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Cetus (2009)

BUKU PROGRAM / PROGRAMME BOOK SINOPSIS / SYNOPSIS Danstheater yang diambil dari kata Tanztheater yang berasal dari Jerman sejak tahun 1927, merujuk kepada Dance Theatre atau Teater Tari. Teater Tari ada berkait dengan istilah Drama Tari dan Taridra, walaupun berbeza dan bersifat kontemporari. Teater Asia mempunyai unsur-unsur drama, tari, muzik, muzikal dan sekaligus bersifat fizikal. [...]

  • MyDance Alliance Interns
    MyDance Alliance Interns
  • November 7, 2009

Jamu 2009 (2009)

BUKU PROGRAM / PROGRAMME BOOK SINOPSIS / SYNOPSIS ...a feast for the senses PRODUCTION INFORMATION SYARIKAT PENGANJUR/PRODUKSI/ PRODUCTION/PRESENTING COMPANY: Aswara Dance Company PENGARAH ARTISTIK/PENGURUS PROGRAM/ ARTISTIC DIRECTOR/CURATOR/PROGRAM COORDINATOR: Joseph Gonzales TARIKH/DATE: 22-25 October 2009 JUMLAH PEMENTASAN/TOTAL SHOWING: 4 TEMPAT PEMENTASAN/VENUE: Experimental Theatre, Aswara NEGERI/STATE: KL HARGA TIKET/TICKET PRICES: RM10 INDIVIDUAL DANCE ITEMS Item #1 TAJUK/TITLE: [...]

  • Bilqis Hijjas
    Bilqis Hijjas
  • October 25, 2009

Roof Top MyDance (2009)

BUKU PROGRAM / PROGRAMME BOOK SINOPSIS / SYNOPSIS A contemporary dance showcase curated by MyDance Alliance PRODUCTION INFORMATION SYARIKAT PENGANJUR/PRODUKSI/ PRODUCTION/PRESENTING COMPANY: MyDance Alliance PENGARAH ARTISTIK/PENGURUS PROGRAM/ ARTISTIC DIRECTOR/CURATOR/PROGRAM COORDINATOR: N/A TARIKH/DATE: N/A JUMLAH PEMENTASAN/TOTAL SHOWING: 1 TEMPAT PEMENTASAN/VENUE: The Actors Studio Lot 10 NEGERI/STATE: Kuala Lumpur HARGA TIKET/TICKET PRICES: N/A INDIVIDUAL DANCE ITEMS Item [...]

  • Bilqis Hijjas
    Bilqis Hijjas
  • October 15, 2009

Short+Sweet Malaysia – Dance (2009)

BUKU PROGRAM / PROGRAMME BOOK SINOPSIS / SYNOPSIS The biggest little dance festival in the world. PRODUCTION INFORMATION SYARIKAT PENGANJUR/PRODUKSI/ PRODUCTION/PRESENTING COMPANY: The Kuala Lumpur Performing Arts Centre PENGARAH ARTISTIK/PENGURUS PROGRAM/ ARTISTIC DIRECTOR/CURATOR/PROGRAM COORDINATOR: Joe Hasham OAM TARIKH/DATE: 22-25 July 2009 and 29 July - 1 August 2009 JUMLAH PEMENTASAN/TOTAL SHOWING: Week 1: 4, Week [...]

  • Bilqis Hijjas
    Bilqis Hijjas
  • August 5, 2009

Lepas: Tetap Menari (2009)

BUKU PROGRAM / PROGRAMME BOOK SINOPSIS / SYNOPSIS ASWARA mempersembahkan Lepas... Tetap menari! PRODUCTION INFORMATION SYARIKAT PENGANJUR/PRODUKSI/ PRODUCTION/PRESENTING COMPANY: ASWARA PENGARAH ARTISTIK/PENGURUS PROGRAM/ ARTISTIC DIRECTOR/CURATOR/PROGRAM COORDINATOR: Joseph Gonzales TARIKH/DATE: 17-19 July 2009 JUMLAH PEMENTASAN/TOTAL SHOWING: 3 TEMPAT PEMENTASAN/VENUE: Experimental Theatre, ASWARA NEGERI/STATE: KL HARGA TIKET/TICKET PRICES: N/A INDIVIDUAL DANCE ITEMS Item #1 TAJUK/TITLE: The Red [...]

