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Preview: Singapore International Festival of Arts 2024 – They Declare

A beach bathed in perpetual sunlight. The pursuit of a puppet whale across stormy seas. A woman caught in an endless loop. A multiverse of E.M. Forster’s characters coming together. These are just a few of the highlights revealed yesterday at the launch of the Singapore International Festival of Arts (SIFA) 2024 programme. Organised by Arts House Limited (AHL) and commissioned by the National Arts … Continue reading Preview: Singapore International Festival of Arts 2024 – They Declare

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Huayi 2024: An Interview with choreographer Chou Shu-yi on Taiwan-Singapore collaboration ‘Dance a Dance from My Body’

For a co-production that’s been engineered by two of the biggest arts centres in their respective cities, the Esplanade – Theatres on the Bay and National Kaohsiung Center for the Arts Weiwuying, choreographer Chou Shu-yi has been given plenty of free rein to explore a rather unique collaborative style of work for his upcoming production Dance a Dance from My Body, which makes its premiere … Continue reading Huayi 2024: An Interview with choreographer Chou Shu-yi on Taiwan-Singapore collaboration ‘Dance a Dance from My Body’

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T.H.E Dance Company opens London’s Coronet Theatre Spring Season with triple bill ‘Rethinking Co-Existence’

Come February, Singapore contemporary dance company The Human Expression (T.H.E) is headed to London to perform a triple bill of work to open The Coronet Theatre’s Spring Season. It’s an honour that’s well-deserved – after all, the last time they were in the UK capital in 2022, they performed their production Phenoumenon to sold-out audiences and rave reviews, and look set to impress once again. … Continue reading T.H.E Dance Company opens London’s Coronet Theatre Spring Season with triple bill ‘Rethinking Co-Existence’

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★★☆☆☆ Review: Thom Paine (Based on Nothing) by Edith Podesta, Yarra Ileto, and NAFA

Expansion of one-man show into ensemble piece becomes confusing mess. When Thom Pain (based on nothing) premiered in 2004, the one-man show received rave reviews and was described to be unlike anything else at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe that year. It’s a rather odd but endearing sounding script, wherein the long-suffering protagonist recounts the story of a bee sting, a boy with a dog that … Continue reading ★★☆☆☆ Review: Thom Paine (Based on Nothing) by Edith Podesta, Yarra Ileto, and NAFA

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★★★★☆ Review: aMoratorium by J’Sun Howard

Haunted by history and healing through community and care. Merely being a minority in a country can feel like a daily battle, constantly waking up and dreading the little microaggressions or worse one might face in the day. Not only that, but as a Black person in America, one also bears the gravity of Black history in one’s very existence, carrying it in the body, … Continue reading ★★★★☆ Review: aMoratorium by J’Sun Howard

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Review: Love All Around by Abhaya

Stories of love told through bharatanatyam. Love is a mystery, and endlessly fascinating, inspiring countless films, music and stories. Co-created and performed by Krithika Soma, Madhuri Suresh, and Varsha Vishwanath, Abhaya’s Love All Around is a brand new bharatanatyam creation that explores the nature of love, depicting the experiences of unassuming strangers who discover and learn to understand the power of love.  Directed by Ponnamma … Continue reading Review: Love All Around by Abhaya

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M1 Singapore Fringe Festival 2024: An Interview with playwright Raimi Safari and director Mohd Fared Jainal of ‘Oo-Woo’

Few Singaporeans would be unfamiliar with the cry of the Asian koel bird, with its signature ‘oo-woo’ call heard across the island in the early morning light. But in The Necessary Stage’s new play, set to premiere during the 2024 M1 Singapore Fringe Festival, that bird holds far more emotional significance than most of us might realise, as it leads to a tale of family … Continue reading M1 Singapore Fringe Festival 2024: An Interview with playwright Raimi Safari and director Mohd Fared Jainal of ‘Oo-Woo’

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M1 Singapore Fringe Festival 2024: An Interview with the creators of Matter.Less’ forum theatre show ‘Here Where You Were’

In the 2020s, suicide rates in Singapore rose to an all-time high. Is it because we live in a fast-paced, high stress nation? Is it that it often feels like there is no way out? And even when a suicide is completed, can we summon up enough courage to go past the shame and guilt surrounding it to talk about the aftermath, and how we … Continue reading M1 Singapore Fringe Festival 2024: An Interview with the creators of Matter.Less’ forum theatre show ‘Here Where You Were’

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M1 Singapore Fringe Festival 2024: An Interview with Karine Ponties, choreographer of absurdist dance ‘SAME SAME’

Does work set us free, or does it chain us? For far too many people, between being bored to death or burnt out, it’s the latter, and the very concept of labour for survival brings to mind questions about absurd routines and the complex relationship colleagues have with each other, from resemblance and dissemblance, domination and submission, superficiality and depth. From Belgian dance company Dame … Continue reading M1 Singapore Fringe Festival 2024: An Interview with Karine Ponties, choreographer of absurdist dance ‘SAME SAME’

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M1 Singapore Fringe Festival 2024: An Interview with director Edith Podesta and choreographer Yarra Illeto on ‘THOM PAIN (based on nothing)’

To span the length of the human experience in a single production sounds like an impossibility, but when THOM PAIN (based on nothing) premiered at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2004, critics remarked that the deceptively simple one-man show about a man and his suffering in life. Now, that show will be performed in Singapore, by students of Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts’ BA (Hons) … Continue reading M1 Singapore Fringe Festival 2024: An Interview with director Edith Podesta and choreographer Yarra Illeto on ‘THOM PAIN (based on nothing)’

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