Category: Arts & Culture
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 […]
Oliver Hall reviews ATC’s Amadeus, a theatrical beast with plenty of sting in it’s tale. As the curtain rose on the opening night of ATC’s latest offering, you realize how far the company have come since the milestone achievement of making Auckland’s new waterfront theatre their home. Previously using Auckland University’s (now defunct) Maidment Theatre […]
Exploring universal themes of identity, dreams, family, loss and love, Rebels on Pointe will be screening at the Doc Edge International Documentary Film Festival, showcasing the world famous Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo. The notorious all-male, drag ballet, was founded over 40 years ago in New York City on the heels of the Stonewall […]
Adapted from Greg McGee’s iconic locker room play, Foreskin’s Lament, Eleanor Bishop and the talented 16-strong cast of young performers set out to make an impact — and they did exactly that! The piece, based on rugby, challenged the concept of masculinity in 1981 and becomes a metaphor for a society in which old codes […]
World famous artworks have travelled the globe for The Body Laid Bare: Masterpieces from Tate, showcasing at Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki until 16 July. The exhibition on everybody’s lips unpacks the human form in all its glory and complexity, sharing stories of the nude from over the last two centuries. There are over […]