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Michael Parmenter has been a significant player in the New Zealand dance scene for over three decades, creating some of the most challenging and exciting theatrical works ever presented. Parmenter’s name is synonymous with bold and innovative contemporary dance in New Zealand. His first major production was Between Two Fires (1983), a portrait of the […]
Nick Fager is a LGBT+ psychotherapist practicing in New York plus the coordinator for LGBT+ services at the Kull Initiative for Psychotherapy (KIP) in Manhattan’s upper west side. He also runs a support group for gay men struggling with dating app addictions called Grindr’ed Down, a KIP-based therapy group specifically tailored to gay men seeking intimacy beyond apps and […]
Ahead of his upcoming performance in Pushing Boundaries, express sat down with Steven Logan, Principal Timpanist of the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra, which brings us The Rite of Spring — the centrepiece of the series, Rulebreakers. How did you choose what instrument you wanted to play? I’ve always thought of the timpani and percussion section as the […]
express talks to Nat Hugill — burlesque artist, drag king, actress, director and producer — ahead of her performance at the 2017 Hollywood Burlesque Festival. How long have you been performing as both your burlesque and drag king personas? Lilly Loca had her first stage debut in May 2009 at Miss La Vida’s Burly-Q Revue. […]
We chat with 23-year-old rising star, singer songwriter Alex de Vries, who last month, released his track Take Me For A Ride in a video featuring two male lovers. We love your video for Take Me For A Ride. What was your thought process in bringing it into creation? I just wanted to show something […]
We speak with acclaimed playwright, scriptwriter and journalist Victor Rodger about F.C.C, the theatre movement he’s leading, his upbringing plus his latest endeavours. What was your aspiration behind creating the F.C.C theatre movement? F.C.C stands for the Flow of energy, Creating platforms largely for Pasefika practitioners, and Connecting emerging practitioners with seasoned veterans. F.C.C has produced […]
BOYS, adapted from Greg McGee’s Foreskin’s Lament, is our state of the nation play about masculinity. Using contemporary material ranging from the Chiefs ‘stripper scandal’ to Wellington College’s recent online incident, award-winning theatre-makers Eleanor Bishop and Julia Croft and a group of sixteen young people from Auckland take New Zealand’s iconic locker room play and ask “what […]
For most, she is relatively unknown, but 24-year-old Courtney Perham, a young Kiwi designer, has a bright future ahead of her and she’s breaking all the gender norms to get there. express sat down with Perham to talk about her inspirations behind creating her own line and what it means to her to be breaking […]