Preview: Swan Lake by New Adventures and Julie’s Bicycle (UK Tour)

LONDON – Iconic British dance company New Adventures and green charity Julie’s Bicycle have got a good thing going; they’ve managed to create the first Creative Green Certified Tour with their new tour of Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake. The companies were also conferred the Creative Green Pioneer Award in the second annual Creative Green Awards which celebrates the many outstanding organisations taking action on climate and the environment. Julie’s Bicycle … Continue reading Preview: Swan Lake by New Adventures and Julie’s Bicycle (UK Tour)

M1 CONTACT Contemporary Dance Festival 2018: M1 Open Stage + DiverCity (Review)

Slick, skilful choreographies that explore our relationship with our space, each other and our very selves.  Dance has always been seen as one of the most purest forms of art, the human expression choreographed into physical movement that requires no explanation to feel each action onstage. With M1 Open Stage + Divercity, the 2018 M1 CONTACT Contemporary Dance Festival presents a series of promising works, both … Continue reading M1 CONTACT Contemporary Dance Festival 2018: M1 Open Stage + DiverCity (Review)

Review: A Samsui Love Story by Project Plait X Tung Lok (Singapore Food Festival 2018)

Melding good food, a good story and good dance into a single palatable performance. While theatrical dining experiences have become increasingly popular in the last few years, mixing dance and dining is a road far less travelled, perhaps owing to how abstract contemporary dance can be, making it difficult to form an immediate link to the menu at hand. But with years of experience under … Continue reading Review: A Samsui Love Story by Project Plait X Tung Lok (Singapore Food Festival 2018)

Preview: RawGround – Competition by RAW Moves

After a successful start to their season earlier this year, RAW Moves continues their 2018/2019 theme of Competition with the return of their annual creative platform showcase: RawGround. Unlike X&Y, however, RawGround takes on a very different methodology and aim in what it hopes to achieve. With the platform, RAW Moves offers its company dancers and interns a professional space and guidance in which to fully explore conceptual … Continue reading Preview: RawGround – Competition by RAW Moves

Pesta Raya 2018: Alkesah (Review)

A colourful romp of unbridled fun through Malay folklore opens Pesta Raya 2018. The Malay oral tradition is a rich one, full of colourful characters and unforgettable stories. But as these tales become increasingly hard to hear in the traditional form, so must they evolve with the times to find a new audience. That evolution can be seen in the 2018 Pesta Raya – Malay … Continue reading Pesta Raya 2018: Alkesah (Review)

Review: dead was the body till i taught it how to move by Bhumi Collective

Proof that theatre provides a safe space for anyone to tell the most heartwrenching of stories. There’s a saying that all stories are worth telling, if only one knows how to tell them. In dead was the body till i taught it how to move, Bhumi Collective presents the story of an ordinary boy going through extraordinary trauma and grief. While going through university in Warwick, ex-Ministry … Continue reading Review: dead was the body till i taught it how to move by Bhumi Collective

Pesta Raya 2018: An Interview with Zulfadli ‘Big’ Rashid (Alkesah)

Just as one’s ears prick up for a story the moment one hears the magical words ‘once upon a time’, storytellers of Malay folklore begin their tales with an equally powerful opener – ‘alkesah’, or ‘as the story goes’. And celebrating that long history of oral tradition then, is the aptly titled Esplanade commissioned musical Alkesah, opening the Esplanade’s 2018 Pesta Raya – Malay Festival of the … Continue reading Pesta Raya 2018: An Interview with Zulfadli ‘Big’ Rashid (Alkesah)

An Interview with the Creatives of dead was the body till i taught it how to move

Bhumi Collective has only been around for a couple of years, but they’ve already been showcasing a variety of genres  dipping their toes into various genres of shows, ranging from fringe theatre to lecture performance. Now, they’ll be presenting an all new, original, interdisciplinary work, co-created by a number of young theatre makers both familiar and new to the local scene in the premiere of dead … Continue reading An Interview with the Creatives of dead was the body till i taught it how to move

Preview: PANCHA – Flowers Don’t Bloom All The Time by Maya Dance Theatre

Local dance company Maya Dance Theatre returns this August with the third instalment of their successful PANCHA programme. Started in 2016, PANCHA literally translates to ‘five’, and the dance series draws inspiration from expounding upon five female archetypes in relation to the five elements – Wind, Fire, Earth, Water and Aether, and has previously explored issues such as the patriarchy and maternal pain due to loss of … Continue reading Preview: PANCHA – Flowers Don’t Bloom All The Time by Maya Dance Theatre

M1 CONTACT Contemporary Dance Festival 2018: EARTH and Filled with sadness, the old body attacks by T.H.E Dance Company (Review)

A double-bill of movement heavy pieces open the 2018 M1 CONTACT Contemporary Dance Festival. T.H.E Dance Company opened the 2018 M1 CONTACT Contemporary Dance Festival with a double bill of work. Featuring ‘EARTH’ by Humanhood and ‘Filled with sadness, the old body attacks’ by Kim Jae Duk, the festival kicked off to a strong start with both these thought-provoking, physically challenging pieces.  EARTH by Humanhood In … Continue reading M1 CONTACT Contemporary Dance Festival 2018: EARTH and Filled with sadness, the old body attacks by T.H.E Dance Company (Review)