Douglas Wright was a New Zealander choreographer, born in 1956 in Tuakau, who died in 2018.
Biography
Douglas James Wright (14 October 1956 – 14 November 2018) was a New Zealand dancer and choreographer in the New Zealand arts establishment from 1980 until his death in 2018. Although he announced his retirement from dance in 2008, on the occasion of the publication of his first book of poetry, Laughing Mirror he subsequently continued to make dance works, including touring The Kiss Inside during April 2015.
Contemporaries
Chris Jannides
New Zealand dancer
Mika X
New Zealand performing artist and director
Shona McCullagh
New Zealand choreographer, dancer and artistic director
Jan Bolwell
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Gaylene Sciascia
New Zealand choreographer and dance educator
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