Day: June 18, 2015

Lithe young bodies leapt, bent arms, swayed, ran swiftly, and lay slack on the stage to draw an enthusiastic Royal New Zealand Ballet audience into the premier Auckland performance of Salute, compiled by the RNZB to honour the soldiers of WW1. Salute’s programme presented four dance works: Dear Horizon, Soldier’s Mass, Salute, and Passchendaele.   This […]

Cuba’s roving modern ballet company achieved a very rare standing ovation at its opening performance in Auckland’s Civic theatre last night. The 19 dancers and 7 members of the accompanying band started their performance gracefully and slowly built up the tempo over the whole 2 hour show to have the audience totally in their hands. […]

For this month’s ‘Meet Our Community’, Levi Joule chats with Max Lin. Max is a 23 year old honours student, studying political studies at The University of Auckland. He blogs about Asian and NZ politics at www.maxwelllin.com What is your blog about? My blog at www.maxwelllin.com is about my experiences living in New Zealand but also a place […]

The gay pride parade to be held in Seoul later this month will now go ahead as planned, South Korea’s gay pride organisers are celebrating after the Seoul Administrative Court overturned the police ban on the pride parade to be held later this month. Police had originally cited ‘safety concerns’ and traffic disruptions as a […]