{"id":728,"date":"2015-06-18T01:38:58","date_gmt":"2015-06-18T01:38:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valdeakindance.org.nz\/?page_id=728"},"modified":"2026-09-01T00:04:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T00:04:13","slug":"current","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/valdeakindance.org.nz\/?page_id=728","title":{"rendered":"Current"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fleur de Thier Workshop was held on Saturday, 16 May and was a great opportunity for New Plymouth based dancers to connect with and learn from this fabulous Christchurch based teacher and choreographer.  Fleur also created a new work for the Val Deakin Dance Theatre while she was in New Plymouth.  Entitled <strong>Ka Pai<\/strong>, the work is a look at Kiwiana and life in New Zealand \u2013 a fitting piece for the Dance Theatre\u2019s coming show <strong>As Kiwi As<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>After a fabulously successful season of 14 sold out house of Giraffes Can\u2019t Dance at the Dance Centre in August 2025, a repeat season was held in March 2026. These 4 performances were also sold out, and were enjoyed by cast and audience alike.<\/p>\n<p>The Dance Theatre was invited to perform in the TAFT Winterfest programme SHE MOVES at the Theatre Royal in New Plymouth in June 2026.  This wonderful programme combined the efforts of several dance groups in New Plymouth to showcase the wonderful range of talent in the dance field in this area.  Two sections of Val Deakin\u2019s Steps in Time were presented by the Dance Theatre, as well as sections from Fleur de Thier\u2019s work Take a Seat.  A great reception for all the works!<\/p>\n<p>You can Donate now to assist the work of the Dance Theatre.  See details on the <a href=\"http:\/\/valdeakindance.org.nz\/?page_id=4\">Contact Page<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fleur de Thier Workshop was held on Saturday, 16 May and was a great opportunity for New Plymouth based dancers to connect with and learn from this fabulous Christchurch based teacher and choreographer. Fleur also created a new work for the Val Deakin Dance Theatre&hellip; <\/p>\n<div class=\"button right\"><a class=\"button more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/valdeakindance.org.nz\/?page_id=728\">Continue Reading &raquo;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"wide-page.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-728","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valdeakindance.org.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valdeakindance.org.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valdeakindance.org.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valdeakindance.org.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valdeakindance.org.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=728"}],"version-history":[{"count":39,"href":"https:\/\/valdeakindance.org.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1063,"href":"https:\/\/valdeakindance.org.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/728\/revisions\/1063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valdeakindance.org.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}