Front Row

We caught up with David Glass on his visit to KL running a workshop on physical theatre. But isn’t theatre by definition physical? David Glass clarifies and tells why theatre must continue to innovate to engage, just like anything else.

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Celebrating its fourth international drumming festival, Hands Percussion has invited three acts from overseas. Bernard Goh brings with him US-based Targapa of Burkina Faso (Africa) to share with us the group’s drumming and dancing. Dafra Drum has its roots in the ancient Manding Empire.

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A beverage company is anchoring an art exhibition of works in conjunction with the country’s celebrating of August 31 and September 16. This exhibition is co-curated by three practicing artists who chose in a blind selection the works to be exhibited. Fritilldea’s design for the beverage company’s limited edition Malaysian can launch in March this year was the model from which submitting artists took inspiration. The curators tell about contemporary art in the country and where Malaysian identify comes to play.

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A silver-prize winner in the established-artist category of the United Overseas Bank Painting of the Year last year, Azizi Latiff, explains how and why he creates his works. He also points to the role art competitions play in the lives of artists and explains the need for competition.

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We find out what is a sonic poem from one of the creators and the creative producer of Toccata Studio that runs artists residency programs. While each word in ‘sonic poem’ has clear denotative meanings, when yoked together they offer something else. The artist tells what prompts such a project and what he and his collaborator, Kok Siew-Wai, were exploring.

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The artist tells how growing up under the influence of his mother, it is inevitable that he is a photographer, and one who is interested in questions about life. He responds to art critics who categorizes his works as ‘disturbing’ turning the attention back on these art writers.  The artist will hold his Malaysian debut in October at Wei-Ling Contemporary

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After ‘Shakespeare’s Women’ it’s a matter of equality to stage ‘Shakespeare’s Men’. Two from the production share what all is involved and which scenes will be staged and in what context. They tell how as actors they participated in the creation of this work.

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 The La Voce Choir celebrates ten years of its existence with a concert--’A Decade in Harmony’--and outreach programmes. Running a community choir has both its joys and challenges, and our guests tell about competing overseas and composing original works.

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The poet-musician is in the country promoting his kind of contemporary music--hip-hop, rap, urban music but shaped by his spiritual and contemplative nature. He tells about the obstacle that blocks people from embracing and accepting The Other--ignorance. This conversation links language, spirituality, connectedness and ‘truths’; touching on the Beatles, Rumi, George Orwell,  baseball and Janda Baik.

Hear our previous interview with Baraka Blue at this link.

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A conversation in the gallery where the artist is exhibiting his watercolours and three oils completed recently for ‘Colours of Heritage’. The artist, Alex Leong, points out the characteristics of his works and reveals how he picks up ideas from always teaching and observing his young students. ‘Colours of Heritage’ could just as well be called ‘Colours of Happiness’, download to find out why.

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