Front Row

The first episode in a series about the theatre with these practitioners taking us into the world behind this space and helping reveal what informs, what influences, what shapes this thing--the space and the performance--we call the theatre. In this show, they shape the conversation around Peter Brook’s seminal work, ‘The Empty Space’.

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The community orchestra shows-off its youth arm in its second concert. The artistic director-and-conductor, Chan Ling Chee, explains how the orchestra helps young musicians to improve beyond giving them the platform to perform and to learn from their peers. We also hear from Lim Khai Xian, Cellist, Kylie Tan and Kyvie Tan, Violists share their world of music.

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The director talks about this upcoming production of ‘Jade’, an original play by Alex Broun, which deals with the “psychological damage, and wider implications a crime can inflict on an individual when a minor is involved.”

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Tongue Tied Two is the long awaited sequel to the spoken word cabaret show which premiered at Urbanscapes in 2013. Featuring six poets, two musicians and one improv movement dancer, this redux retells the stories of the monsters from our childhood fairy tales in ways you never dreamed could be true.

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Suhaili introduces the novice to the contemporary dance scene in the country. In this first show, she gives a history and introduces the early dancers who embraced contemporary dance. She also points to the emerging choreographers who are marrying more local elements to contemporary dance springing from our soil. She moves fluidly to explain the changing form from ballet to modern dance to contemporary.

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The 'Aspiring New Zealand' photo exhibition showcases New Zealand’s spectacular winter landscapes that are rarely seen by the public taken from the sky. These works, have recently been awarded the International Photography Award 2016 for the category of Fine Art, Landscapes and Aerial Shoot. We talk to the Malaysian Photographer Jeffry Lim behind the series.

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The Malaysian staging, in English, of a rather famous Chinese tale which has been made into films in Cantonese and Mandarin. Hear the producer and director tell what other adaptations are being made for a Malaysian audience that already knows the tale of deceit and destruction.

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Our guests tell about their serendipitous discovery of gender-specific issues in this Pinter play. They tell how this Malaysian adaptation “would not only look on the concept of infidelity localized to a Malaysian setting but taking on a feminism angle.”

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The first in our series on ‘classical’ music over time. We kick off by looking back at music of the Middle Ages, the period of Richard the Lionheart, Robin Hood and Kublai Khan. This is the period that brought in music notation and the first moves toward polyphonic music.  Hear possible explanations for this evolution. Our guest posits the influences of Medieval music in contemporary music.

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The theatre maker introduces us to the subject of “voice and movement integration.” He shares how this approach to creation is manifested in works performed by his company in productions like ‘Dr Faustus’ and ‘Savages’. Be introduced to approaches like the ‘Laban Movement System’ and the ‘Suzuki Actor Training Method’.

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