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Brigitte Knight (The Friday Company)

Brigitte Knight is an experienced and innovative choreographer, dance educator with the Royal New Zealand Ballet and dance adjudicator.
She has created work for Maori TV, Coca Cola Christmas in the Park, New Zealand Fashion Week, Dionysus Music Theatre, Paper Plane Factory, RWC 2011, Tempo Festival, The Body Festival, En Route, Hagley Park Millenium Celebrations, Aotea Diwali Festival, University of Auckland Diwali Festival, Te Manu Aute, The Radio Network, Boogie Nites, NZ One Act Play Festival and many more. Brigitte was the director of her own dance school for ten years, before relocating to Auckland and creating freelance work. She adjudicates across New Zealand and has created an extensive selection of dance for stage, competitions, dance schools and film. Brigitte is a fully registered, Experienced Secondary Teacher, and the author of two of the Royal New Zealand Ballet’s NCEA resources. She has guested, tutored and choreographed for many of Auckland’s leading dance education providers, including Okareka Dance Company Summer School, AUT Dance, Carter Chan Dance Performance Centre, Auckland Academy of Dance, Auckland West Dance Academy and Corelli School of the Arts. She has recently completed her Masters degree in dance education, with a focus on the value of original choreography, which she achieved with First Class Honours. Brigitte is the Artistic Director of The Friday Company, dance reviewer at What’s Good, senior ballet tutor at AWDA and TIC Dance at Ormiston Senior College.

Heidi Chen
Stevie Barker

The Friday Company – Heidi Chen & Stevie Barker

Aakrithi Kumar & Sneha Dudaki (Dynamic Duo)

Opposites attract and The Dynamic Duo are the epitome of exactly that. You can feel Aakrithi’s bubbly personality ricocheting on stage, while Sneha’s graceful delivery will keep you at bay. Don’t be fooled by what you see on stage though; Aakrithi is as feisty as she is bubbly and Sneha has as many pranks as she has moves.

The pair first met in high school and bonded over their love for Bollywood dance.

Their passion for dance transcended over the years through individual and collaborative dance performances. Currently the two are working on their YouTube channel that focuses on showcasing the various faces of Bollywood.

Aakrithi’s interest lies in hip-hop and Bollywood fusion whilst Sneha prefers Indian classical, Bollywood fusion and Indian regional dance styles.

Being self-taught in dance, Short+Sweet is an excellent platform for the duo to take their ideas and choreography to the next level.
A warm thank you to Tarannum, Shubhai, Aspen & Sinelle.

Aakrithi Kumar
Sneha Dudaki
Kathie Bahad

Bring Me To Life – Evanescence
Cascades – Ryan Teague
Jag Soona Soona Lage – Om Shanti Om

Seren Powell-Jones

Mixing movement, text and confrontation to create a niche that works only for her. Seren is currently at the University of Auckland, continuing into post-graduate studies with her honors year. She is seeking to find answers about sustainable careers for female choreographers in New Zealand. Choreographing, stage managing, writing, blogging and dealing with all that comes her way at the age of 21.

Tokelau Akama
Lizzy Hagan
Deborah Fletcher
Sophie Henderson