The Dunedin Town Hall was an acoustically ideal venue for yesterday's performance of Requiem For The Fallen - a profound musical commemoration of World War 1, which claimed the lives of more than...
Sustained applause from a good-sized audience in St Paul's celebrated the performance of an exquisite collection of local recent compositions and their overseas influences.
A profound reminiscence about growing up, portrayed through poetry, music and film was presented last evening in the Glenroy Auditorium by Tim Finn, one of this country's notables in the genre of popular music.
The percussion ensemble Strike performs its show Between Zero and One at the Regent Theatre last night, as part of Arts Festival Dunedin.
Debbie Vercoe (55) holds her Arts Festival Dunedin guide and tickets to Requiem for the Fallen before entering the Dunedin Town Hall yesterday.
NICHOLAS McBRYDE Festival director
The collective creative talents of five performers make up "Moving Sound", who brought colour, vibrancy, beautiful music and a touch of new age spirituality to St. Paul's cathedral on Friday evening.
What a striking performance! Right from the opening wall bouncing percussion this performance by Strike of John Psathas' Between Zero and One at the Regent theatre captured the rapport of the large and diverse audience.
A choir of the dead will bring the impossibly unpleasant alive in Requiem for the Fallen in a World War 1 commemoration as part of Arts Festival Dunedin.
BOYD CLARK
One artists (from left) Simon Kaan, Rua McCallum, Nigel Jenkins, Donnine Harrison and Daniel Belton, of Dunedin, in their multi-media installation at Toitu Otago Settlers Museum auditorium, as part of Arts Festival Dunedin.
The Paper Cinema cast members rehearsing Odyssey at Kavanagh Auditorium this week are (from left) movement director Imogen Charleston, artistic director Nicholas Rawlings, musician Hazel Mills, musical director Christopher Reed and musician Katherine Mann, of England.
Actress Harmony Stempel, of New York, tests her tub at the Playhouse Theatre yesterday for her Dunedin premiere of Human Fruit Bowl tonight.
The percussion ensemble Strike will start its show with a ''big bang'' at the Regent Theatre tonight, says sound producer Ollivier Ballester.
There's so much happening on the stage that it's hard to know where to look.
Wafting incense, an organic light show playing above a dimly lit stage, traditional Beijing opera sound and movements and tactile instrumental sounds stunned the full house at the Glenroy Auditorium into silent reverence.
It was a surreal sight ... seeing a young man, in his vintage Silverstream School blazer, white shirt buttoned to the top, hair oiled slick, skin pale. He was like a vampire-school-choirboy.
Actor Michael Hurst relaxes on the set of his solo show No Holds Bard at the Fortune Theatre yesterday.
Visiting Dunedin Chinese Garden yesterday are guqin player Wu Na (left) and opera singer Dong Fei.
Olveston's drawing room strikes a fine balance between being grandly arts and crafts and familial intimacy. As such. it is a splendid venue for a recital of the concert songs of the sort that Sophie Morris chose accompanied by pianist Vivian McLean.
