Highlights

Discover why the great Pina Bausch (1940–2009) inspires such devotion when her legendary company comes to New Zealand for the first time.

Gather the whānau together for an adventure in the bush, at this celebration of light, flight and birdsong from the makers of 2014 Festival hit Power Plant.

To celebrate the Festival’s 30th birthday, we’re building Wellington a fantastical family fairground perfect for anyone young at heart.

A rare chance to experience Monteverdi’s Vespro della Beata Vergine in its entirety. Well established as one of the best European early music groups, Concerto Italiano are renowned for their performances of the work.

An R&B star of “uncompromising power and originality” (Consequence of Sound), D’Angelo was one of the leading lights of the 1990s neo-soul movement.  Twenty years later, his latest release Black Messiah has just been named in Rolling Stone’s Top 5 album’s for 2015.

Enter the world of a surrealist painting, with a heady mix of spectacular acrobatics, theatre, dance and music performed against the monumental Salvador Dalí backdrop that sparked this cirque show.

Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra leader Wynton Marsalis’s third symphonyis a “stunning achievement” (The Arts Desk) that takes you on a journey through jazz history. 

Busting with wit, wonder and weirdness, this was one of The Guardian’s Top 10 theatre shows of 2014. The ever-inventive, multi-talented Kneehigh rework John Gay’s bawdy 18th-century musical satire The Beggar’s Opera.

Featuring 150 musicians from more than 20 countries, this multi-layered world music collaboration brings together the descendants of opposing forces in WWI and reunites them in friendship and musical solidarity.

A daring and darkly humorous exploration of identity in the age of social media from two of dance and theatre’s most unflinching makers.

Grief is “transformed into something brimming with life” (The Quietus) in this concert based around Sufjan Stevens’ latest album, Carrie & Lowell.

In this stunning two-tier staging, downstairs you’ll follow the work, lives and loves of four film-makers over a year in Buenos Aires, while upstairs the films they’re making come to life.