Category: Arts & Culture
In VICELAND’s new series Twiz & Tuck, we tag along as two best friends snake their way from New York to California. Along the route, Twiz, who is gender fluid, and Tuck, a trans man who is soon to be married, stop in the cities that have shaped them, as well as some towns they’ve never seen. They visit family and drop in on former […]
Arts Laureate Award Winner, Briar Grace Smith, brings her award-winning play, When Sun & Moon Collide to life at the ASB Waterfront Theatre this month. Directed by profound Kiwi actor, Rawiri Paratene, and performed by Auckland Theatre Company, the play explores how identity, isolation and abandonment can shape our life experience. express sat down with […]
Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra in association with The Trusts Community Foundation Opera in Concert present Puccini’s Manon Lescaut in concert for one night only! Manon Lescaut is the story of a beautiful young woman (played by Italian soprano, Serena Farnocchia), who is torn between a life of material luxury and settling for true love. The story […]
When 29-year-old Year of Dragon Xin Ji, born in Lan Zhou China, discovered dancing at just eight years old, he knew he’d found his passion for life. This June, Auckland audiences will get to experience this masterful dancer at The New Zealand Dance Company showcase of Kiss The Sky during the Matariki Festival. After being […]
Bold Theatre, Fresh Dance, Mana Māori, Mana Pasifika – Kia Mau Festival Returns! New Zealand’s only contemporary indigenous theatre and dance festival, Kia Mau Festival, will return to Wellington from Friday 2 – Saturday 24 June. A heart-warming cultural celebration, led by Wellington’s own Māori and Pasifika theatre and dance companies, the Festival provides […]
The Royal New Zealand Ballet presents their 2nd 2017’s production Three By Ekman, which consisted of 3 very different, well-choreographed pieces by Swedish Choreographer, Alexander Ekman. It is a very contemporary, New York-style exhilarating piece, which is an improvised version of many different dance forms. The whole 1 hour and 45 minute show included a […]
Oliver Hall checked out the first week of the Flick Electric powered NZ International Comedy Festival and below are some of his highlights Rose Matafeo: Rose Matafeo’s Sassy Best Friend was a comedy masterclass. Matafeo lost the theatrics of her last show, 2016’s Finally Dead (which involved a flashy funeral parlour-themed set and […]
VICE has just launched Zealandia, a New Zealand-focused online documentary series described as “looking beyond the stereotypical pillars of the New Zealand identity to present an honest view of the country”. In the first episode, FAFSWAG: Auckland’s Underground Vogue Scene, VICE spent a week with some of the breakout stars of the LGBT+ Pacific Arts Collective […]