Category: Arts & Culture
She’s one of the best ballet dancers in the world. So is he. Together, they are a Russian power couple – both having met while dancing Giselle and her probably being the one to have been able to bring him back into the folds of the Royal Ballet. He’s the bad boy, she’s the poster […]
Rice is all about the struggle. Heavy, belaboured movements that are punctuated with audible breaths and stomps play a large role in the 70-minute dance about the life cycle of rice. In a sense, the dance is a tribute to the farmers who do the backbreaking work to produce the staple of a Chinese diet, […]
The Wellington Pride Festival is the capital’s annual celebration of LGBT+ (queer and transgender) identities, and the 2017 festival is going to be the biggest in 25 years! It is a key time of celebration for this diverse community – but some stories are still not being told. Takatāpui – LGBT+ Māori identity – is […]
In Nina George’s Little Paris Bookshop, a French bookseller believes “ a book is both medic and medicine at once, diagnosing as well as offering therapy.” On that metaphor, listening to the 20+ writers featured in the 2017 samesame but different queer writing festival was definitely a diagnosing – and therapeutic—experience. In his welcome to […]
Prudes and people with weak constitutions should not come to this. Though, let’s be honest, the fact that all the publicity material comments on how it’s “delicious, deviant and delirious” should be enough to deter those who prefer their acts tame and fully-clothed. La Soirée is a variety circus-burlesque-cabaret show, which basically means you take […]
Most of the subjects’ faces are hidden or concealed, but it does not detract from new documentary Mr Gay Syria‘s significance in telling an LGBT+ story we do not hear enough. Focusing on two men, Hussein and Mahmoud, gay men who have fled from their homeland Syria to Turkey, Mr Gay Syria follows the establishment of the […]
Tegan and Sara have cancelled their only New Zealand show at the Bruce Mason Theatre in Auckland this Saturday 11 March. Unfortunately, Tegan has fallen ill and lost her voice at the end of the duo’s European tour. The Australian tour has also been postponed as a result. Tegan says (on behalf of the duo), […]
The 2017 New Zealand ballet season begins with an unprecedented showcase; for the first time, The Royal New Zealand Ballet will showcase two historic works from the renowned French choreographer, Roland Petit. One of the standout choreographers of the 20th and 21st centuries, Petit is known for his unique adaptations and distinctive theatrical ballet choreographies. […]