Category: Review

Arts, Dance with Me, Review

Review: Elusive — a double bill by T.H.E Dance Company

T.H.E double bill explores themes of transience and extreme opposites. Dance is often seen as an art form that pushes performers to their physical limits, and if it’s one company that knows how to do that while shaping the human form into art in motion, it’s T.H.E Dance Company. Presenting a double bill as part of their 2024 edition of the cont·act Contemporary Dance Festival, … Continue reading Review: Elusive — a double bill by T.H.E Dance Company

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Review: Dance at Dusk (2024) by T.H.E Dance Company

Two excerpts that showcase the beauty of contemporary dance against the waterfront and Singapore skyline. T.H.E Dance Company’s Dance at Dusk series has long been a key component of their cont·act Contemporary Dance Festival, making contemporary dance feel accessible for first timers, complete with Grace Lee-Khoo and sign interpreter Shawn ensuring greater inclusivity, while also showing off the technical and creative elements honed to a … Continue reading Review: Dance at Dusk (2024) by T.H.E Dance Company

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Arts, Chinese Theatre, Review, Theatre

★★★★☆ Review: Titoudao (2024) by Toy Factory

Part memoir and part epic, Titoudao is a portrait of celebration and grief for the fading wayang scene.  How many of us have had a chance to catch a wayang performance in real life, on the streets as originally intended? With the amount of progress and modernisation Singapore has undergone over the years, wayang is but a lost art one can only experience in the … Continue reading ★★★★☆ Review: Titoudao (2024) by Toy Factory

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Arts, Review, Theatre

★★★★☆ Review: Dream of the Red Chamber by The Finger Players

Skilful mask work turning actors into living puppets amidst pseudo-poetic translation of Chinese classic. Cao Xueqin’s Dream of the Red Chamber has long been considered one of the greatest works of Chinese literature, as the novel passes social commentary, criticism, and philosophy over power, hierarchy and morality, as it follows the rise and fall in a family’s fortunes. Adapted countless times for stage and screen … Continue reading ★★★★☆ Review: Dream of the Red Chamber by The Finger Players

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Arts, Comedy, Review, Theatre

Review: Happy Ever Laughter 2024 by Dream Academy

Dream Academy highlights the power of a good laugh in latest edition of Happy Ever Laughter. By now, Dream Academy’s Happy Ever Laughter had made quite a name for itself. Each time the stand-up comedy revue makes a return, there’s strong anticipation as the crowds gather for a night of letting go, and allowing themselves to just kick back, relax and well, laugh. This time … Continue reading Review: Happy Ever Laughter 2024 by Dream Academy

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Arts, festival, Opera, Review, Singapore, Theatre

★★★★★ Review: Sun & Sea by Rugilė Barzdžiukaitė, Vaiva Grainytė & Lina Lapelytė

Intrusive thoughts during a beach holiday at the end of the world. In our modern world of stresses and being constantly online, how much can we say we can truly detach ourselves from work and take a relaxing holiday? For Lithuanian artists Rugilė Barzdžiukaitė, Vaiva Grainytė and Lina Lapelytė, it seems that any vacation will be bound to be filled with intrusive thoughts, and unexpectedly, … Continue reading ★★★★★ Review: Sun & Sea by Rugilė Barzdžiukaitė, Vaiva Grainytė & Lina Lapelytė

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Arts, Pangdemonium, Review, Singapore, Theatre

★★★★★ Review: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Pangdemonium!

Twisted mind games at play in this deliciously dark tour de force of what makes and breaks relationships. In a pressure cooker environment like Singapore, it can become incredibly stressful to live up to the ideals set out by society, whether it’s making it in one’s career, or to get married, have children and construct the image of a perfect happy family. But when the … Continue reading ★★★★★ Review: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Pangdemonium!

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Arts, festival, Review, Singapore

★★★☆☆ Review: Wilful Machine by Genevieve Chua

Pondering a future of machine self-awareness, as it reflects on humanity. If machines could talk, what might they say of humans – their makers? Genevieve Chua’s new work Wilful Machine imagines and brings that to life, using a combination of architecture, multimedia and dance, as it premiered at the Singapore International Festival of Arts 2024. Situated at Artspace @ Helutrans at Tanjong Pagar Distripark, audiences … Continue reading ★★★☆☆ Review: Wilful Machine by Genevieve Chua

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Arts, festival, Review, Singapore

★★★★☆ Review: Leonardo! A Wonderful Show About A Terrible Monster by Manual Cinema

Demystifying the sorcery of cinema while capturing the magic of puppetry and animation. In a world where kids are almost constantly glued to the screen – how does one keep them entertained in the theatre? By bringing the screen to the stage of course. That is the modus operandi of American company Manual Cinema, who creates films live onstage for their audiences, and in an … Continue reading ★★★★☆ Review: Leonardo! A Wonderful Show About A Terrible Monster by Manual Cinema

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★★★★☆ Review: SUARA / Oro Rua by Safuan Johari and Eddie Elliott

Unearthing the voices of a distant past. Safuan Johari is a musician and composer from Singapore. Eddie Elliott is a dancer and choreographer from New Zealand. While the two artists’ practices seem rather distant, there is a link that makes them surprisingly good collaborators with each other – their shared respect for their own cultural inheritance, and a keen interest in the land we walk … Continue reading ★★★★☆ Review: SUARA / Oro Rua by Safuan Johari and Eddie Elliott

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