Full Coverage of the 2010 New Zealand International Arts Festival
17 November 2009 3:32pm | 2010 International NZ Arts Festival
The New Zealand International Arts Festival has launched its programme for 2010. From internationally acclaimed
conductor, Vladimir Ashkenazy to legendary sitar player, Ravi Shankar, the New Zealand International Arts Festival will
present the best arts ... More >>
17 November 2009 3:30pm | 2010 International NZ Arts Festival
From internationally legendary sitar player, Ravi Shankar, to acclaimed conductor, Vladimir Ashkenazy the New Zealand
International Arts Festival will present the best arts the world has to offer from 26 February to 21 March. More >>
17 November 2009 4:04pm | New Zealand International Arts Festival
One of the world’s most popular Baroque ensembles makes its Australasian debut during the New Zealand International Arts
Festival in 2010 with its energetic interpretation of classical and contemporary music. More >>
17 November 2009 4:03pm | New Zealand International Arts Festival
When Dean Wareham brings 13 Most Beautiful ... to the New Zealand International Arts Festival next March he will be
performing in his home town for the first time. More >>
17 November 2009 4:01pm | New Zealand International Arts Festival
A supernova line up of four of the world’s great female vocalists – Dianne Reeves, Patti Austin, Lizz Wright and Simone
- pay homage to the one and only Nina Simone in Sing The Truth: Nina Simone Remembered. More >>
17 November 2009 4:00pm | New Zealand International Arts Festival
When Rufus Wainwright takes the stage at the Wellington Town Hall for the New Zealand International Arts Festival next
year it will be solo with a Steinway D grand piano. More >>
17 November 2009 3:58pm | New Zealand International Arts Festival
Creators Kate Parker and Julie Nolan combine visual and physical theatre to draw in all senses and tell the story of a
character who is forced to leave his home country and create a new life in a strange world. This character is met with
strange customs, ... More >>
17 November 2009 3:57pm | New Zealand International Arts Festival
“The 14 actors recreate amusingly and with precision that period of blissful innocence and inoffensive hysteria in the
search for happiness” Le Courrier de Russie More >>
17 November 2009 3:56pm | New Zealand International Arts Festival
Celebrated Irish playwright Enda Walsh’s devastatingly funny play The Walworth Farce is on the largest international
tour for a new work in recent times, and it’s heading to the New Zealand International Arts Festival for 2010. More >>
17 November 2009 3:55pm | New Zealand International Arts Festival
Europe’s trailblazing theatre company TR Warszawa and its white hot writer-director Grzegorz Jarzyna bring their latest
work T.E.O.R.E.M.A.T. to the New Zealand International Arts Festival next March. More >>
17 November 2009 3:54pm | New Zealand International Arts Festival
Legendary theatre director Peter Brook is currently in rehearsal with his latest work Eleven and Twelve ahead of its
world premiere in Paris at the end of November, then subsequent tour to Poland and London then direct to the New Zealand
International ... More >>
17 November 2009 3:53pm | New Zealand International Arts Festival
Sweden’s Cirkus Cirkör brings its hit show, The TV3 Season of Inside out, to the New Zealand International Arts Festival
with jaw-dropping athletics and playful magical storytelling that is all about the human heart and “something as simple
as life.” More >>
17 November 2009 3:52pm | New Zealand International Arts Festival
Direct from the original Shaolin Temple in China, Saholin warrior monks perform the breathtaking dance work Sutra by of
one of Europe’s most exciting choreographer-dancers, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, in its only Australasian performances at the
New Zealand International ... More >>
17 November 2009 3:51pm | New Zealand International Arts Festival
The opening of New Zealand’s International Arts Festival on February 26 will gather together one of New Zealand’s
largest ever orchestral and choral polyphonies for Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 8 lead by world renowned conductor
Vladimir Ashkenazy. More >>
17 November 2009 3:50pm | New Zealand International Arts Festival
Dancers from China, the UK, France, Sweden, New Zealand and Australia push the edges of dance and the limits of the
human body at the next 2010 New Zealand International Arts Festival. More >>
17 November 2009 3:49pm | New Zealand International Arts Festival
“We have a strong commitment to make the New Zealand International Arts Festival an educational environment for New
Zealand’s artists and technicians of the future, and we invite schools throughout New Zealand to consider SchoolFest for
their 2010 ... More >>
17 November 2009 3:47pm | New Zealand International Arts Festival
From Roald Dahl stories set to chamber music, theatre, dance, kids’ films, workshops and storytelling, Kids on Sundays
offers loads of fun for kids of all ages. More >>
17 November 2009 3:45pm | New Zealand International Arts Festival
The New Zealand International Arts Festival has programmed a special weekend of classical music performances, films, and
talks by renowned New Zealand and international artists in the Wellington Town Hall next March. More >>
17 November 2009 3:44pm | New Zealand International Arts Festival
“The visual arts provide additional perspective to the Festival, opening our eyes to new ways of seeing and
understanding that which is around us - it is a very important part of the Festival,” says Lissa Twomey, Artistic
Director of the New Zealand ... More >>
17 November 2009 3:42pm | New Zealand International Arts Festival
The New Zealand International Arts Festival launches a new initiative RESTAGE that brings New Zealand theatre and dance
work back to the stage following their next phase of development. More >>
17 November 2009 3:40pm | New Zealand International Arts Festival
On the Festival’s opening night, a live relay of the Mahler’s Symphony No. 8 will appear on a giant screen in Civic
Square outside the Michael Fowler Centre where the performance, featuring the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra under the
baton of ... More >>
17 November 2009 3:38pm | New Zealand International Arts Festival
Around the world attendance at literary festivals is skyrocketing. Writers and readers, in ever increasing numbers, are
coming together to share ideas, explore and reflect on the world in which we live. More >>
17 November 2009 3:37pm | New Zealand International Arts Festival
A 500-seat performance venue and nightclub will be built on the Wellington waterfront especially for the 2010 New
Zealand International Arts Festival. More >>
17 November 2009 3:36pm | New Zealand International Arts Festival
National and International artists will perform in communities in the wider Wellington Region as part of the New Zealand
International Arts Festival’s Art On The Move programme. More >>
17 November 2009 3:34pm | New Zealand International Arts Festival
Five world premieres of New Zealand theatre and classical music will be showcased at the New Zealand International Arts
Festival in March next year. More >>
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