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, […]
On Tour: Petrina Kow’s Walking In Beauty Goes To London (produced by Blue Bean Productions)
LONDON/SINGAPORE – After a successful premiere at the M1 Singapore Fringe Festival 2018, Petrina Kow‘s Walking in Beauty is making a trip up to London, featuring new stories and new cast members in […]
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 […]
M1 Singapore Fringe Festival 2018: Does This Work For You? by The Nervous System (Review)
The Nervous System gives theatrical form to the voice of the oppressed in this promising project about workplace discrimination. There’s a reason they call it ‘the daily grind’ – work […]
M1 Singapore Fringe Festival 2018: Displaced by Ground Cover Theatre (Review)
Ground Cover Theatre tackles the refugee crisis in an intimate, polished piece brimming with theatrical magic. In Displaced, Ground Cover Theatre boldly tackles the topic of the refugee crisis in a […]
M1 Singapore Fringe Festival 2018: One Thousand Millennials Crying by Kenneth Chia and Mitchell Fang (Review)
An absurdist storm of buzzwords and punchlines that feels birthed straight from the mouth of a millenial social media influenza. In Kenneth Chia and Mitchell Fang’s new play One Thousand Millennials […]
M1 Singapore Fringe Festival 2018: Walking In Beauty by Petrina Kow (Review)
Petrina Kow showcases the empathetic effect of storytelling in this simple yet impactful session from six incredibly beautiful women. Petrina Kow is a woman who has been blessed with the […]
M1 Singapore Fringe Festival 2018: Forked by Jo Tan (Review)
Jo Tan tackles racism and identity in this story about a Singaporean fish out of water. Jo Tan’s playwriting debut is a simple yet familiar story of one Singaporean girl […]
M1 Singapore Fringe Festival 2018: The Most Massive Woman Wins by Mitchell Productions Inc. & Chopt Logic Productions (Review)
Mudwrestling meets body image issues as this production weighs in on the way society has taught women to be perceived and to perform. Since the dawn of time, humans have […]
M1 Singapore Fringe Festival 2018: Attempts: Singapore by Rei Poh (Review)
There’s no need for any hints as to how much we enjoyed this impeccably produced participatory theatre experience. In a world of innovative theatrical experiences, you often come across too […]
M1 Singapore Fringe Festival 2018: The Neighbor’s Grief Is Greener by Emanuella Amichai (Review)
Stepford wives from 1950s America get a macabre, surreal twist in this bloody good show. There are times we find ourselves wondering when exactly the seeds of feminism were sown. […]
M1 Singapore Fringe Festival 2018: A Beginner’s Guide To Walking In Beauty with Petrina Kow and Anita Kapoor (Interview)
Petrina Kow is a storyteller. And we don’t mean that metaphorically – she is, after all, a co-founder of storytelling platform Telling Stories Live, and as a vocal and speech trainer, not […]
M1 Singapore Fringe Festival 2018: An Interview with Kenneth Chia and Mitchell Fang (One Thousand Millennials Crying)
Lazy. Entitled. Selfish. Shallow. Narcissistic. These are probably some of the most common generalizations about the millennial generation (loosely defined as those born between the late 80s and early 2000s). […]
M1 Singapore Fringe Festival 2018: An Interview with Rei Poh (Attempts: Singapore)
Rei Poh is a geek who likes video games. And being the innovative theatremaker he is, it makes complete sense that he’d apply it to his work as well. We […]
