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Bernie Ng

Frontier Danceland’s “LEAP 2019”: Showcasing the Scholars of PULSE 2018/19

By Jocelyn Chng (930 words, four-minute read) LEAP is an annual platform from contemporary dance company Frontier Danceland, showcasing the young trainee dancers of the M1-Frontier Danceland PULSE Programme. The PULSE Programme is now in its ninth year, and since 2014 has been supported and co-presented by M1. It takes in aspiring dancers between the […]

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Liu Chen-hsiang

Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan: Between East and West, Heaven and Earth

Sustainability, remaining fresh and engaging is challenging in the present day, content-saturated global world. Lin Hwai-min and Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan are among a handful of contemporary dance companies that have achieved this over 45 years of performing an ever-changing, diverse and provocative repertoire. With multiple accolades and awarded doctorates to his name,

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SIFA 2019: Top Ten Picks

By Akanksha Raja The 42nd Singapore International Festival of Arts returns this year from 16 May to 2 June 2019. In its second year under Festival Director Gaurav Kripalani, it promises a larger smorgasbord of critically acclaimed international performances as well as Singaporean commissions. Watch the Festival’s official trailer:  Within one hour of the

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Weeky S.E.A. Radar: The Krossing Over Arts Festival in Vietnam; Thailand’s first transgender MP, filmmaker Tanwarin Sukkhapisit

ArtsEquator Radar features articles and posts drawn from local and regional websites and publications – aggregated content from outside sources, so we are exposed to a multitude of voices in the region. Here’s a round-up of content from this week, scoured and sifted from a range of regional news websites, blogs and media platforms, and

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Weekly S.E.A. Radar: Political Art ahead of Thailand’s elections; the 9th Cambodian International Film Festival

ArtsEquator Radar features articles and posts drawn from local and regional websites and publications – aggregated content from outside sources, so we are exposed to a multitude of voices in the region. Here’s a round-up of content from this week, scoured and sifted from a range of regional news websites, blogs and media platforms, and

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Of Math and Art: “A Game of Numbers” with NUS Arts Festival 2019

By Elaine Chiew (1195 words, five-minute read)  ‘A GAME OF NUMBERS’: Elaine Chiew interviews Mary Loh and Professor Victor Tan on the mathematically-themed NUS Arts Festival 2019 believed to be first-ever in Singapore. Organised by NUS Centre For the Arts, a fete of mathematics-themed arts engagements in dance, music, theatre and film awaits us in

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Arnaud Bouvier

“Learning”: Memory, Precision, Uncertainty in a 5-hour Durational Performance at National Gallery Singapore

By Jocelyn Chng (440 words, three-minute read) Part of National Gallery Singapore’s special programme Performing Spaces that explores how space can be a “living organism” facilitating encounters between performers and audiences, Learning takes place over two weekends in March 2019. Learning is choreographed by Liz Santoro and Pierre Godard, co-founders of French dance company Le

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Weekly S.E.A. Radar: 11th Yangon Photo Festival; Cambodia’s first feminist arts festival

ArtsEquator Radar features articles and posts drawn from local and regional websites and publications – aggregated content from outside sources, so we are exposed to a multitude of voices in the region. Here’s a round-up of content from this week, scoured and sifted from a range of regional news websites, blogs and media platforms, and

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Ian Whalen

What More Ballet Might Be: William Forsythe at da:ns series 2019

By Chan Sze-Wei (687 words, four-minute read) In 1987, William Forsythe created a ballet for the Paris Opera with a young Sylvie Guillem and Laurent Hilaire in the central duet. In the Middle, Somewhat Elevated is a high-octane incarnation of neoclassical ballet. Set to a pounding score, the ensemble silhouettes deliver razor-sharp pique unisons, while

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Weekly S.E.A. Radar: “More Beaches, Less Gamelan”, A Secret Singapore History of Drum and Bass

ArtsEquator Radar features articles and posts drawn from local and regional websites and publications – aggregated content from outside sources, so we are exposed to a multitude of voices in the region. Here’s a round-up of content from this week, scoured and sifted from a range of regional news websites, blogs and media platforms, and

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Weekly S.E.A. Radar: Digital Public Art in Hanoi, A Mobile Library in rural Cambodia

ArtsEquator Radar features articles and posts drawn from local and regional websites and publications – aggregated content from outside sources, so we are exposed to a multitude of voices in the region. Here’s a round-up of content from this week, scoured and sifted from a range of regional news websites, blogs and media platforms, and

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Weekly S.E.A Radar: From Cambodia’s psych rock festival to “Concept, Context, Contestation: Art and the Collective in Southeast Asia” in Yangon

ArtsEquator Radar features articles and posts drawn from local and regional websites and publications – aggregated content from outside sources, so we are exposed to a multitude of voices in the region. Here’s our first weekly round-up of content, scoured and sifted from a range of regional news websites, blogs and media platforms, and brought together

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Dian P Susilaradeya

“Dionysus”: Suzuki Tadashi Brings Vengeance to SIFA 2019

By Kathy Rowland (642 words, three-minute read) Suzuki Tadashi is one of the brand names in the international tour circuit, whose productions have earned critical praise and inspired several generations of audiences. A decade on from his last production in Singapore, Electra at the Singapore Arts Festival 2009, Suzuki Tadashi returns to Singapore in May

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Masked dance tradition rises from near extinction in Cambodia (via Reuters)

PHNOM PENH/BANGKOK (Reuters) – Cambodia’s centuries-old tradition of masked dance was nearly wiped out by the Khmer Rouge’s “Killing Fields” regime, but a handful of artists managed to keep it alive and are now working to pass it along to a new generation. Sun Rithy’s father and grandfather were both performers of the Lakhon Khol

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ArtsEquator’s Top 10 Articles of 2018

Before we plunge headlong into 2019, here’s a quick recap of some of our most-read articles on ArtsEquator, in ascending order. 10. Nathalie Johnston: Creating a home for contemporary art in Myanmar by Victoria Milko As part of ArtsEquator’s series covering independent spaces across Southeast Asia, Victoria Milko profiles Nathalie Johnston, founder of contemporary art space Myanm/art in Yangon.

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Asrari Nasir of Paradise Pictures

Traversing Two Divergent Paths in “BITTEN: return to our roots”

By Casidhe Ng (1,320 words, six-minute read) We move through the Kampong Bugis landscape throughout the performance, along patches of grass, the river, and brick-tiled pavements. A residue of dirt, sand, and mud clings to our soles, and the afternoon is afflicted with bouts of rain. The atmosphere invokes a stifling sensation brought upon by

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Weekly Picks: Malaysia (10–16 Dec 2018)

Paranormal, at RAW Art Space, 11 Dec, 8:30pm Award-winning musician Ng Chor Guan performs with Paranormal String Quartet from Germany. The night will showcase repertoire pieces by Paranormal String Quartet, which explores unique soundscapes of classic, jazz and contemporary; and Toccata Studio’s 20:20:Timescaper, a conceptual work of a journeying individual.  Admission by minimum donation of

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