Hagley Dance Hub

Introducing - Hagley Dance Hub

A SPACE WHERE MOVEMENT CULTURES CONVERGE

An inquiry-driven, practice-led programme situating Dance as an embodied, creative, and critically reflexive discipline.

✅️ a NEW 20hrs per week Dance & Movement course

✅️ location: Te Puna Wai o Waipapa - Hagley College, Ōtautahi, Christchurch, South Island, New Zealand

✅️ Have a Go: Monday 10th August, 1-3pm or 3-5pm https://www.hagley.school.nz/enrolment/keen-on-hagley-taster-day/

Course Structure
▶️ Indigenous approaches to embodied practice
▶️ European approaches to technical training
▶️ Intercultural and hybrid movement inquiry
▶️ Choreographic development and performance

Hagley Dance Hub is a new full-time programme where students engage in technical training alongside choreographic inquiry, developing kinaesthetic awareness, alignment, and adaptability across diverse movement practices.

Our Approach
✅️ Grounded in global dance research, the programme draws on somatic approaches and intercultural perspectives.
✅️ Dance is positioned as both artistic expression and cultural dialogue.

Through studio-based exploration, improvisation, and collaborative creation, students:
▶️ Refine their creative voice
▶️ Develop critical thinking
▶️ Engage in embodied practice

Students will:
✅️ Engage with guest artists and cultural practitioners
✅️ Create original choreographic work
✅️ Participate in workshops and community practice
✅️ Build pathways to tertiary study and careers

Future Pathways
Hagley Dance Hub offers a strong pathway into tertiary study and creative industries. Students graduate with technical, intellectual and artistic confidence to thrive across a wide range of dance and movement contexts.

Contact: [email protected]

Your invited to the Te Puna Wai o Waipapa - Hagley College Senior Information Evening TONIGHT!! (Thurs 9th Oct, 5-7pm) at the Auripo Auditorium.

Come find out more about Hagley Dance Project, and discuss course options with College staff. It is an Expo format, which gives students and whānau the opportunity to find out about the wide range of courses Hagley offers.

There will be information available on every aspect of teaching and learning for Year 11s, 12s, 13s and Adult students. This includes 'regular' daytime classes, specialist classes, and After 3 evening classes.

Senior College enrolments are now open for adolescent and adult students who wish to study with us for Year 12, Year 13 or in pre-professional programmes for 2026. Check out https://www.hagley.school.nz/senior-college-enrolment-26/ for more information and to submit an application online.

After 3 enrolments are also open - check them out here: https://www.hagley.school.nz/after3-enrolment-2026/.

Come along on tomorrow to find out more! We would love to see you!