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Student champions

Past and present students have made some impressive wins lately:

• Rayhan Langdana won the NZ Human Rights Commission - Race Unity Speech Award 2009
• Rayhan spoke at the Human Rights awards evening at Te Papa on Monday 24 August 2009 and received a standing ovation!  Read the article below...
  http://www.newswire.co.nz/2009/08/dear-god/
• Maria English won the World School's Debating Championship in Athens early in 2009 and won the world championship for the Cambridge AS Level English Literature.  Please see Maria's testimonial.

PERFORMANCE wORKSHOP dOCUMENTARY

Diane and Film Producer, Nina Densley, are working on a documentary about creative workshopping in Wellington for Triangle (Stratos) Television. A group of nine adults who are not actors nor performers completed a nine week (18 hour) group devised performance workshop and the documentary is about the group's creative journey together, and the discoveries they made along the way. Watch this space and Triangle Television for more information on their series on workshopping in Wellinton.

student success in leading role in a tv series

Diane's student, Georgia Rippin can be seen as the narrator on the home page of timetrackers website http://timetrackers.tv/cast/narrator/

This television series is due to be released in 2009.

WOMEN'S cIRCUS PAST Fringe festival Reviews

Diane performs regularly with the Women's Circus Aotearoa. 

The Women's Circus Aotearoa show The Triumphant Return - Suitcase Circus IV in which Diane performed with six other women received the following Fringe review.

We were invited to shout 'fantastico!!!' at particularly wonderful and exciting moments in the circus performance, and the delighted Sunday after audience enjoyed the poignant, funny and gasp-making circus acts, all woven intriguingly together by the circus-mistresses' story-telling. There was never a dull moment, and I heard two women in the 'ladies' afterwards saying 'wasn't that great' and 'yes i've seen them for several years and there are often different performers but they are always great' which sums it up really. FANTASTICO!!!

Background on the Women's Circus

Women's Circus Aotearoa is a charitable trust based in Wellington. The group has been performing and running workshops for the past 8 years, and is committed to encouraging other women to get involved and establish their own circus performance groups.

The Women's Circus is also available to entertain you at work or private functions.

Please contact Voice and Performance tel 4 385 2929 or email diane@voiceandperformance.co.nz for further information.