“I believe that dance transcends race.”

“It’s not about being Indian to be good in Indian dance”

“… how they can embrace being an Indian dancer without feeling that they are threatening their Chinese or Malay identity, because beyond that they are as Chinese and as Malay as you can be.”
 
Joseph Gonzales, Dean of Faculty of Dance at ASWARA, discusses blurring boundaries with Bharanatyam, as ASWARA stages its latest performance featuring 3 non-Indian dancers taking on one of the most popular and widely performed classical Indian dance styles.

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Malaysia's popular musical theatre performers will present songs by the iconic composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim.

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Eugene Ionesco’s MACBETT is part convention and part experiment, part realism and part heightened dream as well as explores multimedia to a new, never-before-experienced level in Malaysian theatre. We learn more with Tung Jit Yang and Alexis Wong

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Founders of Sugam Karnatica, a not-for-profit organisation share their vision of helping children get exposed to dance & music.

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His work has been described as ‘visually arresting but essentially enigmatic - like a frame snipped from an Italian neo-realist film’. Visual artist, Chris Pole talks about his latest work: Repeat Pattern New Works, featured as part of the Vision Culture Residency exhibition at the Shalini Ganendra Fine Art Gallery. 

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Light artist Claudia Bueno and gallery owner Lim Wei Ling talk about Fibrespace, a site-specific light installation which is set to take viewers on a journey through the nervous system, with filamentous structures and video projections engulfing three floors of the Wei Ling Gallery in Brickfields. 

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Izan Satrina, founder of My Performing Arts Agency (MyPAA) shares with us how individuals and companies dabbling in the performing arts can benefit from the Royal Gala Funds. 

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Sharanya Radhakrishnan (Director), Calvyn Wong (Co-Director) and Aaron Al Fateh (Actor) talk about 'Art', a comedy written by Yasmina Reza, that revolves around three friends, Ivan, Max and Serge. In this play, friendships are tested, views on what constitutes art are questioned and true colours of the protagonists are revealed. 

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The Tailor Made Man is an endearing tale of an individual called Joseph who struggles through daily challenges in order to fulfill his dreams. The Bigger Picture talks to director and scriptwriter, Jason Ding and cast member, Darren Yeoh to find out more about the production that will be staged from 26-28 July 2013 at PJLA. 

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With a fondness for improvisation, Kolkata-based band Kendraka's music is said to be a confluence of many different cultural influences, including jazz, Hindustani and Carnatic music, among others.

The band's sizzling psychedelic electro-acoustic music has made waves the world over, and they are currently in Kuala Lumpur as part of their sixth international tour, Eurasia 2013: Root Map 3.

Bassist Mainak 'Bumpy' Nag Chowdhury and guitarist Nishad Pandey join us to share more about their music and their latest album, "Kuala Lumpur - Root Map 1".

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