Episode Details

Dance company Black Grace has just returned from a US tour where thousands of people watched their latest work, Paradise Rumour. The company performed in Portland, Laguna Beach and Chicago.  Black Grace has become one of Aotearoa’s most internationally successful performance groups. The company have been touring in the US regularly since a sold-out season at Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival in 2004, and have made it to Europe, Japan, South Korea, Mexico, Australia, and New Caledonia.     For founder, artistic director and chief executive Neil Ieremia international touring has become a matter of survival. He says a month-long tour overseas is what financially enables Black Grace to tour back in New Zealand. The company has survived for a remarkable 29 years.