Two dance works by Malaysian choreographers & performed by Australian dancers
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Two dance works by Australian choreographers & performed by Malaysian
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Bodies Across Boundaries
In the studio and on stage, we reach across the seas, building bridges with
our bodies, and showing that differences of language, background, and home
are no barrier to moving together.
'Bodies Across Boundaries' presents two new contemporary dance works by
acclaimed Malaysian choreographers Amy Len and Suhaili Ahmad
Kamil, performed by a group of powerful young Australian dancers. The show
also includes two contemporary dance works performed by talented Malaysian
dancers including Hii Ing Fung, Stephanie Lim, An Nur Azhar, and Bilqis
Hijjas, and created by Australian artists who have been in residence at
Rimbun Dahan.
8.30pm Friday 22 April, Saturday 23 April
3pm Sunday 24 April
The Actors Studio, Rooftop at Lot 10 Shopping Centre, Jalan Sultan Ismail
Tickets: RM 35
Call for bookings or walk in to
The Actors Studio @ Lot 10 Tel : 603-2142 2009 / 603-2143 2009
klpac @ Sentul Park Tel : 603-4047 9000 / 603-4047 9010
Presented by the Dance Programme at Rimbun Dahan
Supported by the Australia Malaysia Institute and the Australian High
Commission
For more information, contact Bilqis Hijjas bilqis@rimbundahan.org
or +60173103769.
Works in the Program
STRINGS is a multidisciplinary work involving Australian visual artist Rochelle Haley, who will be making live drawings in response to the movements of dancers on stage. The dancers themselves will respond to the projection of the drawings as they develop, creating an intricate web of causal connections between the two dimensions of the paper and the three dimensions of the bodies on stage.
SHUTTLING is a dance work choreographed by award-winning Malaysian choreographer Amy Len and performed by the three Australian dancers currently resident at Rimbun Dahan, as well as three of Amy's dancers from Kwang Tung Dance Company. The work is about the unconscious memories that are aroused when people from different backgrounds meet.
DAZZLE was created by Australian choreographer Angela Goh for three Malaysian dancers -- Hii Ing Fung, Stephanie Lim and Jojo Wong, two of whom she worked with when she was first in residence at Rimbun Dahan in 2009. The work explores the idea of camouflage and deception, being seen and not seen, and how hiding the face makes someone inhuman.
WONDERWHATTALAND has been created by hit Malaysian choreographer Suhaili Micheline with the three Malaysian dancers. A crazy trip inspired by Alice in Wonderland, it includes rap songs made of the names of Malaysian food: gulp, slurp, chomp! Pulling out the bizarre in the most everyday things, Wonderwhattaland will be a work that sends the audience out giggling but thinking. | 
