Carmen

Thanks to the God of Media Tickets, we are going to the RNZB's acclaimed performance of Carmen tonight at the St James Theatre.

I'm still fighting jet lag but am sure a bunch of beautiful lithe young things in lycra flinging themselves across the stage will wake me up!

 

(Pic credit: Ross Brown/RNZB)

The Barre Boys

Late last year, I spent several hours, on several different days, at the Royal NZ Ballet Company's HQ interviewing three male ballet dancers.

My story on them is one of two I have in the February issue of North & South Magazine (click here to read).

   

Ballet

Today was all about giving praise to the God of Media Tickets - in particular, for a ticket to opening night of the Royal NZ Ballet's season of A Midsummer Night's Dream next Thursday night.

It's one of my favourite Shakespearean works and I'm dying to see how those clever clogs down the road have adapted it for the boys and girls of the ballet.

And yes, the Animator gets to come along too.

      

Dickens' A Christmas Carol

My interview with the lovely Daniel de Andrade, who crossed the world to direct A Christmas Carol for the Royal NZ Ballet, runs in today's NZ Herald (click here to read).

   

It's been a while between drinks

At least 15 years, by my count.

But when I was on a media trip to Melbourne back in August, the Woman's Weekly editor travelling with me persuaded me to start scribbling for them again.

These two pieces ran while I was in Europe - the first is a travel piece on Vienna (click here to read), the second a story on two child singers in the Royal NZ Ballet's production of A Christmas Carol (click here to read).

I have a few more travel pieces in the works for them, so it's good to be back.