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New Zealand International Arts Festival 2010

Whenever there is an interview, preview or review that is about a New Zealand International Arts Festival 2010 event, the audio will appear here.

NZIAF Theatre Reviews
Jonathan Hendry reviews NZ International Arts Festival productions of 360, T.E.O.R.E.M.A.T and Mark Twain and Me in Maoriland.
from Upbeat 15 Mar 2010 (duration: 15′49″)
Richard Dawkins
The best known biologist on the planet talks about his new book - 'The Greatest Show on Earth-the evidence for evolution.
from Sunday Morning 14 Mar 2010 (duration: 34′03″)
Neil Gaiman: gods and graphics
Prolific creator of works of prose, poetry, film, journalism, comics, song lyrics, and drama who is visiting Wellington for Writers and Readers week at the NZ International Arts Festival.
from Saturday Morning 13 Mar 2010 (duration: 38′40″)
Revolt Of The Mannequins
Street theatre transforming the idea of the mannequin...
from Nights 12 Mar 2010 (duration: 13′07″)
Eleven Twelve Review
Jonathan Hendry reviews NZIAF premiere production of British director Peter BrookÂ’s latest work.
from Upbeat 11 Mar 2010 (duration: 8′36″)
Derek Johns
British writer and agent hosting a forum 'Publishing in the Twenty-First Century' as part of NZIAF Writers and Readers week.
from Upbeat 11 Mar 2010 (duration: 16′33″)
Tim Matthies
Director of Artistic Planning with Musica Viva Australia talks about attending the NZ International Arts Festival Chamber Music Weekend.
from Upbeat 10 Mar 2010 (duration: 16′06″)
Shaun Parker
Australian choreographer whose show 'Happy as Larry' features in the NZ INternational Arts Festival.
from Upbeat 10 Mar 2010 (duration: 19′25″)
Inside out
A mind blowing journey with trapeze, clowning spectacular acrobatics, magic and illusion.
from Nights 09 Mar 2010 (duration: 19′48″)
NZ International Arts Festival Reviews (1)
Murray Khouri reviews The Borodin Quartet, Zephyr Wind Quintet, and tenor Keith Lewis with pianist Michael Houstoun.
from Upbeat 08 Mar 2010 (duration: 18′38″)
Igor Niadin
Borodin Quartet violist talks about current NZ tour.
from Upbeat 08 Mar 2010 (duration: 14′07″)
NZ International Arts Festival Reviews (1)
Peter Mechen reviews NZTrio, NZSQ, Simon O'Neill and the NZSO.
from Upbeat 08 Mar 2010 (duration: 16′56″)
Geoff Dyer: creative non-fiction
Novelist and writer of creative non-fiction who is a guest at Writers and Readers week during the New Zealand International Arts Festival.
from Saturday Morning 06 Mar 2010 (duration: 35′51″)
Playing Favourites with Don McGlashan
New Zealand musical performer, recording artist, film composer and producer, who is appearing at the New Zealand International Arts and WOMAD.
from Saturday Morning 06 Mar 2010 (duration: 40′00″)
Irya's Playground
Swedish band Irya's Playground are in new Zealand to perform in the NZ International Arts Festival. They talk to Music 101's Kirsten Johnstone about running away with the circus, and perform 'Room 54' live in the RNZ Studio. 6 March 2010.
from NR Live Music 05 Mar 2010 (duration: 10′47″)
Feature guest - Illija Trojanow
He's a travel author and novellist. Bulgarian born, German and African bred, he's also an authority on that other enigmatic African traveller and writer, Richard Burton. He speaks with Bryan and will be appearing at Readers and Writers Week at the New Zealand International Festival of the Arts.
from Nights 05 Mar 2010 (duration: 19′07″)
Dianne Reeves
Dianne Reeves is in 'Sing the Truth - a tribute to Nina Simone'.
from Upbeat 05 Mar 2010 (duration: 15′27″)
Irya Gmeyner and Pange Oberg
From the group 'Irya's Playground' who perform with the 'Circus Cirkor' in 'Inside Out'.
from Upbeat 05 Mar 2010 (duration: 10′57″)
Simon O'Neill
New Zealand Wagnerian tenor who performs with the NZSO tonight in the Festival's Wagner Gala Concert.
from Upbeat 05 Mar 2010 (duration: 11′28″)
Phil Dadson
Auckland based composer and sound artist whose video work 'Breath of Wind' featuring 17 hot air balloons and the Levin Brass Band will be projected in the Wellington Town Hall.
from Upbeat 05 Mar 2010 (duration: 10′09″)
The NZ Trio
Violinist Justine Cormack with cellist Ashley Brown and pianist Sarah Watkins talk about their upcoming performance as part of the 'Chamber Music Weekend'.
from Upbeat 05 Mar 2010 (duration: 10′14″)
Feature guest - Sarah Waters
This British Booker Prize short-listed writer is acclaimed for redefining historical fiction. Sarah speaks with Bryan about Tipping the Velvet and her impending appearance at the New Zealand International Arts Festival in Wellington as part of Writers and Readers Week.
from Nights 04 Mar 2010 (duration: 16′34″)
Jenny McLeod
The composer talks about setting poems by Janet Frame for tenor Keith Lewis and pianist Michael Houstoun to premiere this Sunday at the NZ International Arts Festival, 'Peaks of Clouds'.
