Front Row

As part of the Blossom Arts Festival 2017, TheatreThreeSixty has devised a play with an ensemble of five local actors to explore the impact of history on the individual. The artistic director tells what the site offers and how the performance fit as hand-into-glove in the MCA building on Jalan Ampang.

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Getting a peek into the Opening and Closing ceremonies of the 29th SEA Games which the country will host. Our guest reveals who the artistic director of the event is and shares on the themes that will hold the performances together.

This programme is brought to you by Mah Sing.

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One of the most notable living contemporary dancer choreographer is Pina Bausch, credited with popularizing vignette-based performances that have no linear narrative, and performance incorporating many things that are not strictly dance.

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Beethoven is filling the air in the Klang Valley. This year, within weeks of each other, nearly half a dozen concerts bearing Beethoven have been staged. The composer is being celebrated although 2017 is not an anniversary year. Yin Qi sings the composer for his compassion and for the hope his music brings.

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‘White Mask’ is an art exhibition that takes its name from a short story written by Zedeck Siew. The short story also provides the 22 participating artists with the brief to create. Interestingly, some of these artists gave the writer the inspiration for ‘White Mask’ when they took him on a guided tour of graffiti art in the city.

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Hear how the father and son team up again to translate into Bahasa Malayu a canonical English work, George Orwell’s ‘Animal Farm’. Omar Ali who is also the director reveals about the adaptation which sets the tale on our shores. The cast member tells about the rehearsal process and learning to move like farm animals.

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The fifth part in the series on the history of music. This time, the period of music history which Ludwig Van Beethoven introduces with his dramatic works whose appeal are more emotional than intellectual.

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For most of us, Central Market is Pasar Seni. Not a place for fresh produce but a place for tourists to pick up souvenirs as keepsakes and mementos before they depart our shores.

Our guest, Ipoh-born and Australia-based, Hari Ho, shares how in the closing days of that wet market in the 1980s, he took time out to capture the life and lives of the people there.

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Over the next three weeks, a group of born-in-Malaysia dancers will all be performing three traditional Indian dances and one contemporary dance. The questions that arise, How do Malaysian bodies interpret Indian dances? How does a body that is trained in contemporary and other traditional dances adorn one for a particular traditional Indian dance? Answers to these questions articulated in the interview are informed by the experiences of the dancers themselves.

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Two artistic directors of two percussion-based performance groups--one here and one in Burkina Faso--share on how they look at the question of evolving their troupes balancing between keeping to their core strengths and the need to keep and grow their audience base. They also detail their three-year collaboration which will culminate in performances which pool together drumming traditions and instruments. They tell a story that links Africa and Asia that tells about our migratory legacies.

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