The Royal New Zealand Ballet’s Ryman Healthcare season of Hansel & Gretel kicks off with a thoroughly enjoyable evening, writes Jack Yan […]
Royal New Zealand Ballet’s Hansel & Gretel returns, with fun dialled up to 10
October 26, 2023/13.37
Tag: choreography
Gill Saunders wins 2023 World of Wearable Art Supreme Award with Earthling
September 22, 2023/10.45
The 2023 World of Wearable Art Show, Beyond, demonstrates that the new ownership is keen to build on the event’s triumphs, continuing to capture the Zeitgeist with winners from around the world […]
Royal New Zealand Ballet’s Lightscapes shows the power of dance
July 27, 2023/21.33
Inventive and innovative, Lightscapes expands the possibilities of ballet, with raw, energetic emotion, writes Jack Yan […]
The 2023 Tony Awards: who won what
June 12, 2023/12.49
Some Like It Hot only took home a fraction of the awards it had been nominated for, while gongs went for the first time to two non-binary actors […]
H&M collaborates with LA-based Brock Collection for a romantic, voluminous summer
June 24, 2021/14.49
Hennes & Mauritz (H&M) has teamed up with the Los Angeles-based label Brock Collection for its latest collaboration. Romantic, feminine and well crafted, the collection comprises dresses, blouses, tops, denim jeans and denim shorts, as well as a range of accessories including scarves, sunglasses and handbags. Light and summery, the Brock Collection × […]
Royal New Zealand Ballet’s Hansel & Gretel: a family ballet where creativity fires on all cylinders
November 6, 2019/12.23
Nicola Edmonds Stephen A’Court Garth Badger; make-up by Kiekie Stanners Hansel & Gretel, the Royal New Zealand Ballet’s newest production, answers an important question: what can be made when you have every creative firing on all cylinders? Here we have Loughlan Prior (right) with his first full-length ballet, based on the Grimm Brothers’ collected […]
Paris Opéra Ballet wows with two works at the Palais Garnier
November 4, 2019/16.17
Kirstin O’Brien Above, from top: Interior staircase at the Palais Garnier. The Palais Garnier’s façade. The author admiring the beauty of the Golden Room. Below right: The author on the balcony at the Palais Garnier. When one of the world’s most respected ballet companies collaborates with artistic geniuses from the arts, fashion and music creatives, […]
August 17, 2018/11.56
Ross Brown The Royal New Zealand Ballet premièred four new works tonight at the State Opera House, marking 125 years of women’s suffrage in New Zealand, the first country where women won the right to vote. Introduced by artistic director Patricia Barker, who had personal connections with each of the choreographers, the Strength & […]
April 4, 2018/0.02
With a première in Wellington on May 31, and other centres through June and July, the Royal New Zealand Ballet’s Dancing with Mozart features George Balanchine’s Divertimento 15, and Jiří Kylián’s Petite Mort and Sechs Tänze. Corey Baker’s The Last Dance, the first ballet created in Antarctica, will also feature as part of Dancing with […]
The grandest graduation programme yet: New Zealand School of Dance celebrates 50 years
November 24, 2017/12.53
Stephen A’Court Above: Hosanna Ball and Saul Newport. The New Zealand School of Dance has traditionally held a highly regarded graduation programme, and this year’s was the grandest we’ve seen, with the school celebrating its 50th anniversary. Held at the St James Theatre, opening night saw Governor-General HE Dame Patsy Reddy attend, along with […]
