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12:15 The Rich and Vibrant True Stories of New Zealand Women

Kororareka: The Ballad of Maggie Flynn

Kororareka: The Ballad of Maggie Flynn Photo: supplied

Director Julie Nolan

Director Julie Nolan Photo: supplied

Auckland's Red Leap Theatre have built a formidable reputation for excellent physical theatre - and for devising their stories in the rehearsal room.

Their new show, Kororareka - the Ballad of Maggie Flynn, promises to be just as physical. But to tell this tale of adventure and danger in 19th century Northland, they've added a new element - a script, written by Paolo Rotondo:

Justin Gregory went to Red Leap's rehearsal space in West Auckland to ask director Julie Nolan why the change to the written word.

12:30 Pacific Bodies

Right now the Auckland Art Gallery is promising an encounter with "the human form in all its complexity".

The Body Laid Bare is a major exhibition of nude masterpieces from the collection of the Tate Gallery in London. It's on in Auckland until the middle of next month and is a stupendous collection. But all complexities? No.

So the gallery and the British Council have commissioned five Pasifika artists to create video responses to the collection. The first video, by artist Rosanna Raymond, is online and has already been viewed more than 30,000 times. Justin Gregory asks Rosanna, who is in New York on a Fellowship, if she was expecting such a big reaction.

 

12:45 Lick My Past

Kelly Nash and Nancy Wijohn

Kelly Nash and Nancy Wijohn Photo: supplied

Dancers Kelly Nash and Nancy Wijohn have worked for some of our best choreographers but now they've taken the leap and made their own show.

Lick My Past opens this week at the Kia Mau Festival in Wellington. It celebrates relationships between women and reflects the couple's need to not take themselves too seriously. Especially given that, in their words, their careers are now 'a matter of choice."

Justin Gregory asks them if this meant they are retiring. Kelly puts him right.

 

The Standing Room Only team has done the hard work for you and picked some of the highlights of the Kai Mau Festival.

Friday’s Flock hits Wellington with a three-show season at BATS Theatre.

This short works programme is tied by the theme of Manaia, named for the mythical creature possessing the head of a bird and body of a human, bridging human endeavour to spiritual aspiration. Pito by Nancy Wijohn explores themes around maternal connection, and attempts to uncover meanings of loss, abandonment and pain to find light, enlightenment and love. Te Waenganui by Gabrielle Thomas explores the three fingers of the manaia – birth, life, and death – and the space between, known as Te Waenganui. Kelly Nash presents Mā, a reframed and recontextualised look at the myth of demigod Maui and his efforts to gain eternal life by exploiting the goddess Hine Nui Te Po.

Purple Onion peeps into the world of Wellington’s infamous burlesque parlour, the Purple Onion. Established in the mid 1960s, the Purple Onion was Wellington’s premiere strip club which attracted some of New Zealand’s social elite as well as its fair share of dubious characters. Inspired by both the stories of Pasi Daniels, the original owner of Purple Onion nightclub; and Carmen: My Life: As told to Paul Martin.

Layered with myth and fable, The Mooncake and the Kūmara is a moving story about a mixed-up, Māori-Chinese love affair that sprouts among rows of potatoes. Told in a rich mixture of English, Māori and Cantonese, The Mooncake and the Kūmara is the debut, award-winning play by Māori-Chinese playwright Mei-Lin Te Puea Hansen and directed by Katie Wolfe. It is loosely based on the story of Mei-Lin’s grandparents’ relationship; this story is about history, duty, secrets and the delicate balance needed to grow families.

This Is What It Looks Like is written, directed and performed by Neenah Dekkers-Reihana and produced by Timeless Trash Productions.

An Aotearoa musical adventure as 10-year-old Mata journeys to a mysterious maunga to seek an ancient kōauau. Being guided by ngā manu and waiata, Mata faces dangerous challenges and encounters quirky and charming characters who help him on his way. In order to find the kōauau Mata must sing the best waiata there has ever been. This Mysterious Musical Maunga has never been rocked so much.

