Upbeat

Top European choreographer Arthur Pita used his teenage experiences as a competition-level disco dancer to colour his work for Russian dancers Natalia Osipova and partner Sergei Polunin. Both are… Read more Audio

Ian Wedde is curator for the Auckland Arts Festival exhibition Picturing Asia: Double Take. It celebrates the work of two of the world’s leading photo journalists:  New Zealander Brian Brake… Read more Audio

Berlin-based performance artist Alexa Wilson is doing a new solo work at the Auckland Fringe Festival. She’s one of the pioneers behind feminist performance art in New Zealand and is doing an… Read more Audio

Aussie Tenor James Egglestone is one of the stars of the Christchurch Symphony Orchestra’s outdoor summer event. The concert at Pegasus Bay Winery in Waipara on Saturday week features James along with… Read more Audio

Soprano Katherine McIndoe and Baritone Daniel O’Connor are performing in Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin for Days Bay Opera.

Katherine will perform as Tatyana, while Daniel will reprise Eugene Onegin… Read more Audio

Biographer Joanne Drayton is on a residency at the Carey Institute for Global Good in New York State.

The Auckland English teacher and author of biographies of crime writer Ngaio Marsh, painters… Read more Audio

Auckland Youth Orchestra Principal Trombone player Mark Bingham talks to Eva Radich about finding his love of a variety of music through the Star Wars theme, which last year led to performing music… Read more Video, Audio

One of the more offbeat shows on as part at the Auckland Fringe is taking place at the Barista Cats cat café. Purrfectly Pawsome Catacular promises half an hour of cat focused dancing and performance… Read more Audio

Elizabeth Kerr is in Nelson to enjoy the Adam Chamber Music Festival. She reviews Journeys (featuring violinist Monique Lapins as a soloist), Dame Gillian Whitehead's new one-woman opera Iris… Read more Audio

Isaac Hayward is one of Australia’s most exciting young music directors.

He’s only twenty-five, has already been nominated for a Helpmann Award and worked with performers as diverse as Tim Finn, Jon… Read more Audio

The voice is an instrument and it can be used in many different ways. As part of last month’s New Zealand Singing School, the style of belting was explored.  Zoe George explains there’s more to the… Read more Audio

How do you sing without damaging your voice? What should you do to warm up and cool down? What about avoiding dairy before singing? Dr Irene Bartlett from the Queensland Conservatorium is a specialist… Read more Audio