Front Row

A theatre company is taking a storytelling performance to public primary schools. Our guests tell about the birth of this initiative and what happens when the performances are executed in school halls. Students share what they gathered from participating in the performance and teachers share their thoughts.

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Ketika Bumiku Menari is a contemporary dance performance to highlight how humans are causing natural catastrophes and other disasters. Promising dance works designed to help the us all realize that the earth is demanding better conservation, the performance features a diverse group of performers. We find out more from choreographer/ dancer Rithaudin Abdul Kadir, and choreographer/ dancer Foo Chi Wei.

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With the tagline "thinking and talking about arts and culture in Southeast Asia," ArtsEquator.com is a non-profit company, created by Kathy Rowland and Jenny Daneels, who co-founded the pioneering arts website Kakiseni (2001 – 2009). Bringing together information, articles, events and ideas from Southeast Asia, Arts Equator aims to understand how people, place, policy, money, theory, history, politics, religion, intersect with arts and culture in the different countries that make up the region. We find out more from co-founder, Kathy Rowland.

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Ahmad Fuad Osman is a multi-disciplinary artist who works predominantly in installation and paintings and is perhaps best known for being a member of the famed Matahati collective. After a long absence from the scene – his last solo exhibition was in 2007 - Fuad returns with Primitive" which promises to be a gritty, visual documentation of current day events. He, together with the exhibition's curator Syed Muhd Hafiz, join us to discuss the exhibition in store.

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Find out why a local playwright, Mark Beau De Silva, decided, at least on the surface of things, to pen a Malaysian version of  ‘Priscilla, Queen of the Desert’.  Is the story of the struggling artist, regardless of national boundaries, the same, except for personal details? We also find out from the all-male cast and the director why men in drag--like ‘Men in Tutus’--make for comedy, but women dressed as men are somewhat closer to the mundane.

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"Heartbreak Hotel" is a group exhibition featuring the works of emerging artists, Ibnu Alfadli Othman, Jun Kit, and Mark Tan. Scheduled to coincide with Valentines Day, we find out more about the themes explored in this exhibition with the three artists.

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Our producer sneaked into the first local performance of the Handlebards’ all-female cast of Shakespeare’s ‘As You Like It’. He captured some of the moments, as tasters, for you and then spoke the cast right after. The format of the show, four actors playing all the roles (in excess of 24 characters), lends to the inescapable physical humour of being in more than one suit--sometimes two--at any single time.

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Dr Sakthi is a medical practitioner and musician who released his debut album, PULSE, in November last year. Pulse, which is described as a "quantum dancehall experience" is the culmination of Dr. Sakthi's 16 years in music. He joins us to discuss his vision in the combined field of music and medicine, and how music can be a tool for therapy.

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We find out more about this charity fundraiser concert, which Malaysian-born/ Perth-based composer Nick Choo is putting together in aid of his own brother. Among those performing are Anrie Too, Dominic Lucien Luk, Peter Ong and Tria Aziz, performing songs from Nick's musicals "The Edge", "Follow The Light", "Dreaming Outside The Box" and much more.

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First composed in 2010, this evolved work, ‘Space Age: The Phantom Power’, premiered in that same year under the title ‘Space Age: A Journey like Never Before’. Two years later in 2013, with our guest on the theremin, the work was revised and performed with four other Malaysian musicians. Now before they depart to perform in Japan, the composer and producer take us through this latest iteration of this piece which celebrates the romance of space travel.

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