Front Row

Our guests share how writers like William Faulkner and Stephen King have given them inspiration to create ‘Kill Your Darlings’ a full-length dance piece. They lay bare the process and explain how dance can provide accessible metaphors in its choreographic choices.

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Before launching into a discussion on a play that is set in a totalitarian state, our guests discuss an opinion-piece published in an online arts site which proposes that local theatre companies stage productions which resonant more with millennials. Then the main discussion about a play that incorporates dark stories for children, murders and the dislocation of truth.

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Our guests tell about creating a theater company that focuses on “a language that transcends the word.” Now they work with masks, creating a “theatre of gestures”. They share with us how they engender complex communication without words.

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The dancer-choreographers explain “audience segmentation” and how it is used to help grow dance-attendees through audience-development programs. Our guests uncover how to introduce dance-averse audience and novices to this genre of the performing arts, how to engage the audience in a conversation on dance. Beyond that, get a view into how dancers find projects and to keep themselves employed. Might change how you think about live performers.

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Two young students who are directing 10-minute plays in a festival organized for young people talk about learning the craft and attempting to get the best out of words on a page and out of other young performers who are classmates or schoolmates.

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Our guests introduce “avant-garde Borneo ethnic music band” Nading Rhapsody, a group that will be singing songs based on indigenous tales from Sarawak. The Pusaka folks trace this cross-cultural fusion of folk song, ritual chanting, mythological stories to underscore how traditional cultures are evolving to stay relevant.

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A local private university has invited American universities to perform concerts in town to celebrate the launch of the university's new music performance degree. The Associate Dean takes the opportunity to tell about playing the trombone as a jazz and classical musician.

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The teacher and student share with us the appeal of the harp and that it is not an instrument to play heavenly music only. Kathrina points out that she likes the rough elements of the harp.

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Two separate guests telling us about two different programmes at the festival. Ida Nerina describes ‘Section by Stesen’ that will be performed by Malaysia’s premier Mak Yong actor, Zamzuriah Zahari. Bilqis Hijjas shares on ‘Dancing in Place--City Site 2017’ which will see not only local dancers but also those from Indonesia and Thailand. Hear what ‘site-specific’ defined and explained.

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In the course of describing this annual international event, the Soorya India Festival, which makes Kuala Lumpur one of its regular stops, our guests share on the importance of the arts--both the visual and performing ones (dance)--to the lives of Indian-Malaysians in the country. They also introduce some of the 24 artists from India who are participating in this festival.

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