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, […]
Review: Love and Duty – Mozart’s Il Re Pastore by The Opera People
Mozart gets funky in this accessible new interpretation that sets Il Re Pastore in a nightclub. Opera often gets a bad rap for being stuffy and inaccessible to the general […]
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 […]
M1 CONTACT Contemporary Dance Festival 2018: An Interview with Festival Director Kuik Swee Boon and Festival Manager Athelyna Swee
Often assumed to be esoteric, avant garde or incomprehensible, reserved only for the educated, upper echelons of society, contemporary dance can be a daunting art form to come face to […]
Preview: M1 CONTACT Contemporary Dance Festival 2018
The M1 CONTACT Contemporary Dance Festival returns in 2018 with its 9th edition this June, bringing in shows from both local and regional independent dance artists. Presented in collaboration […]
SIFA 2018: OCD Love by L-E-V Dance Company (Review)
Mesmerising, muscular bodies tangle with the simultaneous pain and allure of the mental condition. Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, or OCD for short, is characterised as a state by which a person’s […]
Singapore Art Week 2018: Progress – The Game of Leaders by Sam Lo
Sam Lo has long moved past her moniker of the ‘Sticker Lady’. The contemporary artist has been working incredibly hard over the last few years and gained recognition beyond her […]
Review: We, The Singaporeans by The Royal Dance-Off Company
Contemporary dance often has the unfortunate association with descriptors like ‘enigmatic’ and ‘abstract’, and too easily, one fears walking out of the theatre having understood nothing but beautiful movements and […]
Review: Love at First Squat <3 by The Passionate Dancing Elders
Sometimes, life throws you one of the best coincidences you can hope to find. Before we begin this review, here’s a little backstory: after catching a show at the Esplanade, […]
SIFA 2017: And So You See… Our Honourable Blue Sky And Ever Enduring Sun… Can Only Be Consumed Slice By Slice… By Robyn Orlin (Preview)
When one thinks of SIFA, one undoubtedly thinks of weird, experimental works that push the very definition of what makes art itself, and continually expand the medium to reach all […]
