
Awarded a summer intensive scholarship to Lion Heart dance company in Australia by SABA.
Alice McArthur
2019
Winner of Asian Grand Prix
Winner Hillary Peacock Award
Won entry in YAGP finals receiving:
Scholarship to:
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JKO in New York
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Dutch National Ballet School
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European School of Ballet
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San Francisco Ballet School
Jane Strickland
2009
Graduate Dance World 301 Melbourne
2013
X-Factor NZ
2014
Freelance Dancer & Teacher, Soul of Siren, Sky City Cheerleaders
2017
Momentum Productions
Pleasure Dome - The musical
Brianna King
2017
Successful placement into Dance Force, Australia
2019
Dancer for Royal Caribbean
Danielle Timbers
2011
Dancer for Diamond Dance Company
2012
Dancer at Encore Cabaret
Warriors Cheerleader
Breakers Cheerleader
2012
Dancer for Soul of Siren Dance Company
2016
Core dancer/member of Momentum Productions
Catherine McKay
2008
Graduate Excel Performing Arts
2010+
Teacher in Jazz & Hip Hop
Examiner for Jazz Dance NZ (JDNZ)
2018
Teacher in Hong Kong
Rebecca Bassett-Graham
2011
Graduate New Zealand School of Dance – Diploma in Dance Performance, Contemporary Major
2012
Apprentice Dancer – DanceNorth, Australia
Internship with New Zealand Dance Company – Rotunda
2013
Company Dancer - Lewis Major and Company
2014+
UK based dancer dancing in music videos, dance companies (with solo performances and model such as Revlon UK)
2017
Company dancer for Wayne McGregor
Bianca Hylsop
2008
Vodafone Warriors Cheerleader, including multiple corporate events.
2010
Graduate Unitec Contemporary Dance.
Dancer for Atimira Dance Company.
2016
Recipient of the first DANZ Māori Choreolab
Lisa McLaughlan
2012
NZ School of Dance Junior Associates Programme
2013
Runner Up Performing Arts Association of NZ Jazz Award
2014
Winner Ora Burnett Jazz Award
Winner NZAMD Contemporary Scholarship
2015
Understudy for The New Zealand Dance Company
2017
Sydney Dance Company - Pre Professional
One Flat Thing Reproduced - William Forsyth under Strut dance in Perth WA (Paul Norton) directed by Forsyth foundation and ex dancers Ayman Harper and Cyril Baldy
Rosemary Martin
2017+
Senior Lecturer in Dance Studies at the University of Auckland.
Master's and then PhD in Dance Studies from the University of Auckland.
Learning and performing experiences in Australia, London, Canada and Japan.
Published author such as author of Talking dance: Contemporary histories from the Southern Mediterranean (I.B Tauris, 2014) with Associate Professor Nicholas Rowe and Associate Professor Ralph Buck.
Graduate NZ School of Dance
Royal NZ Ballet Company
Professor of Dance University of Auckland
Caitlin Davey
2015
Completed Bachelor of Performing and Screen Arts - Contemporary Dance
2016
Co-choreographed performer in the critically acclaimed and award winning show 'Fabricate'
Teacher at The Dance Studio, Auckland
2019
Selected as the first recipient of the DANZ Dance Residency
Kimberley Halberg
2017
Transit Dance Melbourne Pre-Professional Contemporary Programme
