Tuesday evening marked the opening night for the second week of The Basement Theatre’s Performance Salon. It showcased works by a number of young, up-and-coming performers working across various disciplines. The concept behind the Performance Salon seemed to be to create a testing ground for young creatives to evolve their works, while utilizing the energy, […]
A lone dancer walks across the barren stage, lit only by a single row of fluorescent lights. His figure contorts in movements reminiscent of man’s primal origins- basic, hunched and grounded. Silence is his music, confronting the audience with pure movement and the screaming of emotions through his body alone. This opening dance from the […]
In spite of my surname I haven’t often listened to traditional Irish folk music and I have never coveted it in my personal music collection. It’s a genre I associated with another world, an old world, far removed from my own. My experience last night at the Auckland Town Hall with The Gloaming has changed […]