Draped around trees. Crawling through sculptures. Underwater. Underground?
Experience contemporary dance as you've never seen it before!
In the midst of a 14-acre indigenous Malaysian garden, and in the shade of contemporary and traditional architecture, seven emerging choreographers will present a collection of site-specific contemporary dance works.
In conjunction with the Art for Nature visual art exhibition, whose theme this year is Tanah Air, these works will lure us to unusual venues, or challenges us to view familiar places in new ways. Chance and circumstance -- the weather, quality of light, ambient noise, mood of the crowd -- will shape our experience.
Date: Saturday & Sunday, 23 & 24 May, 4-7pm
Venue: In and around the gardens and architecture of Rimbun Dahan, Km. 27 Jln Kuang, Kuang, Selangor. See map and directions
Free Entrance
1. Octagon in the Round
Informed by
environment, this solo will be created and
danced simultaneously. One body will move in
response to current experiences of space, sound,
architecture, audience, movement and texture,
thus constructing a solo in and of the present
moment.
Performed by Angela Goh, Rimbun Dahan
resident choreographer.
2. Orpheus X
When Orpheus' wife Eurydice was
killed by the bite of a serpent, he went down to
the underworld to bring her back. His songs
were so beautiful that Hades finally agreed to
allow Eurydice to return to the world of the
living, under one condition: Orpheus must not
look back as he was conducting her to the
surface. Just before the pair reached the upper
world, Orpheus looked back, and Eurydice
slipped back into the netherworld once again.
One last word -- “Farewell…” -- then she was
gone forever.
Choreographed by Low Shee Hoe.
Performed by Khor Beng Hooi, Kyo Hong Xi
Fan, Lee Wey Jiun, Lian Bee Ngo, Saw Li Wai,
Stephanie Tan Lei Mooi and Woon Li Hwa from
Charlie Tan Dance Theatre.
3. Can You Dance Better Than
A Fourth Grader?
Ever thought you'd be
challenged in dance by a 4th grader? Learn a quick
sketch of steps from these young kids. Don't be shy
and clumsy as they will be impatient and
disappointed! Then the Cool Club shows you how
it's done, the weird, wacky teenagers keeping
everything cool simply by 'wassup-ing' the
environment.
Choreographed by Suhaili Micheline binti Ahmad
Kamil.
Performed by Cheryl Soh, Erica Liew, Farah Sofea
Nadzri, Falihah Asyiqin Nadzri, Wan Aiqha Liyana,
Janice Yong, Siti Amellia, Teo May Jean, Ng Xin
Ying, Ayu Azril Ali and Mohd Azizi Mansor.
4. Quintessence
In classical philosophy, four
elements - air, fire, water, earth - explain the
patterns of nature. The realm of human life makes a
fifth.
Choreographed and performed by Rathimalar
Govindarajoo.
5. House Awakening
What does a house see, when
its shutters are open? Or hear, when they are closed?
Do houses sleep? Do houses dream?
Choreographed by Bilqis Hijjas.
Performed by Jojo Wong, Janice Yong, Regina
Toyad, Jennifer Lai, and Yuka Tanaka.
6. Infantaneous
The spontaneous movements
created and inspired by bebe and then some.
Performed by Elaine Pedley and Keeva Craig.
Music by Hardesh Singh.
7. Lompatan Cemerlang
Athletes shouldn't have
all the fun. Jom lompat!
Directed by Fahmi Fadzil.
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Photos by Antradika Hamzah. |
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