Front Row

The abstract artist exhibits 30 collage sculptures and abstracts. The collages were completed during the month of Ramadhan in sympatico with Malaysian Muslims. How does working after sunset and before sunrise impact the works? But then the artist was also an award-winning music producer and DJ doing gigs all over Asia. What is the impact of music on his art?

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The marrying two apparently different traditions—Asian and Western—to make music at once familiar and yet new, fresh. but rumour has it that Tchaikovsky heard the gamelan and was enamored of it. So Hands Percussion after dipping its toes into Western classical music, now has it hands, heart and all into it.

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Described as an innovative group, this quartet of four traditional string-instruments--two violins, a viola and a cello--brings fun and enjoyment of classical music to a larger audience intimidated or just put off by the term ‘classical’.

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Jazz and Latin dancer, Gavin Tan tears the walls that separate formal dances and street moves. In his upcoming showcase, he includes salsa and other Latin Ballroom dances together with jazz, contemporary and pole dancing with undulations of the belly.

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Contextualizing 18th century canonical music--a couple of pieces by JS Bach--and uncovering to the tin ear its beauty and appeal. David Chin knits Bach’s life and music to show the resultant tapestry.

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A 16-year-old not-for-profit organization brings professional ballet dancers to KL with a mission to take that classical dance to a higher level for both the active dancers and the less active audience. It will be bringing nine performers from five countries to seduce Malaysians into the Istana Budaya.

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A fantastical (as in full of fantasy) play about the early days of AIDS in the United States, capturing the denial, the anger and the conflicts of a time which test bonds between spouses, parent-and-child, lovers, friends, business colleagues, people who worship the same creator, etc. In the face of catastrophe, charge forward to fight, bury heads in the sand or simply pretend it’s just status quo? The interview explores what do Americans, their history and religious inclinations got to do with Malaysians.

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Getting children to play for other children and in the process getting the all-children cast to experience the creative journey of putting together a made-in-Malaysia program.

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Melding drumming, non-dance movement and oratory to tell stories of the dispossessed masses. The directors  want to confront us with existential questions of place, of wishes, of hopes. Whose answers should make us choose to live and not merely exist. ‘

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The trumpeter comes from a family of musicians, picking up the instrument of his choice at 14.  Two years later, he packed his bags and went off to Cuba. Having played with many latin jazz bands and having traveled extensively--Europe, Americas, Asia, Africa--he turned to write music with different strains of influence.

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