Front Row

Pretty, inoffensive ‘art’ continues to be bought-and-sold and hung on corporate walls; provocative art, either overtly or subtly goading tend to find fewer such walls. Small, private galleries often are bolder pushing the envelope. The curator and artists share their thoughts of visual depictions of the ‘pent up’.

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The Malaysian Piano Quartet (MPQ) is a recently formed ensemble made up of four pianists (Felicity Thong, Chong Chooi Foong, Son Hui Ling, and Misa Yamamoto), trained in different institutions in different countries--England, Australia and the United States of America. Together, they perform pieces arranged for ‘two pianos eight hands’. Beyond hearing about the upcoming recital, hear them talk about ‘listening to each other’ to create harmonies and compelling music.

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A peek into Norzizi Zulkifli’s melding of contemporary theatre practices and the traditional practices of Mak  Yong.  This postgraduate project which first saw light in Australia premiered in Kuala Lumpur just this past weekend.  This sneak-peek  is a  prelude to an interview with the creator, director and now theatre instructor at UiTM.

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A quick tour of the preview exhibition which will lead up to an auction in the coming week. The assistant manager tells of what on the block and highlights a few piece, including the stars of the exhibition.

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Life Sdn Bhd produced and staged by the Actors Studio is in its 13th year. This series has dealt with important issues like HIV, aids and human trafficking.

This time it’s focusing on the very thing that has kept it alive all these years; People!

The cast is comprised of theatre and non-theatre people, indulging the audience in the much-loved human experience of storytelling.

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As part of the station’s tribute to Sudirman, Front Row invites two who were closely knitted to the late music star. We reminisce with them and unearth anecdotes that underscore the singer’s popularity and the kinds of fans he cultivated.

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The annual dance faculty outing. The dance lecturer and choreographer share upcoming events in ASWARA’s dance calendar. As an institution of higher learning and a dance academy, scholarship feeds into performance, and the lecturer and choreographer tell how both arms coalesce.

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In this exhibition about landscape as expressed by artists from Malaysia and Japan, The curator explains how the diversity of artistic backgrounds—ranging from video and installation to performance and research—promises to lead visitors down a rabbit hole of approaches to the subject matter.  Our guests reveal the correlation between artistic background, artist and the manifestations as art.

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We know what physical theatre is. We know what storytelling is. But what becomes of ‘physical storytelling’? A fancy new name for something traditional or is it indeed innovative performance? Benji Reid tells about the synergy of body, music and story to create a visceral narrative and the need for this kind of performance on stages.

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The born-in-Nigeria, lived in Papua New Guinea as a youth but now hangs his hat in many places took to Malaysia some ten years ago and continues to visit and revisit the country. He tells about how his love for the country has spawned this project capturing the everyday sights, sounds, heat and humidity. He tells how to capture visually heat which is felt on the skin. Last year, Arp Raph published a book titled ‘Mudley Explores Kuala Lumpur.’

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