The directors’ cut
As the Dunedin Fringe Festival closes and two other arts festivals loom, their directors peruse each other’s offerings.
Dunedin
Review: Aural, visual immersion
Review: Aural, visual immersion
It seems fitting that my last review for this year’s Fringe Fest was in an almost brand new space —Te Korokoro o the Tui at the University’s School of Performing Arts.
Dance partner half a world away joins stage on final day of festival
Dance partner half a world away joins stage on final day of festival
Being oceans apart during a global pandemic did not stop a New Zealand dancer from performing a duet with adancer in London for this year’s Dunedin Fringe Festival.
Abandoned piano key to exhibition at Artsenta
Abandoned piano key to exhibition at Artsenta
An abandoned musical instrument was the key to a creative art exhibition in this year’s Dunedin Fringe Festival.
Making it up as they go
Making it up as they go
What happens when you get a group of people with varying musical abilities together and simply let them play? That’s the question behind Strork, a Dunedin string orchestra that is anything but traditional.
Fashioning the future
Fashioning the future
Otago Museum’s exhibition ‘‘Fashion FWD - Disruption through Design’’ explores the edges of Dunedin and iD fashion. Fashion writer Katie Day speaks to the team behind this event.
Review: Feelings and felting entertain audience
Feelings and felting entertain audience
The stage is brightly lit and there’s a table with many brightly-coloured tufts of some kind of yarn or fibre.
Exhibition has added dimension
Exhibition has added dimension
A virtual reality art exhibition is transporting people to a psychedelic and colourful world during this year’s Dunedin Fringe Festival.
Exhibition has added dimension
Exhibition has added dimension
A virtual reality art exhibition is transporting people to a psychedelic and colourful world during this year’s Dunedin Fringe Festival.
Only spectacle is guaranteed
Only spectacle is guaranteed
The Dunedin Fringe Festival is officially under way and if you’re looking for something to see, hear, or do this weekend, you’ll be spoiled for choice.
‘Meow’ art show in a cat-egory of its own
‘Meow’ art show in a cat-egory of its own
Subtle aromas of acrylic on canvas, and kitty litter mixed with something only cats can produce — it was not the atmosphere of a traditional art exhibition.
Action a particular highlight of production
Action a particular highlight of production
This is the stuff of young adult novels.
Around in circles like mental health struggle
Around in circles like mental health struggle
A colourful horse cycling around the new Dunedin Hospital site is a sure sign that the Dunedin Fringe Festival 2021 is under way.
Steampunk show now on despite setbacks
Steampunk show now on despite setbacks
After two years of "gut-wrenching" setbacks The Dangerfield and Vladevescu Steampunk Theatre will debut its new show at the Dunedin Fringe Festival 2021 today.
Globe goes back to the future
Globe goes back to the future
Sixty years after The Glass Menagerie was first performed at Dunedin’s Globe Theatre, it is being revisited. Rebecca Fox talks to director Joseph Cecchi and chairman Keith Scott.
Surprises as dance develops
Surprises as dance develops
It has been six years since Matthew and Benedikte Onarheim-Smith danced together professionally, and they'll revisit and reinvigorate a work for the Dunedin Fringe Festival.
Live-streams to boost festival’s ‘fringe factor’
Live-streams to boost festival’s ‘fringe factor’
If New Zealand’s fringe artists are not "fringey" enough this year, Dunedin Fringe Festival goers will for the first time be able to watch selected international performers overseas on the internet.
Creative sector ‘tipping point’
Creative sector ‘tipping point’
The essential nature of the arts has been highlighted during Covid-19 lockdown, but requires funding to aid an "at-risk" creative sector, the Dunedin Fringe Festival says.
Dunedin Fringe Festival cancelled over outbreak
Dunedin Fringe Festival cancelled over outbreak
The Dunedin Fringe Festival has been cancelled following the arrival of the Covid-19 outbreak in Dunedin.
Festival co-ordinator no stranger to events role
Festival co-ordinator no stranger to events role
Dunedin Fringe Festival’s new volunteer co-ordinator loves the ‘‘hustle and bustle’’ of festivals.