The timeless, intense and transcendent solo ritual created and performed by Santee Smith, NeoIndigenA calls for connection and renewal. The elemental experience fiercely cycles through sacred portals between Skyworld, Earthworld and Underworld. Ascending into Skyworld she embodies celestial animals, cosmos, and Skybeing. Digging into the darkness of the UnderWorld, she becomes underwater serpent, insects and tectonic plates. Landing back in the EarthWorld, she embodies rhythms and forms of the Earth.

This year, Taki Rua are taking on their most ambitious project yet – touring the performing arts epic Tiki Taane Mahuta, starring the legendary Tiki Taane, to thirteen cities around Aotearoa. ​Live music, theatre, aerial performance, contemporary dance, kapa haka, mau rākau and hip hop unite in Tiki Taane Mahuta, one of New Zealand’s largest nationally-devised productions ever. Nine leading performers will showcase on New Zealand’s greatest stages, while Tiki Taane plays his soundtrack live with support from Shapeshifter’s Sam Trevethick.

Self proclaimed young mongrel, poet and playwright, Rowley Habib, will be remembered one year after his passing in a presentation of his works. To commemorate his contribution to the Māori Theatre scene, Hāpai Productions will present a one-hour celebration of works by writer Rowley Habib and performed by some of Wellington’s most celebrated Māori Theatre practitioners.

1:10 At The Movies

 

1:33 Matariki - the star of the year.

Dr. Rangi Matamua

Dr. Rangi Matamua Photo: supplied

Matariki - the star of the year.

Matariki - the star of the year. Photo: supplied

Recognition of Matariki is on the rise and along with it, a new appreciation of Māori astronomical knowledge.

Te Kōkau Himiona Te Pikikotuku of Ruatāhuna began to compile a 400-page manuscript on Maori Astronomy with his son Rāwiri in 1898 which Rāwiri Te Kōkau completed in 1933. On his deathbed, Rāwiri Te Kōkau handed this book to his grandson Timi Rāwiri, and in 1995 this book was then gifted to Timi's grandson Waikato University lecturer Dr. Rangi Matamua.

After years of studying this manuscript and research into Māori astronomy, Dr Rangi Matamua has brought this manuscript to life in his new book Matariki - the star of the year.

But major misunderstandings of what - and when - Matariki is are still common. Dr Rangi Matamua talks to Justin Gregory to try and clear some of these up.

1:40 Musicians of Aotearoa

Photographer Hayley Theyers

Photographer Hayley Theyers Photo: supplied

If you were out and about during New Zealand music month, you might have seen some familiar faces on billboards. Musicians of Aotearoa is a series of portraits made into posters of some of our best but maybe not best known musicians.

Photographer Hayley Theyers went to the homes and studios of musicians like Bill Direen, Peter Gutteridge, George Henderson and Chris Knox to shoot them for the posters. She's a massive music fan and we thought we'd invite her in to talk about the portraits and listen to some of her favourite songs.

Frederick St

Albany St

Bill Vosburgh, Purple Pilgrims and Matthew Banister on Eden Terrace, Auckland

Colombo St Beckenham, Christchurch.

George St

Bill Vosburgh, Chelsea Nikkel, Ronnie van Hout and Stephen Neville for the Phantom Billstickers MOA project, Dunedin

Purple Pilgrims and Peter Gutteridge in Dunedin

A Chris Knox super-sized poster on Symonds Street, Auckland

A line up of: Purple Pilgrims, Peter Gutteridge, Chelsea Nikkel and Stephen Neville for the Phantom Billstickers Musicians of Aotearoa project

Adelaide Road Newtown Wellington

A super-sized George Henderson poster on cnr Albert and Wolfe Streets, Auckland

 

2:06 The Laugh Track - Chris Rex Martin

Chris Rex Martin

Chris Rex Martin Photo: supplied

Chris Rex Martin is an actor and a producer and lately he's added writer to his list of titles. He's co-written a new show called Larger Than Life, which opens this week in Wellington. It's a satirical look back to a time when Maori showbands conquered the country and John Rowles ruled New Zealand. And he's acting in it, too.

 

2:25 Heloise d’Argenteuil - old questions, new answers?

Heloise Cover

Heloise Cover Photo: supplied

What on earth can you do when you're young, brilliant, ambitious - and female - in medieval France?

