by Raewyn Whyte
There are many ways to sum up a year. This is a summary in progress. Some things are easier to quantify so I am doing that bit first(!)
This list of “things I did” during 2015 will be slowly added to.
- copy edited/proofread and reported back on 12 books created through the Book Sprints process
- wrote the index for Performing Indigenous Culture on Stage and Screen. by Dr Marianne Schultz, forthcoming from Palgrave Macmillan (2016)
- proofread and/or copy edited a number of (mostly successful) grant applications and technical documents for five private clients
- wrote 22 performance reviews (dance and/or comedy) published in Danz Magazine and Theatreview
- live-broadcasted 3 dance reviews on Radio New Zealand Concert’s Upbeat, subsequently made available as podcasts
- edited and posted (and arranged and coordinated) 176 dance reviews for Theatreview, and managed the booking of Theatreview’s International Comedy Festival reviews in Auckland and Wellington
- distributed 1040 (or more) announcements to NZ Dance News mailing list
- continued as a member of the 3-person Artistic Advisory Panel for Footnote New Zealand Dance for a second year
- read 175 mystery novels, mostly as ebooks (up to 18 December 2015)
- saw 42 dance performances (plus 2 comedy and 5 theatre performances) and observed 15 or so works in progress at private showings