Giselle, a Royal New Zealand Ballet favourite, returns for May–June 2021
Giselle is back: the Royal New Zealand Ballet’s acclaimed ballet from 2012, which toured the world after its première in Wellington, and which became a 2013 feature film by Toa Fraser, will return in May and June 2021. Conceived by former RNZB artistic director Ethan Stiefel and choreographer–director Johan Kobborg, Giselle was praised by […]
A welcome return to the ballet, with RNZB’s The Sleeping Beauty
Stephen a’Court Top: Kate Kadow as Princess Aurora in The Sleeping Beauty. Above: Kate Kadow and Laurynas Vejalis as Prince Désiré. Kirby Selchow as Carabosse and Sara Garbowski as the Lilac Fairy. Kirby Selchow. Kirby Selchow and Clytie Campbell as the Queen. How fortunate we are in Aotearoa New Zealand to be able to attend […]
Banana Republic’s spring 2020 campaign honours Black History Month
Banana Republic’s spring 2020 campaign celebrates the US’s Black History Month, featuring the work of photographers Koto Bolofo, Melodie McDaniel and Campbell Addy. In particular, it has released two short films featuring dancer and director Jon Boogz and poet and spoken-word artist Chinaka Hodge. The films, directed by Banana Republic’s in-house creative director Len Peltier, […]
Hollywood celebrates Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics at Gold Meets Golden
Hollywood has long been inspired by the sports industry and vice versa, but rarely do these two worlds have the chance to mix and mingle. Los Angeles welcomed many of the world’s greatest athletes to celebrate during one of the year’s most golden weekends. The seventh anniversary Gold Meets Golden event, on Saturday, January […]
Royal New Zealand Ballet’s Hansel & Gretel: a family ballet where creativity fires on all cylinders
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
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, […]
Fabletics, Maddie Ziegler announce activewear collaboration
Fabletics, co-founded by actress Kate Hudson with Adam Goldenberg and Don Ressler, has announced a collaboration with dancer and actress Maddie Ziegler, on a just-launched activewear collection. It is the first time Ziegler has collaborated on an activewear collection. The limited-edition Maggie Ziegler ♥ Fabletics capsule collection comrpises seven outfits, with sports’ bras, tops, […]
Stephen A’Court The 21st century is full of reimaginings. We see movie series rebooted with new actors and, often, new plots. Producers insist they’re not remaking things, but reimagining them. They take something that we might already know well, and put a twist on it. And if that’s in the Zeitgeist for film, then it […]
Abigail Boyle to retire from Royal New Zealand Ballet in March
Evan Li Ross Brown Top: Boyle in Swan Lake in 2011. Above: In a promotional image for the Royal New Zealand Ballet’s 2018 season. The Royal New Zealand Ballet’s principal dancer, Abigail Boyle, has announced that she will retire from the company after appearing in Artemis Rising, which runs from March 1 to 9. […]
Vaimalama Chaves, Miss Tahiti, wins Miss France 2019
Bertrand Noël/SIPA/Miss France/TF1 Vaimalama Chaves, Miss Tahiti, has been crowned Miss France 2019, succeeding Maëva Coucke. Chaves is 23, and holds a master’s degree in management as well as qualifications in negotiation and customer relations. The top five contestants were Lauralyne Demesnay, Miss Franche-Comté; Morgane Soucramanien, Miss Réunion; Vaimalama Chaves, Miss Tahiti; Aude […]
