Name: Wuthering Heights 2026 Kate Bush dance day
Start: 2026-07-25T02:00:00+12:00
Location: The Octagon, Dunedin

Wuthering Heights 2026 Kate Bush dance day

KATE BUSH DANCE EVENT 2026
The Most Wuthering Heights Day Ever is an event held at locations around the world where participants recreate the music video for musician Kate Bush's 1978 song Wuthering Heights.
Our Wuthermothers, Shambush, the British performance group who founded the Wuthering as a mass public event called The Ultimate Kate Bush Experience in Brighton, UK, in 2013
Samantha Wareing in Berlin is the creator of ‘The Most
Wuthering Heights Day Ever’ name in 2016, and as facilitator of the global organisation collective that runs the international events.
This year the date is set for July the 26th ....
Dunedin is doing it and you are invited!
All you need is a red dress and some moves. Check out you tube and google flash mob Wuthering heights for inspiration.
A HeartCore Event
set to activate the Octagon on a regular basis with Music, performance and cultural events!
No need to register - just turn up!
Don't know the dance?
You can follow along!
All ages and genders welcome 🙂
High Noon dance off
This is an accessible event with modified moves for all levels of participation
We hope to gather the most Kates ever, again, and re-create the Wuthering Heights experience en masse.
NOTE: this is a free event, no registration necessary
Our VENUE is the Octagon. The heart of Ōtepoti city.
PRACTISE with this mirrored version - to help all the Kate's practice along at home before the big day 🙂

For the more dedicated Kates, a detailed tutorial from CAT COMPLEX is here:

OUTFIT - anything goes, as long as it's red!
Prefer the white dress version? No problem, we won't turn you away 😉
ON THE DAY there will be several rehearsals before the 'final wuther'.
This is a FREE community event run by volunteers and without sponsorship. As we do every year, we will be collecting donations for WEKA
Wellness, Empathy and Kindness Aotearoa
DISCLAIMER: Please note, this is a fairly casual, community, flashmob type event, and you are responsible for yourself and your property. There will likely be people photographing and videoing parts of the event and your attendance is your agreement to be filmed.