Part 4 Dance, Crafts and the Visual Arts Dorothy – 22/06/01 Dance highlights ihi FrENZy – a New Movement The Royal New Zealand Ballet and the Aotearoa Traditional Performing Arts Society Choreographer: Mark Baldwin ihi frENZy is a dynamic production of Maori culture, contemporary dance and music by New Zealand’s greatest rock band, Split Enz….
Paul Gorman – Editor of Canterbury University’s Chronicle – 15/06/01 Article from the University of Canterbury’s Chronicle Shame on the Government. One expects better of a Labour-led coalition, chock-full of university-educated ministers and MPs, many with degrees in the humanities and social sciences and some with qualifications from this University. Blackmail is not a word…
Drama And The Spoken Word – Poetry And Debate Dorothy – 15/06/01 What a feast of theatre is on offer! I’m not going to put them in order of preference. I’ll tell you about them in the order they appear in the programme. The Facemaker – a true story about war and love Director: Cathy…
Part 2 Opera, Instrumental and Choral Music Dorothy – 08/06/01 Excitement building as the Festival date approaches Festival team takes to the streets It was all hands on deck for the Christchurch Arts Festival team on Tuesday June 5 at 12.30pm when they took to the streets to put up the first of the six…
Dorothy – 01/06/01 What do we look for in an Arts Festival? We want variety in the programme and the chance to see new artists as well as relive artistic works we have been familiar with in the past. Christchurch Arts Festival 2001 offers a diverse and exciting programme to Festival audiences. Guy Boyce, Festival…
Dorothy – 2/2/01 Scilla Elworthy Scilla Elworthy who comes from the United Kingdom is Director of the Oxford Research Group which she founded in 1982 – a group committed to working for peace and aiming first to find out how nuclear decisions are made and who makes them. She now travels widely bringing together those…
Dorothy – 01/02/01 Elric Hooper Photo source Elric Hooper Directing four major productions, two in Auckland and two in Wellington, teaching three theatre courses, researching and presenting five major broadcasts on musical subjects on the Concert Programme, and in December being awarded the degree of D.Litt. honoris causa by the University of Canterbury – all…
Interview with Professor Lyle Campbell and Professor Elizabeth Gordon Dorothy – 15/12/00 Talking to these two Linguistics professors who are full of enthusiasm for their subject, their teaching and their research gave me the same feeling of excitement about what is offered to today’s students as I felt when talking to Professor Parkin in the…
Film Review – Conrad – 8/12/00 Guy Ritchie brings us a London gangster comedy in the same vein as his earlier ‘Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels’, and delivers a similarly fast paced, complex weave of characters and plot that entertains from beginning to end. Attempting to explain the plot would involve describing a large…
Film Review – Conrad – 17/11/00 New York, New York! – where models work as barmaids, dreams are derailed, and good looks and talent are not enough on their own for you to ‘make it’. Violet Sanford (Piper Perabo) dreams of taking her song writing talent to New York and ‘making it’, only to find…
