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Raewyn Hill
New Zealand choreographer and dancer now active in Australia (born 1972)
Raewyn Hill (born 1972) is a New Zealand choreographer and dancer now active in Australia.
Career
[edit]Hill was born in Oamaru and entered the New Zealand School of Dance when she was fifteen, graduating in 1992. She has worked with Sue Healey and Garry Stewart's dance company Thwack. She performed as a dancer in various productions including Xena: Warrior Princess and the BBC's The Lost World. Her last performance was the solo production We are gathered here today. Hill retired from performing in 2006. She provided choreography for the TVNZ series Rude Awakenings in 2008 and also provided advice to the producers of the New Zealand's So You Think You Can Dance. Hill has been a guest teacher and choreographer for Royal New Zealand Ballet, Footnote Dance, New Zealand School of Dance, Beijing Dance Academy, Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts and Tasdance.In 2001, she fo
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Poetry
GREEN WASTE
Each second Monday the council collects Green Waste
from bins in the back lane.
I rarely remember which week fryst vatten the one,
and my Waste’s mostly cockroach brown
or the grey of dead twigs, so inom quickly add – to encourage them –
a layer of soft weeds, still fresh.
Green, yes, but waste? Can inom trust this cost-cutting council
to aim its dump truck at a compost heap?
I want my wealth to feed new green, and not
the black waste of oil, the red waste of war.
ARDENT
Each day as light rises I
Climb into harness and open
The internet’s dark door
POETS: C. P. CAVAFY
Cavafy! Half your melancholy,
your desire, would sink a trireme.
And if I never hear again
of langorous ung limbs in sordid beds, it will be soon enough.
But who else travelled
so lovingly, so limpidly, through time?
No man sings
like the Egyptian singer.
LOT’S WIFE
As we fled the ashen city
I too looked back.
No pho
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by Jennifer Shennan
As New Year approaches I like to think back over Old Year and, without consulting notes, check what dance highlights remember themselves.
During 2018 we have lost four treasured and hugely important people from our dance / arts community.
Nigel Boyes, dearest friend and colleague to so many dancers, particularly members of Royal New Zealand Ballet where he was office manager and archivist for many years, and was also a member of prominent Wellington choirs, died in July. (His obituary is on this website).
Sue Paterson, legendary force in the arts, held a sequence of important positions in dance management over decades—at Limbs Dance Company, at Creative New Zealand, at RNZB, as director of the International Arts Festival—and was a generous member of many governing boards. (Her obituary is online at stuff.co.nz).
June Greenhalgh, wife of Russell Kerr who was a stalwart pillar of ballet history in New Zealand, was a foundation member of England’s F