Review Archive
Raewyn Whyte was Editor (Dance) for Theatreview and managed the dance reviewers network nationally until 2021. She has been a freelance arts writer since 1983, reviewing dance and theatre in New Zealand and Canada. She is a regular contributor to DANZ Magazine and Radio NZ arts programming, and was formerly a regular contributor to the NZ Herald and NZ Listener, and a weekly columnist for The Georgia Straight (Vancouver). A dancer who turned to writing about dance as a better way to understand the way choreography communicates meaning to an audience, she has an MA from Simon Fraser University, Burnaby BC, Canada where her research examined the development, scope and limits of contemporary dance criticism in North America, 1880-1990. She is a member of IAPWE (International Association of Professional Writers and Editors), an indexer, and remote copy editor for BookSprints Limited. She was a Theatreview Trustee and was an Executive member of the New Theatre Initiative who built Q Theatre in Auckland. She has been writing for Theatreview since 2009. Raewyn now lives in the Far North and is no longer reviewing dance performance.
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Welcome to the review archive.
Theatre and dance reviews since 2006.
Frame of Mind
Wellington
28/02/2014 - 01/03/2014
"Short snappy dance suite for dance collective debut..
PURPLE RAINBOW
Auckland
11/02/2014 - 15/02/2014
"Formulaic yet innovative..
Knock Knock
Auckland
12/12/2013 - 21/12/2013
"Whose [sic] there?..
"Frothily entertaining R16 must-share show..
KEEP/SELF
Christchurch, Auckland
01/10/2013 - 22/11/2013
"Meaningful encounters and gentle social commentary..
"Shared bill leaves room for elaboration..
Pacific Dance Choreolab 2013
Auckland
02/11/2013 - 02/11/2013
"Distinctive voices, sources, movement and styling..
Fatu Na Toto - Planted Seeds
Wellington, Auckland
18/02/2013 - 12/10/2013
"Samoan dance theatre a moving experience..
"Harnessing the old and the new to enlarge the world..
Tuakana PURE
Auckland
09/10/2013 - 09/10/2013
"Tuakana PURE, Fresh and Fault Lines at TEMPO..
"Tuakana: Pure..
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Footnote Dance Made in New Zealand 2013
Wellington, Hamilton, Auckland, New Plymouth
09/08/2013 - 15/10/2013
"Beautiful, unsettling and poignant..
"Colt, Carnival Hound and Fatu Na Toto at Tempo..
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Rotunda
Auckland
29/08/2013 - 01/09/2013
"Rotunda at Q Theatre..
"Virtual rotunda unites modern dance and brass band music..
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Swan Lake - The Royal NZ Ballet
Wellington, Dunedin, Christchurch, Auckland
18/07/2013 - 05/05/2024
"Freshness and immediacy of a newly minted work..
"Sumptuous production..
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K'RD STRIP - a place to stand
Auckland, Dunedin, Wellington, Hamilton, Edinburgh, Scotland
11/06/2013 - 31/08/2015
"Deeply moving, challenging and entertaining..
"Sassy and stylish, a touching tribute to a kiwi icon and the people who make it what it is..
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Short + Sweet Dance 2013 - Gala Final
Auckland
09/06/2013 - 09/06/2013
"Dancing with confidence and conviction..
YOU Dance - Auckland Youth Dance Festival 2013
Auckland
06/06/2013 - 07/06/2013
"Students put their best feet forward..
"A joyous occasion..
...with a stranger...
Auckland
07/06/2013 - 22/06/2013
"A particular kind of intimacy..
Short + Sweet Dance - Wildcards 2013
Auckland
01/06/2013 - 01/06/2013
"Extremely variegated Wildcards..
Like This, Like Us
Auckland
22/05/2013 - 25/05/2013
"Absorbingly satisfying, mostly..
TERROR PLANET
Auckland, Christchurch
21/05/2013 - 17/10/2015
"A whole new level of terror..
"Infectious pleasure..
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VIRTUOSI
Auckland, Wellington
20/03/2013 - 17/05/2013
"NZ dancers in their element, writ large..
"Eloquent and beautiful dance documentary..
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LEO: The Anti-Gravity Show
Wellington, Auckland, New Plymouth, Christchurch, Wairarapa, Nelson, Tauranga
13/03/2012 - 20/01/2019
"SEE IT!..
"A show of supreme intelligence..
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HOU 2013 - Atamira Dance Company
Auckland
08/03/2013 - 09/03/2013
"Adrenalin saturates dance mix..
Rifleman's Double Bill -- Terrain and Amanimal
Auckland
27/02/2013 - 03/03/2013
"Fringe dance offerings delicate, fierce and funny..
"Provocative art and very fabulous performers..
AN UNFORTUNATE WILLINGNESS TO AGREE
Auckland
20/02/2013 - 24/02/2013
"Dance in Week 1, Auckland Fringe Festival..
"A desire for something much more human and honest..
