Dunedin composer Anthony Ritchie cannot wait for the world premiere of his Symphony No 3 in the Dunedin Town Hall tonight, although he will be white-knuckled and on the edge of his seat.
Art imitates life in a crypt tonight. An old sepulchre in St Paul's Cathedral is the unlikely site for a play about serendipity and life.
Dunedin choreographer and film-maker Daniel Belton reaches down in pain and rubs cramp from his calf.
Dhol Foundation founder Johnny Kalsi and his wife, Jaz, will never forget the 2010 Otago Festival of the Arts.
The South Island has been colonised by France and is prosperous, while the English-speaking North Island languishes far behind.
Well Doh! Compelling rhythm, enthusiastic joyful bopping, enough confidence to throw a stick at, lots of smiles - all great - but, give me Samoan or African or Japanese rhythmic polyphony, counter rhythms and patterns, choreography and variety, any day.
What if the North and South Island were two different countries? What if the French had successfully colonised the south? What if there were no Ashburton?
Much has been made, and rightly so, of the endeavours of Dunedin's Leese family, in particular soprano Anna and her brother, medieval singer-composer Matthew. Yet there is another sibling who is...
It could only happen in Dunedin. Opera and bagpipes battled for attention in the Octagon yesterday.
Michael Houstoun and Mike Nock, two giants in the world of piano, join forces to present a recital with a difference at the Otago Festival of the Arts.
The Otago Festival of the Arts brings a range of top talent to town. Sometimes it puts more than one talent in the same room at the same time.
An old instrument of war will provide an explosion of sound in the Regent Theatre tonight.
It starts today. Otago's biggest artistic and cultural showcase bursts into life, after two years of scouring the four corners of the Earth for the best artistic talent available.
"That was amazing," Dhol Foundation founder Johnny Kalsi enthused in the Octagon yesterday.
Demand is starting to outstrip supply for tickets to the 2010 Otago Festival of the Arts.
Juggling is just about the only performance skill Nicholas McBryde hasn't mastered. Although he even has a crack at that every couple of years. "I've always thought organising the festival...
When the Atamira Dance Company performs Taonga: dust, water, wind at the Otago Festival of the Arts next month it will be the spiritual homecoming of this poetic dance work, and a very exciting occasion for Ngai Tahu kuia Rona Potiki (84), who will travel with a large whanau contingent from the Catlins to see the remounting of the dance performance that has been inspired by her early life at Kaka Point.
Johnny Kalsi first heard the dhol when he was 8, and it has captivated him ever since.
Playwright Lynda Chanwai-Earle has never been to Antarctica, but she has set her play Heat in the southern frozen wastes.
Comfort comes in many forms, but the solace and relief we seek from them is not always what they provide, Dunedin jeweller Victoria McIntosh tells Ellie Constantine.