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Review: Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet, The Civic
The It company from New York City boasts 14 of the best dancers that the money of its founder and funder Wal-Mart heiress, Nancy Laurie, can buy and what those 14 fabulously honed and interestingly diverse beings can do is certainly superb.

Troupe finds strength in diversity
Since this is the first time New York dance company Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet has come to New Zealand, members can be forgiven for not being sunsmart.

Science gets explosive
An Auckland Arts Festival show doesn't just blow things up, blow things over, and blow people's minds, it proves that science isn't just for boys.

Through the looking glass
Mirrored towers make up the art installation Field, by Angus Muir and Alexandra Heaney, on display in Wynyard Quarter this month as part of the Auckland Arts Festival.

Tapa cloth at heart of doctorate in art
A Kiwi student has come up with an innovative way to show off her artistic photography - by using traditional Pacific tapa cloth.

McCahon looms large over WWI tribute
Activism through art specialist Lemi Ponifasio and Mau take Colin McCahon's iconic painting as a huge and architectural backdrop to their spellbinding tribute to the fallen of World War I - and take....

T.J. McNamara: The husband who became an insect
The Pacific Rim is reflected in the Auckland Arts Festival with art from Japan, New Zealand and Samoa. Six artists from Japan at the St Paul Street Gallery make considerable demands on the viewer. Three long videos are full of angst, examining Japanese so

Arts Festival must-see list
Elisabeth Easther takes a look at the Auckland Arts Festival’s crowd-pleasers and finds plenty to both amuse and delight.

Auckland Arts Festival: Versatility and great athleticism
"Hold on," says the woman on the end of the line. "He is in rehearsal right now. I'll just go and grab him."

Patrica Greig: You meet a wall and take it from there
All artists take risks. Elliot Stewart once faced an oncoming train as he painted the inside of a tunnel.

Weaving fine tapestry of music
I have always thought of Mere Boynton as one of Wellington's musical taonga; she trained as a singer at Victoria University and, in the 1990s, was a spellbinding performer at one of the city's....

All the thrills and spills of the circus
Danik Abishev was born in the circus "I really didn't have a choice about becoming a performer," he says.