Arts

Norway based percussion soloist Jennifer Torrence works at the edge where theatre and music combine. She uses her body like an actor, sometimes armed with drumsticks.  Jennifer is in Wellington to… Video, Audio

New Zealand artist Richard Lewer, based in Melbourne, has won the $100,000 Basil Sellers Art Prize for his work The Theatre of Sports (2016) which draws on his passion for art and sport. The 12… Audio

With the Games of the XXXI Olympiad only days away, Dan Slevin chatted to Jesse Mulligan about the way the Summer Olympics have been represented in cinema. Video, Audio

Raised in Canada's Yukon territory, Ivan's books and storytelling detail the isolation and freedom of the journey in coming to terms with who you are and how society reacts. Ivan Coyote is appearing… Video, Audio

The festival has completed its Auckland season but continues in Wellington. Here’s Dan Slevin’s second snapshot of his festival.

Poet, writer, historian and activist Akala started the Hip Hop Shakespeare company in 2009 as a way to bring the work of Shakespeare to younger audiences, and to highlight the linguistic parallels… Audio

Jeremy Olds is off to Columbia University in New York to complete a Master of Arts in journalism, with a focus on arts and culture. The 26 year old has already made a name for himself here, twice… Audio

Jason de Caires Taylor is the founder and creator of several underwater museums. Motivated by concern over the health of the ocean and redressing climate change, his idea was to draw divers away from… Audio, Gallery

Boris Giltburg was encouraged to perform four encores at the Wallace International Piano Festival 2016 at the University of Auckland Music Theatre: Kreisler arr. Rachmaninov - Liebesleid Rachmaninov -… Audio

Boris Giltburg introduces and performs Piano Sonata No.8 in B flat Op.84 by Sergei Prokofiev at the Wallace International Piano Festival 2016 at the University of Auckland School of Music. Audio

Boris Giltburg performs Sonata No.4 in F Sharp by Alexander Scriabin at the Wallace International Piano Festival 2016 at the University of Auckland Music Theatre. Audio

Boris Giltburg introduces and performs his own arrangement of Dmitri Shostakovich's String Quartet No.8 in C minor at the Wallace International Piano Festival 2016 at the University of Auckland Music… Audio

Boris Giltburg plays Rachmaninov's Etudes-tableaux Op.33 at the Wallace International Piano Festival 2016 at the University of Auckland Music Theatre. Audio

Beyonce's response to a spontaneous haka performed backstage during the singer's 2013 New Zealand tour, was an online sensation - not entirely in a good way. Beyonce posted a video of the spontaneous… Video, Audio