Good Company Arts (GCA) received the Best Art Music Video Award for its dance production of Taiao (Poipoi), and Best Dance Music Video Award for its production of Tiger (Silver Lotus).
GCA producer Donnine Harrison said it was a "stellar day" for the dance company.
"The GCA team is thrilled.
"This new work, Tiger (Silver Lotus), has only just been released and is already winning awards internationally.
"We have loved making this new work, which is really playful and high-energy dance with exuberant music."
It was the first time the company had commissioned Los Angeles-based jazz composer Mark de Clive-Lowe to work with GCA director Daniel Belton on new music and dance choreography, she said.
The fast-paced and fluid solo dance film features dancer Airu Matsuda — a recent graduate of the New Zealand School of Dance.
It was created to open the Lunar New Year Festival in Wellington and celebrate the incoming Year of the Tiger.
Harrison said Tiger embodied spirit and the drive to achieve and make progress.
A high-energy opus, it bridged the past with the present for positive change in the world.
The Taiao project brought together Maori, Chinese and Tibetan cultures for a dance film series, created to be a "digital prayer" for Mother Earth — Papatuanuku.
The new dance film concentrated on a captivating performance by Xiao Ke, who performed a female embodiment of enlightened energy; a dakini, a "sky dancer" or "she who traverses the sky".
The sounds on the video were created by electronic composer Zhou Zi Han.
Since winning the awards, the dance music videos had also been selected for the Rome Music Video Awards, the Emerald Peacock International Film Festival in St Petersburg and the Phoenix International Short Film Festival in the United States, Harrison said.
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