As a newbie in Auckland in 2006, live performance and theatre maker Stephen Bain discovered he had to be 'in the know' and hunt the most interesting work down to church halls, community venues or warehouses.
So this year, in collaboration with The EDGE, he brought ‘these seemingly disparate groups together’, bound by genre-blurring, for the New Performance Festival. Read More »
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