That's the dilemma facing the heroine of Mandy Hager's new Novel, Heloise. Based on new research into the life of Heloise d’Argenteuil, famed lover of 12th century French philosopher Peter Abelard, this is a new take on a well-known story with very modern questions at it heart.

Mandy Hagar

Mandy Hagar Photo: David Hamilton

2:40 Telling arts stories.

Duncan Grieve

Duncan Grieve Photo: supplied

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It’s not news that arts coverage is having a hard time holding its place in the mainstream media but there’s plenty of room online. Websites The Spinoff and The Pantograph Punch are two local examples with very different takes on how to talk about art. Justin Gregory invited the Spinoff’s Duncan Grieve and Janet McAllister from the Pantograph Punch in to chat.

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Janet McAlister

Janet McAlister Photo: supplied

3:06 Drama at 3 - The Big Melt by Stuart Hoar

The final drama in our Worldplay 2010 series.
It's New Zealand's contribution to the 6-part international series of plays- all based on a single theme - MONEY.
And our offering is Stuart Hoar’s far reaching comic drama The Big Melt' which explores aspects of the recent global financial meltdown, climate change and personal morality.

 

Music played in this show

Artist: Perry Como

Song: Catch a Falling Star

Composer: Paul ance & Lee Pockriss

Album: single

Label: EMI

Played at: 12:15

 

Artist: SCALA AND KOLACNY BROTHERS

Song: Yellow

Composer: Chris Martin, Johnny Buckland, Guy Berryman, Will Champoin

Album: It All Leads to This

Label: ATCO/Warner

Played at: 12:30

 

Artist: Boy Meets Girl

Song: Waiting for a Star to Fall

Composer: Shannon Rubicam George Merril

Album: Reel Life

Label: RCS

Played at: 12:58

 

Artist: Earth Wind and Fire

Song: Shining Star

Composer: Maurice White, Larry Dunn and Phillip Bailey

Album: That’s the Way of The World

Label: Columbia

Played at: 1:10

 

Artist: The Puddle

Song: Someone To Love

Composer: George D. Henderson

Album: Songs for Emily Valentine

Label: flying nun

Played at: 1:30

 

Artist: The Great Unwashed

Song: Boat With No Ocean

Composer: Peter Gutteridge  

Album: The Singles Album

Label: Flying Nun

Played at: 1:35

 

 

 

 

 

 

Artist: Purple Pilgrims

Song: thru Every Cell

Composer: Purple Pilgrims

Album: Eternal Delight

Label:

Played at: 1.40

 

Artist: Perfect Strangers

Song: Flea Circus and Wah Uh Wah Wah Uh

Composer: Bill Vosburgh

Album: Noli Me Tangere EP

Label:

Played at: 1.45

 

 

Artist: the Tall Dwarfs

Song: All my Hollowness to You

Composer: Chris Knox

Album: Hello Cruel World

Label:

Played at: 1:50

 

  1. Matthew Bannister - "And Your Bird Can Sing" from the Elvover album

 

 

Artist: Matthew Bannister

Song: And Your bird Can Sing

Composer: Lennon/McCartney

Album: Evolver

Label:

Played at: 1:55

 

Artist: Jamelia

Song: Superstar

Composer: Remee, Mich Hansen, Joe Belmaati

Album: Thank You

Label: Parlophone

Played at: 2:07

 

Artist: The Beatles

Song: Across The Universe

Composer: Lennon/McCartney

Album: No One’s Gonna Change Our World

Label: Regal Starline

Played at: 2:30

 

Artist: Paul Oakenfold

Song: Starry Eyed Surprise

Composer: Seth Binzer, Andy Gray, Fred Neil, Paul Oakenfold

Album: Bunkka

Label: Maverick

Played at: 2:55

 

Artist: Madonna

Song: Lucky Star

Composer: Madonna

Album: Madonna

Label: Sire. Warner Brothers

Played at: 3:05

 

Artist: Rose Royce

Song: Wishing on A Star

Composer: Billie Ray Calvin

Album: Rose Royce II: In Full Bloom

Label: Whitfield

Played at: 3:55