  • Bilqis Hijjas
    Bilqis Hijjas
  • July 19, 2009

In Short (2009)

BUKU PROGRAM / PROGRAMME BOOK SINOPSIS / SYNOPSIS A culmination of two months physical and conceptual experimentation as choreographer in residence at Rimbun Dahan, Australian choreographer Angela Goh will present two short dance works and discuss her dance practice in an open feedback session with the audience. PRODUCTION INFORMATION SYARIKAT PENGANJUR/PRODUKSI/ PRODUCTION/PRESENTING COMPANY: Rimbun Dahan [...]

  • Bilqis Hijjas
    Bilqis Hijjas
  • July 11, 2009

Anak Malaysia (2009)

BUKU PROGRAM / PROGRAMME BOOK SINOPSIS / SYNOPSIS During 19th century, many Chinese people had to leave their homelands due to the poor condition of China. Among these people, the eldest son of family Yap, Choong Boon brought along his younger brothers, Xiao Boon and Ren Boon, and his younger sister, Ai Boon, together with [...]

  • Bilqis Hijjas
    Bilqis Hijjas
  • July 10, 2009

I’m Coming (2009)

BUKU PROGRAM / PROGRAMME BOOK SINOPSIS / SYNOPSIS The world of the little kaleidoscope is no more enough for them. These fourteen youths are ready to wriggling! PRODUCTION INFORMATION SYARIKAT PENGANJUR/PRODUKSI/ PRODUCTION/PRESENTING COMPANY: Batu Dance Theatre & Sunshine Project 5th Anniversary PENGARAH ARTISTIK/PENGURUS PROGRAM/ ARTISTIC DIRECTOR/CURATOR/PROGRAM COORDINATOR: Vincent Tan Lian Ho TARIKH/DATE: 11 - 14 [...]

  • Bilqis Hijjas
    Bilqis Hijjas
  • June 11, 2009

Toilet (2009)

BUKU PROGRAM / PROGRAMME BOOK SINOPSIS / SYNOPSIS I eat I sleep I play I breathe I exist I excrete I love you with my soul as pure as shit KREDIT / CREDITS TAJUK/TITLE: Toilet NAMA KUMPULAN TARIAN/DANCE COMPANY NAME: Pentas Project & KLPac KOREOGRAFER/CHOREOGRAPHER: N/A PENGARAH ARTISTIK/ARTISTIC DIRECTOR: Loh Kok Man KATEGORI/CATEGORY: Contemporary TARIKH/DATE: [...]

  • Bilqis Hijjas
    Bilqis Hijjas
  • May 24, 2009

Gostan Forward (2009)

BUKU PROGRAM / PROGRAMME BOOK SINOPSIS / SYNOPSIS Gostan Forward is an excavation of Marion D'Cruz's dance memory. The performances lecture traces Marion's growth as a student, dancer, choreographer and educator, revealing her choices, strategies and influences over the span of her 35-year dance career in Malaysia. Marion will tell stories and perform excerpts of [...]

  • Bilqis Hijjas
    Bilqis Hijjas
  • May 10, 2009

The Light Show 09 (2009)

BUKU PROGRAM / PROGRAMME BOOK SINOPSIS / SYNOPSIS A dance performance by Aida Redza and friends. KREDIT / CREDITS TAJUK/TITLE: The Light Show 09 NAMA KUMPULAN TARIAN/DANCE COMPANY NAME: N/A KOREOGRAFER/CHOREOGRAPHER: Aida Redza PENGARAH ARTISTIK/ARTISTIC DIRECTOR: N/A KATEGORI/CATEGORY: Contemporary TARIKH/DATE: 16th April 2009 JUMLAH PEMENTASAN/TOTAL SHOWING: 1 TEMPAT PEMENTASAN/VENUE: The Annexe Gallery, Central Market NEGERI/STATE: [...]

  • Bilqis Hijjas
    Bilqis Hijjas
  • April 16, 2009

Rasa Unmasked (2009)

BUKU PROGRAM / PROGRAMME BOOK SINOPSIS / SYNOPSIS Contemporary dance theatre in conjuction with Australia Month, April 2009, KLPAC KREDIT / CREDITS TAJUK/TITLE: Rasa Unmasked NAMA KUMPULAN TARIAN/DANCE COMPANY NAME: Sutra Foundation KOREOGRAFER/CHOREOGRAPHER: Ramli Ibrahim, Anandavalli Sivanathan PENGARAH ARTISTIK/ARTISTIC DIRECTOR: Ramli Ibrahim, Anandavalli Sivanathan Assistant: Guna KATEGORI/CATEGORY: Contemporary TARIKH/DATE: 7-15 April 2009 JUMLAH PEMENTASAN/TOTAL SHOWING: [...]

