Collaborating across art forms
Innovative, exciting and sometimes unexpected collaborations with actors, dancers, poets and visual artists have led the New Zealand String Quartet across boundaries in fascinating multi-disciplinary projects.
Find out more about a selection of these performances below.
The Kreutzer
A theatrical tour de force, The Kreutzer combines dance-theatre, live classical music and an interactive audio-visual feast. The work is based on an original idea by Peter Barber and has been adapted and directed by Sara Brodie. The Kreutzer is based on the famous Kreutzer Sonata by Beethoven, a novella by Tolstoy and Leoš Janácek’s first string quartet.
Haydn “Seven Last Words” – a multi-disciplinary presentation
Haydn’s Seven Last Words of Our Saviour on the Cross was commissioned for performance during Lent. Traditionally, the words or phrases (taken from all four gospels) are spoken, followed by a reading from the gospels, a homily or meditation on those words, then by the music. Since its composition, this work has continued to form a basis for presentations that invite audiences to consider the deeper issues that continue to affect mankind.
