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

Preview: The Taste of Water by Bound Theatre

Formed in 2011, young, self-funded local theatre company Bound Theatre has produced five productions over the seven years since their inception. Aiming to create honest theatre to tell personal stories about pain and memory, the company will now be presenting their sixth production this August, a completely original devised physical theatre piece titled The Taste of Water. Directed and written by Wee Xuan Yi and Teng Zi … Continue reading Preview: The Taste of Water by Bound 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)

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 face with. But the truth is, contemporary dance is simply a representation of the human spirit in a different language, each dancer bringing to stage their own brand of physicality and movement, and with a … Continue reading M1 CONTACT Contemporary Dance Festival 2018: An Interview with Festival Director Kuik Swee Boon and Festival Manager Athelyna Swee

100 and 100 More Festival: Into The Blue Forest (Review)

An immersive, interactive meditation on solitude and friendship opens the inaugural 100 and 100 More Festival Jeffrey Tan’s Into The Blue Forest charts a day in the life of an ordinary, old tree (Beatrice Chien) as she encounters flora and fauna living in the forest as they interact with her, from to a wisecracking spider all the way to a sly snake. Midway through, she chances … Continue reading 100 and 100 More Festival: Into The Blue Forest (Review)

Re: Imagined – Goodman Open House 2018 Has Artmaking Go Green

Go on an art adventure this weekend with all the family with Goodman Arts Centre’s annual open house! Themed Re: Imagined this year, the family-friendly festival will feature over 20 different workshops and performances for all ages, this time with a focus on embracing environmentally sustainable ways to create and present art. Over at Block O, be enchanted by larger than life cardboard sculptures created by cardboard artist … Continue reading Re: Imagined – Goodman Open House 2018 Has Artmaking Go Green

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 with Esplanade – Theatres on the Bay, this year’s Festival runs from 9th June to 5th August 2018 and presents both bold, new and original works, as well as restagings of previous, acclaimed pieces, spanning a total … Continue reading Preview: M1 CONTACT Contemporary Dance Festival 2018

100 and 100 More Festival: An Interview with Jeffrey Tan (Into The Blue Forest)

For the opening show of the Artground’s inaugural 100 and 100 More Festival, local theatre practitioner Jeffrey Tan has been commissioned to produce an all new work. Based off illustrated children’s book The Blue Forest, which Jeffrey wrote around 6 years ago with illustrations by Italian theatre director illustrator Dario Moretti, Into The Blue Forest promises an immersive experience for audiences aged 4 – 8 as they explore the … Continue reading 100 and 100 More Festival: An Interview with Jeffrey Tan (Into The Blue Forest)

Preview: 100 and 100 More Festival at the Artground

“The child is made of one hundred. The child has a hundred languages a hundred hands a hundred thoughts a hundred ways of thinking of playing, of speaking.” With a title inspired by Loris Malaguzzi’s poem The Hundred Languages of Children, Artground is proud to present the inaugural 100 and 100 More Festival For Young Audiences, presenting a series of the best international children’s productions … Continue reading Preview: 100 and 100 More Festival at the Artground

Preview: 2042 by Patch and Punnett

It’s better late than never as Singapore’s newest theatre company on the block makes their debut at the end of December at Goodman Arts Centre. Described as ‘by millennials, for millennials’, Patch and Punnet bursts onto the scene with two all new plays in 2042, imagining a not-so-distant-future set in a post-apocalyptic world. The millennials have unexpectedly, survived a great war twenty four years back that destroyed … Continue reading Preview: 2042 by Patch and Punnett