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![Arts Festival Review: Spirit of India 2011: Shehnai and flute](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=792)
Arts Festival Review: Spirit of India 2011: Shehnai and flute
Rajendra Prasanna comes from generations of Indian master musicians. On Tuesday, thanks to him and his three colleagues, a rapt audience fell under the spell of a music in which time itself seemed almost to stand still.
![Arts Festival Review: Martha Wainwright](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=792)
Arts Festival Review: Martha Wainwright
Martha Wainwright describes her look as "ageless" - she is poised on the stage dressed like a school-girl with hair all wispy like her grandmother's.
![Arts Festival Review: May B](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=792)
Arts Festival Review: May B
Maguy Marin's landmark work, celebrating 30 feted years of continuous performance, begins with the sculptured forms of its ten dancers, posed in dusty alabaster-like desertion.
![Arts Festival Review: Lautten Compagney. Timeless](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=792)
Arts Festival Review: Lautten Compagney. Timeless
They may have swept us away with Handel and Purcell last week, but Lautten Compagney's Tuesday cocktail of Merula and Glass was altogether less enticing.
![Arts Festival Review: La Odisea](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=792)
Arts Festival Review: La Odisea
Teatro de Los Andes, based in Bolivia, offered to stage their "earthquake play" here instead of La Odisea, but were turned down for logistical reasons.
![Arts Festival Review: The Interminable Suicide of Gregory Church](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=792)
Arts Festival Review: The Interminable Suicide of Gregory Church
If you are looking for a show that is funny and uplifting, it is unlikely that you would settle on something that has interminable and suicide in its title.
![Arts Festival Review: Beautiful Me](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=792)
Arts Festival Review: Beautiful Me
The stage is dark with just the faint gleam of drum kit, sita, cello, violin and four seated musicians.
![Arts Festival Review: Paper Sky - A Love Story](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=792)
Arts Festival Review: Paper Sky - A Love Story
After creating a sensation at the previous Auckland Arts Festival, the creators of The Arrival have returned with an exquisitely crafted rhapsody of image and movement-based theatre.
![Arts Festival Review: Lautten Compagney, Handel With Care](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=792)
Arts Festival Review: Lautten Compagney, Handel With Care
Programme of tasty morsels served with wonderful flair
![Arts Festival Review: Loin... (Far...)](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=792)
Arts Festival Review: Loin... (Far...)
French dancer-choreographer Rachid Ouramdane's multimedia performance reviewed by Raewyn White
![Auckland Arts Festival: Moving Wright along](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=792)
Auckland Arts Festival: Moving Wright along
Bernadette Rae talks to the man many consider the guru of New Zealand dance, master choreographer Douglas Wright.
![Arts Festival Review: Xerxes](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=792)
Arts Festival Review: Xerxes
Heroes don't come much kookier than Xerxes. He may be the King of Persia but he opens Handel's opera by extolling the beauties of a plane tree; a man who, as one character comments, "is aroused by a rough trunk."