Radio New Zealand - Te Reo Irirangi o Aotearoa

28 February 2010

12:40 Sutra

How Buddhist monks from China teamed up with a Turner Prize winning British artist and a Flemish/Moroccan Choreographer to create a work described as 'maniacally dangerous'.

1:50From Here to There

A review of the Royal New Zealand Ballet's new touring trio of dances, From Here to There. Terry MacTavish was at the opening night in Dunedin and joins us with her impressions.

12:50 The judge and the winner of the country's premiere Portraiture Award

1:05 At the Movies

Simon Morris looks at this year's Documentary Edge Film Festival…

1:30 Three Tenors

We hear from not one, not two, but three Kiwi tenors ahead of their 23 centre nationwide tour with a soprano.

Derek Hill, Benjamin Fifita Makisi, and Bonavenuture Allan-Moetaua of Operatunity

1:40 The Parihaka Album : Lest We Forget

Rachel Buchanan (below right) talks about her investigation into the untold stories of the Crown's 1881 invasion of Parihaka Pa, one of the most troubling chapters in New Zealand's history. She includes own family history in the story.

1:50Drawing with Light

Lucy meets English artist, Anthony McCall, whose light sculptures have habit of disappearing.

Left: Anthony McCall, Line Describing a Cone, 1973, during the twenty-fourth minute Installation view at the Whitney Museum of American Art exhibition "Into the Light: the Projected Image in American Art 1964-1977", 2002
Photograph: Hank Graber. Courtesy of the artist and Sean Kelly Gallery, New York.
Right: Anthony McCall, You and I, Horizontal (III), 2007. Installation view at Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, 2007. Photograph: Steven Harris. Courtesy of the artist and Sean Kelly Gallery, New York.

2:05Mediawatch

Does Radio New Zealand need to be "saved" from the government as campaigners are claiming?; the challenge to a made-up climate change quote; journalists' gripes go global online.

2:40 Playing the Unplayable

A chat to German drama teacher and director, Harry Fuhrmann, who's working with young New Zealand actors on a project that will give audiences a glimpse into Jewish life in Germany during WWII.

2:50 Sound of Silence

The Latvian show Sound of Silence, is a three and a quarter hour long play - without words, but using Simon and Garfunkel's music as a soundtrack.

3:00 The Sunday Drama

A disturbing fable by Wellington designer and theatre practitioner Sam Trubridge. A tale set in the timeless and dark fantasy world of a travelling circus where the Ringmaster rules and dreadful secrets are buried and forgotten.