• Stories told through dance
Dance tells stories of queer love at Dunedin's Playhouse
Theatre this weekend, in Dances About Love. The work
has been developed by three choreographers, Hahna Briggs,
Lisa Wilkinson and Brendan Kydd, who studied dance together
at the University of Otago School of Physical Education and
have now formed Pretty Gay Productions.
The choreographers draw on personal experience, diary
excerpts and the online comic blog of a New Zealand
transgender man to explore a range of real-life love stories.
It runs on Saturday and Sunday, tickets available from
dashtickets.co.nz and Quest on George St.
• That blind woman judging art
The judging of one category in this year's Art South annual
exhibition and TrustPower Art Awards will be a little
different.
"That blind woman" Julie Woods has been selected as the
mystery judge for the "Art to die for" section in this year's
awards in Balclutha.
"Even I was a little taken aback when they asked me," said
Julie. "But like everything I do, I'll be doing it with my
eyes closed."
Ms Woods' artist husband, Ron Esplin, will judge the main
awards, which will be presented at the Creative Arts Centre
on Tuesday, November 15 at 7.30pm.
The exhibition runs until Sunday November 20.
• String section explored
The NZSO's final Soloists Series concert explores the string
section through music by Paganini, Tchaikovsky and Rossini.
The concert also features NZSO principal double bass player
Hiroshi Ikematsu, who teams up with Russian violinist Ilya
Kaler in Bottesini's Grand Duo Concertant.
"Bottesini was widely acclaimed as the 'Paganini of the
double bass' at that time," Hiroshi says.
The NZSO String Ensemble, including 24 orchestra players and
featuring Kaler performs in Dunedin on November 23, at Otago
Boys High School. A free pre-concert talk takes place 45
minutes before the performance.
• Rare Byrds headline concert
Medieval music exponents the Rare Byrds headline a
Yellow-eyed Penguin Trust fundraiser and seasonal celebration
at Portobello on November 26.
The Tidings of Comfort and Joy Medieval Christmas Concert and
Feast will also feature fire dancers and dancing.
The feasting and merriment is on November 26, from 6pm.
For more information email ignatius@dunedinblog.co.nz.
• Contemporary jewellery
Eight contemporary jewellers from the Dunedin School of Art
are exhibiting their work at Glue Gallery, Stafford St,
Dunedin.
They explore the boundaries around and expectations of body
adornment through the role of jewellery.
The exhibition runs from today until Sunday. The gallery is
open from midday to 6pm daily.
Sharing the space at Glue is Lucy Fulford's exhibition "For
the Love of Waste", which runs from tomorrow until November
20.
Fulford's work shows photography moving from 2-D to 3-D.
She has collected items of rubbish, scanned them, printed the
images, then constructed a 3-D form.
The exhibition not only critiques the medium of photography,
but also notions of the invaluable and disposable.
• Public lecture today
A symposium looking at the intersections between art,
literature and performance includes a public lecture at the
Dunedin Public Art Gallery today at 3.30pm by Prof Gerald
Janecek, on Moscow conceptualist performance art group
Collective Actions.
Other symposium sessions today and tomorrow at the
university, organised by the University of Otago's Russian
and English departments, are also open to the public.
They include discussions of poet James K. Baxter, Russian
visual art and multimedia performance.
• NZ Chamber Choir visit
Fresh from the World Choral Symposium in Patagonia, Voices
New Zealand Chamber Choir performs Voices of Aotearoa
in Dunedin later this month in the final concert of Chamber
Music New Zealand's 2011 Kaleidoscopes season.
The show is at Knox Church, Dunedin, on Thursday, November 24
at 7.30pm.
Led by artistic director Dr Karen Grylls, the choir's concert
begins with the call of a conch shell, the strains of
Hildegard von Bingen and medieval organum intertwined with
traditional Maori, Samoan, and Taiwanese chant.
Also on the programme are David Childs' Salve Regina,
Danish-American composer Lauridsen's Fire Songs, Helen
Fisher's Pounamu, with its Maori flute accompaniment,
and the New Zealand premiere of David Hamilton's Karakia
of the Stars.
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