Front Row

Join the fight against human trafficking. Find out more about the Freedom Festival 2013 which is happening this Saturday, 24th August 2013.

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Daughter to legendary Loganathan from the Alleycats, Dasha Logan was exposed to the music scene from a very young age and been passionate about it since she could remember. She returns to No Black Tie jam to her favorite genres of Jazz, Funk, Soul and RnB.

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“Female directors telling women’s stories”

With an ambitious 15 short films in the series, Ikal Mayang 2013’s diverse collective serves as an intricate exploration of the female experience in a Malaysian setting. Find out more about this installation and how to take part in next year's 2014 Ikal Mayang. 

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“In Winter 33°C, two separate dance pieces will jointly explore human consciousness and metaphysics by examining the inherent blueprints of our thoughts and feelings”.

Choreographed by Brigel Gjoka and Amy Len, Winter 33°C is a juxtaposition of East and West highlighting the distinctive dance styles which are contrasting yet complimentary. Tune in to find out more. 

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Buy a book and an under-served child gets one for free

Magicbird Publishing founder, Quek Sue Yian shares her plans to flood Malaysia with books that give children the freedom to think and ponder.

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“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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