Up a tree. In a sculpture. Underwater. Underground.
Come and experience contemporary dance as you've never seen it before!
3-8pm
Saturday & Sunday, 7-8 August 2010
Rimbun Dahan, Km. 27 Jalan Kuang, Kuang, 48050, Selangor.
Entrance free to the general public.
In the midst of a 14-acre indigenous Malaysian garden, and in the shade of contemporary and traditional architecture, 13 Malaysian and international choreographers will present a collection of site-specific contemporary dance works for Dancing in Place.
This year’s theme for Dancing in Place is Cross-Pollination. It encourages choreographers to consider how difference – working with artists from other disciplines, working with people from other cultures or abilities, or working in new environments – creates the potential for rich and vigorous hybridities.
As Rimbun Dahan is a private arts centre not generally open to the general public, this is also an unusual opportunity to experience all the delights Rimbun Dahan has to offer, including the medicinal herb garden, contemporary architecture by Hijjas Kasturi, relocated and refurbished traditional houses from Perak and Penang, and indoor and outdoor visual art by local and international artists.
Performers at Dancing in Place this year include Kristine Nilsen Oma (Norway), Elysa Wendi (Singapore), Donna Miranda (Philippines) and Scarlet Yu (Hong Kong), as well nine choreographers from Malaysia including Rathimalar Govindarajoo, Gan Chih Pei, Nurulakmal Abdul Wahid, Muhaini Ahmad, Leng Poh Gee, Fahmi Fadzil and January Low.
Rememberto bring your own water, mosquito repellent, light clothing and comfortable footwear. Refreshments will be provided, but you can also bring your own picnic!
For more information about the event and directions to Rimbun Dahan, contact Bilqis Hijjas 017 310 3769 or
Please note:
This event is not wheelchair accessible.
Rimbun Dahan contains areas of open water. Please do not allow your children to play unsupervised.
Schedule
Time
Item
3pm
Arrival & introduction
3.15pm
The Campus Thought
Choreographed by Leng Poh Gee & Kathyn Tan Chai Chen
Performed by Lim Siew Ling, Lim Hooi Ming, Lim Shin Hui, Tan Shiao Por & Pan May Tzy
A work by LAPAR Lab
At the same time we are doing this particular performance, a batch of new graduates of the dance degree from University of Malaya is celebrating their graduation. We sincerely dedicate this performance to those who are ready to embark upon their journey into professional dance society, and wish them luck.
3.30pm
13 Knots to Home
Created and performed by Scarlet Yu Mei Wah
Having left her home in Hong Kong ten years ago to live in Singapore, Scarlet Yu has moved from one room to another, one house to another, in a foreign land that has accepted her as an adopted child. In the past ten years, she has made exactly thirteen trips back home to Hong Kong, only to feel more and more distant from the place she once regarded as home.
3.45pm
Dreams Interrupted
Choreographed by Elysa Wendi (Singapore)
Performed by Ren Wei Chen
Inspired by the Kun Opera Peony Pavilion, choreographer Elysa Wendi
investigates the idea of intangibility and the power of dreams in our life. Dreams
interrupted is performed in a series of 5 short segments. Like a dream that happens over a number of days, the audience will slowly find out the full story at the end.
3.54pm
In Spirit
Choreographed by Ramli Ibrahim, reworked by Rathimalar Govindarajoo
Performed by Michelle Chang, Revathi Tamilselvam, Sivagamavalli, Tan Mei Mei, Divya Nair, and Rathimalar Govindarajoo.
An ode to women who celebrate the rhythm of life.
4.15pm
Kapayapaan
Choreographed and performed by Wong Oi Min & Gan Chih Pei
Music by Razali bin Abd. Rahim
A piece about the celebration of life, conservation of nature and cultivation of compassion.
4.40pm
Similar
Choreographed by Nurulakmal Abdul Wahid
Performed by Ahmad Zaki B. Mu Salleh @ Musleh, Muhaini Ahmad & Nurulakmal Abdul Wahid
A man wears women’s clothing, but he is not a woman. No matter how much he imitates her lovely or sexy movements, he can only be similar. He is only an outline. She fills in the gaps.
4.55pm
Chimera
Created by Kim Kyungmi, Sasha Ratnam & Mathieu Castel
Performed by Kim Kyungmi
Music by Mathieu Castel
In the quirky circle of life, we begin as simple cells awakened by meeting each other. Moulded by genetics over which we have no control, we evolve and mutate through human socialisation, finally leaving nothing behind. No predictions, rules or even will can exist in this cycle of energy. The same clone but different mutants, we are born and fade away within this energy of evolution.
5.10pm
Divide & Conquer
Choreographed by Fahmi Fadzil
Performed by audience volunteers
Malaysians love polls. Malaysians love being together. Let's see if this "poll" performance can keep people together. Or not.
5.20pm
Intermission
5.40pm
Sweet
Choreographed & performed by January Low
Music by Reza Salleh
6.05pm
Achilot
Coordinated by Elaine Pedley
Assisted by Muhammad Syaffiq bin Hambali
Choreographed and performed by the young participants of the Rimbun Dahan Dance Workshop
The workshop is based on
basic movements pieced
together by the kids through
games and exercises. The
focus is on play, hence
achilot, a Malay term for
various children’s games.
6.30pm
Biji II
Choreographed by Chai Vivan
Performed by Fione Chia Yan Wei, Caren Yap Chai Wen, Denny Donius, Chew Sie Theng, Sufi Asyraf b. Mohd Azman, Woo Yan Ten & Anna Lee See Wan.
Something small springs into growth. From the seed comes life.
6.50pm
Anything less is less than a reckless act
Choreographed and performed by Donna Miranda
Dramaturgy by Angelo V. Suarez
Featuring (on video) PJ Rebullida & Marah Arcilla
To go to the theatre, to go shopping, to watch a dance performance or the latest Hollywood movie—any aesthetic experience is informed by a decision-making process. This entails a necessary foreclosure: to choose one experience means not experiencing another. With the use of two rooms that cannot be experienced by the audience simultaneously—one with a video featuring two dancers in a duet, another where Miranda talks about the video's context—Anything less is less than a reckless act allows room for participation. This in turn exposes the futility of the concept of participation in theatre, a prohibitive system designed to distinguish performer from audience. To risk the audience’s subjectivity by giving them a measure of activity is to risk theatre itself.
7.40pm
Marilyn Monroe’s last 20 minutes before committing suicide
Created and performed by Kristine Nilsen Oma
Video art by Kok Siew Wai
The work is an experiential exploration of the Buddhist concept that earthly desires can lead to enlightenment. The work is a response to meeting a whole new environment and culture, and a personal quest to understand both my own desires and how to make them come from a higher perspective. In the context of the Third World certain neuroses becomes ridiculous. Yet they were created as a response to the Western world I have lived in all my life. How do I cope in the Third World? How will my neuroses behave? Is there a control in this experiment?
