The Body Festival 2010

Find the dance of your dreams - the 2010 Body Festival kicks off with Speed Dancing on 24 September followed by two jam-packed, high-energy weeks of community workshops, NZ’s best dance companies, guest tango artists from Argentina, film, exhibitions and more. The festival then goes into overdrive with a huge Zumba® Party on 10 October. Join the fun! Spring into dance!

Performance:

The Body Festival brings many of New Zealand’s finest dance and physical theatre performers to town. Christchurch’s highly acclaimed Southern Lights Dance Company, contemporary tango company Lado Ciego from Argentina, Atamira Dance Company and the New Zealand School of Dance, are just a few highlights of the 18 diverse performances on offer.

Workshops:

Running alongside the performance programme, over 50 community workshops cover a huge variety of dance styles. Every year Christchurch’s residents embrace the chance to ‘spring into dance’ and get their winter-bound bodies moving in these have-a-go workshops.

Whether it’s urban dance or salsa, belly dance or wu tao, dancing is fun and it’s good for you too. The health benefits of dance are becoming more and more recognised and this is evidenced in the new partnership the festival is forging with The Heart Foundation for this year.

ZUMBA party: To wrap up an energetic 2010 programme, the Body Festival goes into overdrive to close with a huge ZUMBA® Party at the Christchurch Art Gallery on 10 October, celebrating the dance craze that is taking the world and Christchurch by storm.

Festival director Adam Hayward firmly believes that “no matter what your connection with dance you WILL find something in this year’s programme to excite you. See you on the dance floor!”

Christchurch City Council is the Body Festival’s core funder and has helped the event to grow since the first Body Festival in 2002.