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Tempo Festival of Dance 10
Y CHROMOZONE at TAPAC Theatre, Western Springs
reviewed by Sue Cheesman 12 Oct 2010
Definitely a winner
Y CHROMOSOME packed a punch with its vitality, variety and powerful male performances, closing the two week tempo dance season at TAPAC on a real high. It is inspiring to see young men at the beginning of dance careers share the stage with very seasoned performers. [more]

FOOTNOTE FORTE 2010 at Museum of City & Sea + The Boatshed + The Museum Hotel
reviewed by Jenny Stevenson 12 Oct 2010
Full of surprises and fanciful conceits
Following on from last year’s Forte Solo Season, Footnote Dance Company has once again commissioned a series of short new dance works for the 2010 Forte Series from a number of choreographers, in order to push the parameters of what constitutes the Footnote style of dance. [more]

Photo: Jane Ussher
MACBETH at St James Theatre
reviewed by Sharon Talbot 12 Oct 2010
Great theatre: a must-see
[Corrections made 13/10/10] Like superb singing? Go see Macbeth. Enjoy intelligent directing? Go see Macbeth. Love dramatic music? Go see Macbeth. Appreciate atmospheric theatre design? Go... you’ve got the idea. [more]

DEADLY at Downstage - return season
reviewed by Laurie Atkinson (The Dominion Post) 12 Oct 2010
Subtle portrayal of descent into sin
... Luckily, Deborah Pope’s approach to Pride, Wrath, Lust, Envy, Gluttony, Avarice and Sloth is more subtle and more interesting. The sins are only deadly when they are taken to extremes ... [more]

THE BIRTHDAY BOY at Circa One
reviewed by Laurie Atkinson (The Dominion Post) 12 Oct 2010
Friendship and jealousy
With The Birthday Boy we are taken on a 25 year journey travelling through the very familiar New Zealand theatrical landscape of middle-class comedy. It’s a rambling comic trip passing through a number of birthdays and on the way we are confronted with the trials of friendship, parenthood, marriage, and the search for personal fulfillment. [more]

Otago Festival of the Arts 2010
LE SUD at Settlers Festival Theatre
reviewed by Jonathan W. Marshall 11 Oct 2010
A comedy of manners, not politics
To describe Le Sud as a French farce is perhaps too easy, and in any case, the rapid fire exchanges, dense dialogue, endless quips, and elements of sexual comedy are hardly unique to French theatre. [more]

LINE DANCES at Metro Cinema
reviewed by Jonathan W. Marshall 11 Oct 2010
Best viewed on its intended medium: the internet
One of the things I have always liked about Belton’s work is his relative disinterest in dance per se once it is transferred to the filmic media. As he observes in his suggestive program notes, taking choreographed material into the screen space makes it both highly “artificial” and “ties it strongly to graphic art.” [more]

THE BIRTHDAY BOY at Circa One
reviewed by John Smythe 10 Oct 2010
Entertainingly provocative play needs to be trusted
The publicity image (above) and the way the actors play up the first two scenes – loud and large – leads us to believe we are in for a light comic romp. Or maybe they are over-compensating for having to play well below their actual ages ... [more]

WE'RE BACK at Auckland Grammar Centennial Theatre
reviewed by Jennifer De Leon 9 Oct 2010
If all the boys and men in NZ danced, just imagine!
Fifty young men… boyz-to-men, actually, who can all keep time, is a wondrous thing to see. These same fifty boyz-to-men furthermore have both the courage and intention to put themselves ‘out there’ on stage, sans props, sans special effects ... [more]

COMMUNITAS at Allen Hall Theatre
reviewed by Kilda Northcote 9 Oct 2010
A treat of 8
The University of Otago Dance Studies Community Dancers proudly present original expressive, modern, ballet and contemporary dances in a delightful evening of 8 works. [more]
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