Day: February 20, 2020

What do you get when world-renowned choreographer Angelin Preljocaj collaborates with legendary fashion designer Jean-Paul Gaultier on Ballet Preljocaj’s Snow White? Forget Disney’s fluff, Gautier tells Oliver Hall how he embraced the fairy tale’s dark and sensual side. “Angelin explained his vision of Snow White – that he wanted to follow the fairy tale but […]

Historian Gareth Watkins selects his most significant moments from Aotearoa’s queer history from February’s past. 3 February 1944 Human rights campaigner Sister Paula Brettkelly was born in the United Kingdom. As a child she emigrated with her family to New Zealand, entering the Sisters of St Joseph in 1961. In the mid-1980s Brettkelly read about […]