Choreography: Shaun James Kelly
Music: Johannes Brahms, Variations
Length: 24 mins
Premiere: Royal New Zealand Ballet , 70 Anniversary Gala Platinum, St James Theatre , Wellington, 13th October 2023
Other Performances:
RNZB and Scottish Ballet 2025
Tutu’s On Tour 2024
Platinum Gala 70th Anniversary RNZB 2023
Commissioned by Royal New Zealand Ballet and Royal New Zealand Ballet Foundation, Harry Haythorne Award Winner 2023.
Choreography: Shaun James Kelly
Music: Mercy, Max Richter
Length: 5 mins
Premiere: Fashion Fantasy Ball at Auckland Art Gallery, 16th March 2024
Photo Credit: “Courtesy of Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki. Photography by David St George and Norrie Montgomery.”
Other Performances:
Tempo Dance Festival 2024
Auckland Art Gallery- Fashion Fantasy Ball 2024
Commissioned by Royal New Zealand Ballet and Auckland Art Gallery, Fashion Fantasy Ball.
Choreography: Shaun James Kelly
Directed: Jeremy Brick
Set/Costume: Max de Roy
Dancers: Medhi Angot and Maddy Graham
Music: ‘Hallelujah’ Written by Virginia Butler Performed by Gin Wigmore Published by Concord Music Publishing New Zealand Ltd Licensed courtesy of Universal Music New Zealand Limited
Length: 4 mins
Filmed: On location at St James Theatre, Wellington September 2022
World Premiere: YouTube May 2024
Commissioned by Cystic Fibrosis NZ
Choreography: Shaun James Kelly
Music: Live Bagpipes Highland Cathedral, Echo by Talisk
Length: 9 mins
Filmed: Te Whare Kawana o Whanganui-a-Tara/Government House Wellington
World Premiere: Ballet Bites Digital Season 2022, Royal New Zealand Ballet,12th-29th May 2022
Other Performances: RNZB RAW, DanceCentre Wellington May/June 2022
Commissioned by Royal New Zealand Ballet with kind support from Te Whare Kawana o Whanganui-a-Tara/Government House Wellington.
Choreography: Shaun James Kelly
Music: J.S. Bach, Reconstructed Violin Concerto in G minor BWV 1056 - III Allegro, II Largo and III Presto , With Remix from Massimo Margaria
Length: 15 mins
World Premiere: Royal New Zealand Ballet as part of the RNZB’s “Choreographic Series” 2019, The Opera House, Wellington, 1st March 2019
Other Performances:
Choreographic Serise 2019
Tutu’s On Tour 2022
Commissioned by Royal New Zealand Ballet
Choreography: Shaun James Kelly
Written and Directed: Breana Rath & Callum Mcsorley
Music: Rocielli Fernando
Length: 6 mins
Filmed: On Location at Wellington Waterfront
World Premiere: January 2023
Commissioned by Breana Rath & Callum Mcsorley through MASSEY UNIVERSITY TE KUNENGA KI PUREHUROA
Choreography: Shaun James Kelly
Music: The Four Seasons, Antonio Vivaldi
Length: 12 mins
World Premiere: Southward Theatre, Paraparumu, New Zealand, 12th November 2021
Commissioned by the New Zealand School of Dance
Choreography & Movement Direction: Shaun James Kelly
Director: Sara Brodie
Music: Stravinsky ‘The Soldier’s Tale’ played by the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra
Length: 1hr 15mins
World Premiere: Performed by dancers of the Royal New Zealand Ballet and music by the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra. Opening in, Kāpiti Coastlands Theatre, 24th of February 2021
Other Performances: Carterton Events Centre 25th February 2021, Upper Hut Expressions Whirinaki & Entertainment Centre 26th February 2021, Christchurch Kames Hay Theatre 11th March 2021, Nelson Theatre Royal 13th March 2021, North Shore 10th June 2021, Manukau 11th June 2021
Collaboration and commissioned by New Zealand Symphony Orchestra and Royal New Zealand Ballet
Choreography: Shaun James Kelly
Music: 'Clair de Lune' from Suite Bergamasque by Claude Debussy,
'Clair de Lune' performed by Martin Jones, courtesy of Nimbus Records (NI7702), www.wyastone.co.nz
Timelapse by Uno Helmersson
Performed by Trondheim Soloists; Mari Samuelsen, Jesper Söderqvist & Gunnar Flagstad
From Album: Nordic Noir
Courtesy of Universal Music
Length: 8 mins
World Premiere: Royal New Zealand Ballet
Other Performances:
Royal Academy of Dance 14+ Gala December 2020
Svendborg BalletTeatre, Svendborg Theatrer, Denmark 2024
Commissioned by Royal New Zealand Ballet
Choreography: Shaun James Kelly
Music: Clair de Lune, Claude Debussy Breathe , Jóhann Jóhannsson Timelapse , Uno Helmersson Nocturne No.2 in E Flat Op.9 No.2 , Frédéric Chopin 847 , Christian Badzura Nocturne No. 20 en Do Dièse Mineur, Op. Posth , Frédéric Chopin/ Philippe
Length: 19 mins
World Premiere: Royal New Zealand Ballet as part of the RNZB’s ‘RAW’. This work was shown to a small intimate audience at the RNZB Dance Centre from the 1st - 4th of July 2020
Commissioned by Royal New Zealand Ballet
Choreography: Shaun James Kelly
Music: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Symphony No. 41 in G Minor, K.550: IV. Finale (Allegro assai), Symphony No. 25 in G Minor, K.183: IV. Allegro, Symphony No. 25 in G Minor, K.183: III. Menuetto, Symphony No. 25 in G Minor, K.183: I. Allegro con
Length: 22 mins
World Premiere: Royal New Zealand Ballet, at Soundings Theatre, Te Papa Wellington in July 2018
Other Performances: Auckland Live, Pick‘n’Mix at Aotea Centre in Auckland and Bruce Mason Centre in Takapuna, New Zealand 2018
Commissioned by Royal New Zealand Ballet Education Department
Choreography: Shaun James Kelly
Premiere: Performed by dancers of the Royal New Zealand Ballet in Auckland ANZ Viaduct Events Centre, August 2017.
Concept and Clothing: Andrea Moore.
Choreography: Shaun James Kelly
Music: Recomposed by Max Richter: Vivaldi, The Four Seasons - Winter 1, 2 and 3
Length: 12 mins
World Premiere: Royal New Zealand Ballet, at St James Theatre Studios, Wellington in November 2016
Winner of the 2016 Harry Haythrone Choreographic Award
Choreography: Shaun James Kelly
Music: Antonio Vivaldi
12 concertos Op.3- “L’estro Armonico”:
II. Largo-Larghetto and III. Allegro
Length: 6 mins
World Premiere: Theatre Royal, Nelson March 2017 as a part of RNZB’s 2017 ‘Tutus on Tour’
Other Performances: New Plymouth, Queenstown, Oamaru, Timaru, Ashburton and Gisborne as part of RNZB Tutus on Tour 2017
Commissioned by Royal New Zealand Ballet
Choreography: Shaun James Kelly
Music: Out of Sight, Out of Mind from “The Heart of Katherine”
Length: 4mins
World Premiere: The Edge Music NZ 2014
Filmed: On Location Wellington 2014
