The bit on the stage is easy: setting up's hard
The bit on the stage is easy: setting up's hard
The stage bit is easy.
David Loughrey
Bright and bouncy
Bright and bouncy
The audience will affect the performance.
Cryptic trips inside dark soundscape
Cryptic trips inside dark soundscape
There was a tiny blue light over to the left of the stage that moved unexpectedly.
Steps in dark play tricks on perception
Steps in dark play tricks on perception
Dancer Leah Carrell has developed tactics to get through Dark Matter without incident.
Evolving show born of personal experience
Evolving show born of personal experience
There is a certain tightly focused zeal in actor Rob Mokaraka's delivery as he talks about his show Shot Bro: Confessions of a Depressed Bullet. That is not really a surprise.
Dance troupe ages with grace and suppleness
Dance troupe ages with grace and suppleness
A Christchurch dance company is proving advancing years shall not stop the movement.
How I detest the arts and their constant ability to cause me to actually feel things
How I detest the arts and their constant ability to cause me to actually feel things
I hate the arts. You have to go somewhere, sit still, concentrate, be quiet, writes David Loughrey.
Concept well suited to its reverential venue
Concept well suited to its reverential venue
St Paul's Cathedral requires a certain serious and respectful demeanour from the visitor, not being the sort of place to foster rough, loud or boisterous behaviour.
Shot in Japan, Dunedin flavour
Shot in Japan, Dunedin flavour
In a bamboo forest, on an ancient monolith, drifting in front of stone buildings followed by phantoms of light, Japanese dancer Meri Otoshi performs on a continuous video loop at the Toitu Otago Settlers Museum.
12 months of painting with intent pays off
12 months of painting with intent pays off
With almost all her works sold as the exhibition she is part of opens, Oamaru artist Gemma Campbell says the first showing of her work is "really special’’.
Quiet contemplation has place
Quiet contemplation has place
It is easy to think of the hectic 10-day arts spree that is the Arts Festival Dunedin as an unrestrained bout of spectacle, with glamorous, beautiful actors and performers sweeping imperiously across stages.
Riders hurt in Three Mile Hill crash
Motorcyclists hurt in Three Mile Hill crash
Three Mile Hill Rd is open again after a motorcycle crash earlier today.
Muse story comes to life
Muse story comes to life
A globe-trotting one-woman play taking the story of Gustav Klimt’s fashion designer partner from Vienna to New York and London is stopping over in Dunedin.
Strange slices of life begin to emerge
Strange slices of life begin to emerge
Arts Festival Dunedin is under way.
Anglicans set to quit Selwyn
Anglicans set to quit Selwyn
Dunedin's Selwyn College intends ending 125 years of Anglican ownership after the church voted to allow the sale of the buildings and business.
A few hiccups, but the show(s) must go on
A few hiccups, but the show(s) must go on
Dunedin's two-yearly arts festival is ready and raring to take to the stage today after problems with everything from finding venues to finding missing paint were resolved.
Wildlife hospital beneficiary of city-made nature film
Wildlife hospital beneficiary of city-made nature film
The New Zealand premiere next week of a Dunedin-produced show on orphaned orangutans is set to raise funds for the Dunedin Wildlife Hospital, which may itself soon be the subject of a television series.
Call to reform local govt voting system
Call to reform local govt voting system
It's 125 years today since NZ women won the right to vote. A Dunedin academic is calling for changes in local government voting to increase the number of women councillors.
Galleries buy a Walters work
Galleries buy a Walters work
The Dunedin Public Art Gallery has obtained a landmark early work by significant New Zealand modernist artist Gordon Walters.
'Army' of helpers gives children fun day
'Army' of helpers gives children fun day
Dunedin secondary school pupils got a taste of the Special Olympics yesterday.