from Upbeat 04 Mar 2010 (duration: 18′44″)
Simone
Broadway star and daughter of the legendary singer Nina Simone.
from Nine To Noon 04 Mar 2010 (duration: 19′49″)
Festival Review for 3 March 2010
Apollo 13: Mission Control, Echoa, Mary Stuart.
from Afternoons 03 Mar 2010 (duration: 16′37″)
Lyne Pringle
Reviews two dance works from the NZ International Arts Festival; Echoa and Sutra..
from Upbeat 03 Mar 2010 (duration: 12′35″)
NZIAF: Sutra
Wang Hui, Buddhist Monk of the Shaolin Temple and amp; Dancer (with Li Jing, translator). Sutra is a breathtaking sequence of movement and acrobatics. Sutra brings together one of Europe's most exciting choreographer-dancers, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Turner Prize-winning artist Antony Gormley, and Buddhist monks from the original Shaolin Temple in China.
from Nights 02 Mar 2010 (duration: 18′40″)
Festival Review for 2 March 2010
Inside Out, MTYLAND, Crossover work at the festival.
from Afternoons 02 Mar 2010 (duration: 17′10″)
Tony Ryan
Review of the opening concert at the NZ International Arts Festival with the NZSO performing Mahler's 8th Symphony under Vladimir Ashkenazy.
from Upbeat 02 Mar 2010 (duration: 15′10″)
Alvis Hermanis
Latvian director who's wordless play Sound of Silence is part of this year's NZ International Arts Festival.
from Upbeat 02 Mar 2010 (duration: 18′42″)
Szymon Broska
Composer and pianist with the International Arts Festival production 'Sutra'.
from Upbeat 01 Mar 2010 (duration: 14′51″)
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.
from The Arts on Sunday 28 Feb 2010 (duration: 8′19″)
Drawing with light
Lucy meets English artist, Anthony McCall, whose light sculptures have habit of disappearing.
from The Arts on Sunday 28 Feb 2010 (duration: 10′23″)
Sutra
Sudi Larbi Cherkaoui is a Belgian-Flemish choreographer. He has worked with Shaolin monks to create a piece placed upon a set of giant boxes.
from The Arts on Sunday 28 Feb 2010 (duration: 11′00″)
Professional poet
Kevin Connolly is a Canadian poet with an acute sense of the absurd and a wonderful wit, who is going to be in Wellington for the NZIAF 2010 Readers and Writers Week.
from Nights 26 Feb 2010 (duration: 18′41″)
Vladimir Ashkenazy
Russian conductor and virtuoso pianist who conducts the NZSO in Wellington tonight; Mahler's 8th Symphony - Symphony of a Thousand.
from Upbeat 26 Feb 2010 (duration: 16′57″)
Anthony McCall
New York based British installation artist who's in New Zealand as part of the NZ International Arts Festival with his work of 'Solid Light'.
from Upbeat 23 Feb 2010 (duration: 23′31″)
The Settler Revolution
Historian James Bellich explores the success of how english speaking people have spread around the world.
from Nights 22 Feb 2010 (duration: 38′58″)
Playing Favourites with Hone Kouka
Playwright, short story writer, poet, children's writer, actor and director, his production of He Reo Aroha will play at the 2010 New Zealand International Arts Festival.
from Saturday Morning 20 Feb 2010 (duration: 36′25″)
Suzanne Andrade
UK writer and director of 'Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea' which comes to New Zealand next month with the New Zealand International Arts Festival.
from Upbeat 19 Feb 2010 (duration: 15′50″)
Richard Greager
Organiser of the St Andrews on the Terrace 'Season of Concert's' which will run alongside the NZInternational Arts Festival in Wellington next month.
from Upbeat 18 Feb 2010 (duration: 12′03″)
Peter Brook - Theatre and tolerance
Innovative director of stage and screen, his new production, '11 and 12', will play at the 2010 New Zealand International Arts Festival.
from Saturday Morning 13 Feb 2010 (duration: 20′57″)
Fariba Hachtroudi: Iran
Iranian-born writer now living in Paris; a critic of the current regime in Iran, she is the French writer in residence at the Randell Cottage in Wellington.
from Saturday Morning 30 Jan 2010 (duration: 32′21″)
Philip Hoare: whale tales
British writer whose most recent book, Leviathan or, The Whale, won the 2009 Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction; visiting NZ in March for Writers and Readers Week at the NZ International Arts Festival.
from Saturday Morning 30 Jan 2010 (duration: 51′09″)
Kamila Shamsie: Pakistan
Pakistani author of five novels (the most recent is Burnt Shadows), visiting next year for the New Zealand International Arts Festival 2010.
from Saturday Morning 05 Dec 2009 (duration: 29′46″)
Simon Schama: USA, past, present, future
Historian, author, broadcaster, and cultural critic, whose most recent book is The American Future; he will headline Writers and Readers Week during the New Zealand International Arts Festival 2010.
from Saturday Morning 14 Nov 2009 (duration: 35′01″)

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