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Preview: 慢慢走 – Walk Slowly by RAW Moves

What is our everyday? This is the overarching question posed in the second iteration of interdisciplinary collaborators Ebelle Chong, Neo Hong Chin and Pat Toh’s 慢慢走 – Walk Slowly. As part of RAW Moves’ Run Another Way programme, Walk Slowly is an experiment in movement that reflects upon the rhythms and motions of everyday life. Walk Slowly takes advantage of the accessibility of the domestic, creating whole swaths of expression by … Continue reading Preview: 慢慢走 – Walk Slowly by RAW Moves

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Arts, Drama Centre Black Box, Intercultural Theatre Institute, Review, Singapore, Singapore Arts, Theatre., Theatre, Theatre Companies, Theatres, Writers, Xinyi S

Review: Leakage(s) and Anticoagulants by ITI

Based on Fyodor Dostoevsky’s classic novel Crime and Punishment, David Gaitan’s Leakage(s) and Anticoagulants is a biting psychological exploration on rational egotism and morality. A young intellectual, Raskolnikov (Tan Weiying), steals from and murders an unscrupulous old pawnbroker and due to a series of coincidences, manages to escape undetected. To Raskolnikov, this crime is motivated not by anything quite as plebeian as greed or desperation, … Continue reading Review: Leakage(s) and Anticoagulants by ITI

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Arts, Film, London, Preview, Review

Film Review: Dennis Skinner – Nature of the Beast dir. Daniel Draper

“The Beast of Bolsover” gets a media makeover in Dennis Skinner: Nature of the Beast. This is no nature doc though, and director Daniel Draper succinctly and skilfully peels back the skin of the beast to reveal a surprisingly heartfelt and intimate look at the man behind the Labour politician. Peppering the film with snippets of Skinner’s public appearances and speeches, it’s clear to viewers … Continue reading Film Review: Dennis Skinner – Nature of the Beast dir. Daniel Draper

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Arts, Review, SIFA 2017, Singapore, Singapore Arts, Theatre., Singapore International Festival of Arts, Theatre, Theatres, Victoria Theatre

SIFA 2017: Trojan Women by Ong Keng Sen and the National Theater of Korea (Review)

One thing that can be said about SIFA Festival Director Ong Keng Sen: whenever he attempts to create a new work, he always aims high and goes all the way, resulting at the very least in an unforgettable theatrical spectacle. With Trojan Women, Ong breathes new life into a centuries old Korean art form by applying it to an ancient Greek play. Based off Euripedes’ … Continue reading SIFA 2017: Trojan Women by Ong Keng Sen and the National Theater of Korea (Review)

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Review: The Vault dir. Dan Bush

In a world where originality in horror films has long since died, The Vault is perhaps one of the most fun films of late to mash it up with the heist film to create a truly unique love child that’s both weird and provides enough scares to make this one strange B-movie to catch in cinemas. Two sisters and their brother rob a bank to … Continue reading Review: The Vault dir. Dan Bush

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Arts, Dance with Me, Experimental, Review, Singapore, Singapore Arts, Theatre., Theatre

Naked and Unafraid: Stripping Down Ming Poon’s Controversial Undressing Room

Earlier this year during the annual M1 Fringe Festival, Singaporean artist Ming Poon was thrust into the spotlight when his work Undressing Room was removed from the lineup due to the sensitive nature of the work. Undressing Room felt like the perfect fit for this year’s theme of Art and Skin. After all, one would literally bare all during the work itself, undressing the artist from top to toe and … Continue reading Naked and Unafraid: Stripping Down Ming Poon’s Controversial Undressing Room

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Arts, Film, Preview, Review, Singapore

Review: In Time To Come dir. Tan Pin Pin

What would filmmaker Tan Pin Pin put in a time capsule? The answer is simple; all you have to do is watch her new film In Time To Come.The latest documentary from the director of Singapore GaGa (2005), Invisible City (2007) and the controversial To Singapore, With Love (2013), In Time To Come continues to chart Tan’s ongoing fascination with memory, documenting the undocumented and national identity, this time zooming in … Continue reading Review: In Time To Come dir. Tan Pin Pin

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Arts, Centre 42, Preview, Singapore, Singapore Arts, Theatre., Theatre, Theatres

Preview: Hot Pot Talk – Theatre and the Arts

This September, get ready for a truly unique theatrical experience with Hot Pot Talk: Theatre and the Arts. Conceptualized by Chong Gua Kee, and facilitated by arts practitioners Chang Ting Wei, Adib Kosnan and Shaiful Risan, Hot Pot Talk takes the form of interactive theatre and seeks to bridge the gap between arts practitioners and everyday, non-theatre going folk. In Hot Pot Talk, worlds will collide as artists meet … Continue reading Preview: Hot Pot Talk – Theatre and the Arts

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Arts, Dance with Me, Review, SIFA 2017, Singapore, Singapore Arts, Theatre., Singapore International Festival of Arts, SOTA Studio Theatre, Theatre, Theatres

SIFA 2017: And So You See… Our Honourable Blue Sky And Ever Enduring Sun… Can Only Be Consumed Slice By Slice… By Robyn Orlin (Review)

South African choreographer Robyn Orlin is known in her home country as ‘a permanent irritation’. The incredibly inventive Johannesburg-born artist has constantly pushed boundaries and bent genres in her multimedia dance work, often favourably compared to the idea of ‘photo collages’, or colourful visual masterpieces that carefully and certainly uniquely address some of the most difficult and complex issues that surround her country’s history and … Continue reading SIFA 2017: And So You See… Our Honourable Blue Sky And Ever Enduring Sun… Can Only Be Consumed Slice By Slice… By Robyn Orlin (Review)

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SIFA 2017: Lizard on the Wall by K. Rajagopal – SIFA Closing Film (Red Carpet Gala)

Whether you were lucky enough to be a part of the film itself at the O.P.E.N. earlier this year or are just hearing about it now, come down for the Red Carpet premiere of esteemed local director K. Rajagopal’s (A Yellow Bird) latest short film! Lizard on The Wall is hot off the editing suite, having been freshly shot and fully edited into a complete short … Continue reading SIFA 2017: Lizard on the Wall by K. Rajagopal – SIFA Closing Film (Red Carpet Gala)

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