  • Bilqis Hijjas
    Bilqis Hijjas
  • April 15, 2009

Contact (2009)

BUKU PROGRAM / PROGRAMME BOOK Synopsis A full-length contemporary dance performance. Encountering performative dialogues between students and teachers are actualized in tertiary dance education when students become collaborators and performers. New ideas and opposing opinions sourced from invaluable skills of young dancers and choreographers precipitate impetuously into bodily and emotional dancescapes conjured by the mentor. [...]

  • Bilqis Hijjas
    Bilqis Hijjas
  • March 21, 2009

Danson (2008)

BUKU PROGRAM / PROGRAMME BOOK SINOPSIS / SYNOPSIS "DANSON" originated from an ancient German word which carries the meaning "to stretch." However, in the English and Malay language "DANSON" is characterized together simply as 'a dance'. In the context of "DANSON" - 'a dancer' is appreciated as a formation of basic bodily stretching and flexing [...]

  • Bilqis Hijjas
    Bilqis Hijjas
  • December 28, 2008

Projek Tahun Akhir Jabatan Tari (2008)

BUKU PROGRAM / PROGRAMME BOOK SINOPSIS / SYNOPSIS Projek Pengijazahan Seni Persembahan merupakan persembahan sempena penilaian projek pelajar tahun akhir program ljazah Sarjana Muda Seni Persembahan (Tari). Pelajar Pusat Kebudayaan yang mengambil program ini diberi pilihan sama ada untuk melaksanakan penyelidikan dan penulisan Latihan limiah atau melaksanakan projek akhir yang lebih tertumpu kepada bidang Koreografi [...]

  • MyDance Alliance Interns
    MyDance Alliance Interns
  • October 31, 2008

Remember/Rebel (2008)

BUKU PROGRAM / PROGRAMME BOOK SINOPSIS / SYNOPSIS The two works in this show revolve around how we as individuals, as well as dancers, place ourselves in relation to the future and the past. The works intertwine the deep traditions of dance, and the technique and discipline required to master them, with the joy of [...]

  • Bilqis Hijjas
    Bilqis Hijjas
  • July 13, 2008

Passion (2008)

BUKU PROGRAM / PROGRAMME BOOK SINOPSIS / SYNOPSIS passion inspired by Carlos Saura's Tango KREDIT / CREDITS TAJUK/TITLE: Passion NAMA KUMPULAN TARIAN/DANCE COMPANY NAME: KLPAC KOREOGRAFER/CHOREOGRAPHER: Judimar Hernandez PENGARAH ARTISTIK/ARTISTIC DIRECTOR: Joe Hasham KATEGORI/CATEGORY: Tango, contemporary TARIKH/DATE: 28 March - 6 April 2008 JUMLAH PEMENTASAN/TOTAL SHOWING: 10 TEMPAT PEMENTASAN/VENUE: KLPAC NEGERI/STATE: KL HARGA TIKET/TICKET PRICES: [...]

  • Bilqis Hijjas
    Bilqis Hijjas
  • April 6, 2008

Patches of Dreams (2007)

BUKU PROGRAM / PROGRAMME BOOK SINOPSIS / SYNOPSIS Dancers' very own body languages and individually were being led out in a space where there is no boundary. By exchanging different elements together with the choreographers' exchange of creativity and experiences, different energies were put together and <Patches of Dreams> was born. PRODUCTION INFORMATION SYARIKAT PENGANJUR/PRODUKSI/ [...]

  • MyDance Alliance Interns
    MyDance Alliance Interns
  • December 23, 2007

Tari ’07 (2007)

BUKU PROGRAM / PROGRAMME BOOK SINOPSIS / SYNOPSIS This is the largest international festival organised through the Dance Department ASWARA themed 'Independence and Identity'. This biannual dance festival began in 1994 to launch ASK as it was then known and now coincides with the development and expansion plans of ASWARA. [...] The standard of arts [...]

  • Bilqis Hijjas
    Bilqis Hijjas
  • July 28, 2007

Madhuram: An Odissi Exposition (2007)

BUKU PROGRAM / PROGRAMME BOOK SINOPSIS / SYNOPSIS A grand Odissi Recital by Dr. Chandrabhanu together with Dance Exchange PRODUCTION INFORMATION SYARIKAT PENGANJUR/PRODUKSI/ PRODUCTION/PRESENTING COMPANY: Soroptimist International (SI) Club of Bangsar PENGARAH ARTISTIK/PENGURUS PROGRAM/ ARTISTIC DIRECTOR/CURATOR/PROGRAM COORDINATOR: N/A TARIKH/DATE: 23-24 June 2007 JUMLAH PEMENTASAN/TOTAL SHOWING: 2 TEMPAT PEMENTASAN/VENUE: Auditorium Dewan Bandarraya Kuala Lumpur (DBKL) NEGERI/STATE: [...]

