02 December 2024, 4:04 PM
Wānaka Festival of Colour has announced two more performances for its 2025 programme.
The week-long festival, set to take place from March 29-April 6, celebrates the best of the arts world.
The first of the just-announced performances is ‘An Evening Without Kate Bush’.
The brainchild of Sarah-Louise Young and Rusell Lucas, this award-winning cult cabaret pays tribute to the music, fans and mythology of one of the most influential voices in pop music.
In a review The Times said it “delves into the phenomenal fan base (known as Fish People) that Kate Bush has inspired since she first topped the UK charts in 1978”.
The Times said the show featured “inventive stage-craft, a wildly wonderful voice and mesmerising performance from Sarah-Louise Young”.
The second pre-release, ‘Reimagining Mozart’, is by Robert Wiremu (Ngāti Kahungunu, Ngāti Tūwharetoa, Ngāti Porou).
It commemorates the tragedy of Air New Zealand Flight TE901 by reimagining Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Requiem, which was left unfinished at the time of his death in 1791.
Reimagining Mozart features the internationally-acclaimed Voices New Zealand Chamber Choir and a chamber ensemble of instrumentalists under the direction of Voices founder and music director Dr Karen Grylls.
Taking place every second year, Wānaka Festival of Colour is the flagship arts event for the Queenstown Lakes district.
Last month organisers announced its headline performance, Cirque Alfonse’s latest work ‘Animal’.
Founded in 2005 by Antoine Carabinier-Lépine and his father Alain, Cirque Alfonse is an intergenerational circus which hails from the little town of Saint-Alphonse-Rodriguez, Québec.
Cirque Alfonse, which is known for its high-flying antics and infectious energy, has created in Animal a surreal circus experience set to an infectious live soundtrack of ‘agricultural funk’.
Tickets are now available for all three performances. Find more information here.
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