Dunedin Fringe Festival

    Putting ideas into motion

    The challenges of being a first-year student at university forms part of theme of Motion Sickness...
    The challenges of being a first-year student at university forms part of theme of Motion Sickness, choreographed and co-directed by Maddison Gay (centre right), performed by Dunedin dancers and co-directed by Charlie Butler (centre left). Photos: Peter McIntosh
    Dunedin dancers Charlie Butler and Maddison Gay have created their first dance show for this year’s Dunedin Fringe Festival.

    Know your enemy

    A scene from the Wellington season of No No No at Bats Theatre. Photo: supplied
    A scene from the Wellington season of No No No at Bats Theatre. Photo: supplied
    Former Dunedin student Ella Yiannoutsos is tackling one of the big issues of our time - artificial intelligence (AI)  - in her latest work No No No, which is coming to Dunedin’s Fringe Festival. 

    Rebecca Fox discovers the personal story behind the big issue.

    Triggers & tingles

    Letitia Lickkit, aka Amy Atkins, of Wellington, who is debuting her Autonomous Sensory Meridian...
    Letitia Lickkit, aka Amy Atkins, of Wellington, who is debuting her Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response (ASMR) show ASMR Hour at the Dunedin Fringe Festival in March, is believed to be the only live-performance ASMRtist currently touring anywhere worldwide. Photo: supplied
    Kiwi artist Amy Atkins, aka Letitia Lickkit, is bringing her take on Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response to the South. Bruce Munro asks Atkins and film-maker Tom Levesque what the ASMR global phenomenon is all about - calming tingles or something deeper and maybe darker?