  • Bilqis Hijjas
    Bilqis Hijjas
  • June 24, 2007

Whispers of Love (2007)

BUKU PROGRAM / PROGRAMME BOOK SINOPSIS / SYNOPSIS An international dance collaboration initiated by MyDance Alliance as part of the MyDance Series 2007. This dance project features the joint efforts of Ong Yong Loke (Unlock Dancing Plaza, HK) and Lee Swee Keong (Nyoba Kan, Malaysia). By having the poem "The Afternoon of a Faun" by [...]

  • Bilqis Hijjas
    Bilqis Hijjas
  • June 7, 2007

Makyung “Anak Raja Panah” (2007)

BUKU PROGRAM / PROGRAMME BOOK SINOPSIS / SYNOPSIS Makyung Anak Raja Panah, mengisahkan tentang anak raja iaitu Anak Raja Panah yang ingin meminang seorang puteri raja yang cantik menawan dari kerajaan Car Perang Gelombang Peran Alun 9 Gelombang 1 yang bernama Puteri Cermin Cina. Beliau telah mengarahkan balang-balangnya untuk pergi mengadap Tok Raja Sinar Mentari [...]

  • Bilqis Hijjas
    Bilqis Hijjas
  • April 29, 2007

In The Mist of Love (2007)

BUKU PROGRAM / PROGRAMME BOOK SINOPSIS / SYNOPSIS This is an excellent piece exploiting Chang Ai-ling's self-loving, arrogant yet lonely; Lee Shut Tong's romantic and focus; Su Man Shu's shyness and plaYfulness, this is a remarkable combination to story the Mars and Venuses arousing in the Mist of Love KREDIT / CREDITS TAJUK/TITLE: In the [...]

  • Bilqis Hijjas
    Bilqis Hijjas
  • April 22, 2007

The Curse of the Forbidden Palace (2007)

BUKU PROGRAM / PROGRAMME BOOK SINOPSIS / SYNOPSIS The Curse of the Forbidden Palace is based loosely on the dramatic life story of Empress Dowager CI XI, a concubine-turned-despot who ruled over the last years of the Qing Dynasty, and was considered responsible for the downfall of Imperial China. Recalling the many power-mad individuals in [...]

  • Bilqis Hijjas
    Bilqis Hijjas
  • April 7, 2007

Stepping Out! (2006)

BUKU PROGRAM / PROGRAMME BOOK SINOPSIS / SYNOPSIS Stepping Out! is an annual choreography performance event aims to identify, develop, educate and provide exposure to budding choreographers for Malaysia. For 2006, the National Arts Academy will present some of its student and graduates in Stepping Out! Through these efforts, ASWARA is committed to improving the [...]

  • Bilqis Hijjas
    Bilqis Hijjas
  • December 8, 2006

HIBIKI – Resonance from Far Away (2006)

BUKU PROGRAM / PROGRAMME BOOK SINOPSIS / SYNOPSIS Walking like a single form / Fixing eyes straight forward, / Two people walk slowly / Each like the other, their destination shared. / Together, they need no sign to stop or start; / There may be more than two, / They may travel at speed, / [...]

  • Bilqis Hijjas
    Bilqis Hijjas
  • November 25, 2006

The Dying Eyes (2006)

BUKU PROGRAM / PROGRAMME BOOK SINOPSIS / SYNOPSIS The Dying Eyes will be the first theatre production of newly established LAPAR Lab. This is a full-length dance theatre production choreographed by Low Shee Hoe. He experienced all kinds of dance theatre productions, and furthermore expands his interest in multimedia design, image design and theatre technical [...]

  • Bilqis Hijjas
    Bilqis Hijjas
  • June 25, 2006

Choreography for Non-Choreographers (2006)

BUKU PROGRAM / PROGRAMME BOOK SINOPSIS / SYNOPSIS Workshop #2 of the Krishen Jit experimental workshop series 2006. Marion D'Cruz: "After years of putting non-dancers on stage, I thought, okay, if I can make non-dancers perform, I should be able to make the process of choreography accessible to non-choreographers. It's just one more step. Basically [...]

  • MyDance Alliance Interns
    MyDance Alliance Interns
  • June 18, 2006