Front Row

The artistic director of the company and a practitioner of the Japanese art form gives us a look into the upcoming Butoh festival, which will not only involved dancers but also photographers and painters. He also informs of the presence of a Butoh master, Koichi Tamano who will be here with Hiroko Tamano to run workshops and performances.

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The young musician plays a concert to raise funds for UNICEF and for Bentley Music Academy’s education and outreach programmes. She tells about her journey to become a musician and about the music she has chosen, classical and with some jazz crossover.

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The playwright tells about the evolution of his work, written in 2004, which was first staged in the island-nation south in 2008. Then again in 2011. After more than ten years after the writing, the play comes to Kuala Lumpur in English. In 2016, the play was performed in Mandarin. The actors weigh in on a discussion of performance in English language by tropical bodies.

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The newly formed Cendana has announced that it will start its first arts funding programme in November. The founding CEO Izan Satrina lays bare for the arts and the community, answering questions which will becoming from the community.

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Our guest makes her annual pilgrimage to KL to collaborate with Malaysian contemporary dancers. She tells what she has choreographed on the impulses of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 and how the dance is about people without seasons.

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The Vocal Fest (“VoxFest”) is a music community service project in its 4th year running. Our guests tell about this three-day programme which provides a platform for vocalists to come together and learn from practitioners in the industry. They peel the skin back on this event to show how it works and how it builds a community.

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A play that takes us back to the Renaissance and about the relationship between the ‘virgin’ Elizabeth I and the oft-married Mary Queen of Scots. Two veteran actors, playing two queens, tell about their own friendship and how that seeps into the performance.

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From an affinity for nature to the production of images of nature while questioning the role of nature in art. The gallery owner and one of the exhibiting artist talk about intricate geometries and about beauty. The young artist was here last talking about his beastly works--artistic depictions of animals in the wild.

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What happens when supposedly staid traditions clash with the need to innovate? Our guests tell about the melding of styles and how they determine if hybrid works or not.

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A conversation with a magician, mime artist, dancer, acrobat, juggler, musician and consummate performer. He tells about creativity and engendering stories about relighting the waning moon, about burning dead letters and evoking memories of love, about laughter. He gives us peek into the mind of an artist who performs for family, and in the performance reaching out to adults and children alike.

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