Tuesday 22 November 2011, 5.15pm for a 5.45pm start

Rona Bailey Room, Te Whaea: National Dance & Drama Centre, 11 Hutchison Road, Newtown, Wellington

Entry by koha. Drinks and nibbles will be served.

Marianne Schultz, a PhD candidate and tutor in the History Department, University of Auckland, will talk about Rona Bailey as a member of the New Dance Group. The New Dance Group played a key role in pioneering modern dance in New Zealand in the 1940s.

We loved dancing at . A proper stage, a proper floor, great lighting system! Helpful staff who went the second mile! Lovely seats, nearly all of them filled by appreciative people! If you think I'm just smarming here, read this: the Expressions staff actually made a cupcake for everyone in the audience.

Following a successful season at the Mahara Art Gallery in Waikanae in May, DOUBLE PORTRAIT: Finding Frances Hodgkins is coming to the New Zealand Portrait Gallery, Shed 11, Wellington Waterfront.

Crows Feet Dance Collective is an all-women contemporary dance group based in Wellington, New Zealand. Beyond those bare facts, we are a bundle of paradoxes.

• Members are 35 to 67 years old.
• Some are super dancers and some … well, not so experienced.
• We include 6 dancing grandmothers.
• Most of us have full-time jobs — yet we perform a new work in public at least once a year.

Jan Bolwell's choreography makes the most of our talents, and we have many admirers.