Daniel Belton is the co-founder and artistic director of Good Company Arts.
12 Facts About Daniel Belton
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Daniel Belton is an Arts Foundation of New Zealand Laureate.
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Daniel Belton's works have been shown in America, Europe, South America, Asia and the Pacific.
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Daniel Belton was educated at Nelson College from 1983 to 1987, and was a prefect in his final year there.
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Daniel Belton then toured overseas as a dancer with the Douglas Wright Dance Company, with his wife and artistic partner, dancer Donnine Harrison.
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Daniel Belton has choreographed a number of acclaimed dance works, including Leaf, Concertina and Soundings.
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Daniel Belton has created a number of experimental filmed dance works, such as Axis: Anatomy of Space, which featured dancers from the Royal New Zealand Ballet, and had its world premiere in the Planetarium of the Otago Museum.
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In 2004 Daniel Belton was based at the University of Otago as the Creative New Zealand choreographic research resident, and in 2008 the media artist in residence at Massey University.
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Also in 2008, Daniel Belton received the prize for "most innovative work" for After Durer at the XV Festival Internazionale di Videodanza, at the Museo Madre, in Naples.
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In 2009, Daniel Belton received the largest choreographic award available in New Zealand, the Creative New Zealand Choreographic Fellowship, worth $65,000.
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Daniel Belton was choreographic fellow of the Arts Council of New Zealand in 2010.
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Daniel Belton was a New Zealand Arts Foundation laureate in 2015.