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Daniel Belton
Daniel Belton
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For he's a jolly good...

Well done to Dunedin dance film-maker Daniel Belton, who has been awarded the 2009 Creative New Zealand Choreographic Fellowship This column is a longtime supporter of Belton and his amazing Good Company dance films.

The $65,000 fellowship is the largest choreographic award in New Zealand and will allow Belton to research and develop new work.

He was thrilled at the news.

"This is a wonderful opportunity for me. The fellowship will enable me to focus on innovative new choreography for the screen in an exciting fusion of dance and visual arts with science. I look forward to sharing the results of the new work which will come from it."

'Streetcar' on the road

The Fortune Theatre production of A Streetcar Named Desire has been invited to take a bow on the international stage.

The Fortune has accepted an invitation to take the play to the September 24-27 Provincetown Tennessee Williams Theatre Festival in Massachusetts, United States.

It is the first time in nearly two decades that a New Zealand theatre has been invited to take its work overseas.

More than 2500 Dunedin theatregoers saw A Streetcar Named Desire at the Fortune in May and June last year.

Dead remembered

Otago's glorious dead are remembered in a moving exhibition from Belgium at the Otago Settlers Museum.

"Passchendaele: The Belgians Have Not Forgotten" was developed by the Memorial Museum Passchendaele 1917 and has been brought to Dunedin by the Belgium Government as a mark of deep respect for the southern New Zealanders who gave so much for the European nation during World War 1.

Of the 2700 New Zealand casualties on October 12, 1917, during the first battle of Passchendaele, 800 were from Otago.

"Passchendaele: The Belgians Have Not Forgotten" is on at the Otago Settlers Museum until July 5.
Admission is free.

Art not rubbish

Where there's muck, there's art, they say, or something like that.

To prove the point, Keep Dunedin Beautiful is promoting the Cadbury Recyclia competition as part of Cadbury Chocolate Carnival week (July 13-16) this year.

Children and teenagers are encouraged to create a work of art - sculpture or wall hanging - by using only material that is recyclable or reusable.

The works will be exhibited in the Community Gallery during chocolate week.

Entry forms are available from Dunedin City Council Customer Services, Civic Centre Building, 50 The Octagon.

Anniversary concert

The Dunedin Star Singers has a 10th anniversary concert in Maori Hill this weekend.

The concert will feature guest artists Sunny Side Up and the Tree Altos in an afternoon of African and America gospel and world music.

The Dunedin Star Singers was formed in 2000 by gospel composer Tony Backhouse.

The musical director for the concert is Carole Randall and the accompanist Edith Martin.

The Dunedin Star Singers' 10th anniversary concert is at 2pm on Sunday in the Maori Hill Presbyterian Church.

Top post for dancer

One of New Zealand's foremost contemporary dance practitioners has been appointed artistic director of Dancenorth, Australia's fastest-growing dance company.

Oamaru-born Raewyn Hill will take up the appointment in January after finishing her time as artist in residence at the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts and a residency in Paris.

Hill is a graduate of the New Zealand School of Dance, and has appeared as a guest teacher and choreographer for the Royal New Zealand Ballet, Footnote Dance Company and the Beijing Dance Academy.

Morshuis works on show

Mosgiel artist Justin Morshuis is one of four Dunedin artists whose work will be on show at the Community Gallery in Dunedin from June 22 to June 28.

Morshuis, a merit winner in the 2000 and 2001 Cleveland Art Awards, will display works alongside those of three other Otago artists: Mike Bowden, Jack Monaghan and Peter Gregory.

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