Cheesman, Sue2024-09-022024-09-022022-08-03Cheesman, S. (2022). Fresh moves dance festival. Teachers and Curriculum, 22(1), 57-59. https://doi.org/10.15663/tandc.v22i1.398https://hdl.handle.net/10289/16870Fresh Moves Dance Festival is an independent local initiative held in the Bay of Plenty region of New Zealand. In 2021 Fresh Moves reached a 20-year milestone. Part of a larger research inquiry which chronicles the festival’s journey through the years and seeks to understand how such an initiative has been sustained over time, this article presents a snapshot of the initiative. This snapshot describes some of the history, successes, challenges and plans for future development of this initiative. As a dance educator, observer and member of the expert panel of Fresh Moves Dance Festival, I find the festival provides much food for thought about our own practice and community connections through dance education.enAttribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 Internationalhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/Journal Article10.15663/tandc.v22i1.3982382-0349