DANCE VIDEO: PAWANA
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In case you missed butoh dancer/choreographer Lee Swee Keong’s multidisciplinary theatre show Hasrat at PJPac last December, you can now watch a recording of the solo offerings on Youtube for free.
Choreographer/dancer Azmie Zanal Abdden’s Pawana performance captures the silat art form in contemporary conversation with dance and movement. Here the "angin" or "rasa" are unstructured elements adding to the performance, where internal instincts play a big part. Watch how Azmie's contemporary dance piece captures this "conversation".
The video of the Pawana performance was shot by Weijun Loh.
SHORT FILM: ROAD TO NOWHERE
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As one of the special programmes of the recent Crosscut Asia Delicious! Online Film Festival, The Japan Foundation, Kuala Lumpur produced a short film directed by Chu Yew Miin. In this short film Road To Nowhere, singer-songwriter/actor/producer Pete Teo, who started an organic farm a few years ago, travels to Kampung Sungei Teras, an Orang Asli (Semai) village in Selangor, on a food research/discovery mission.
On this road trip, he is joined by chef Darren Teoh, who regularly sources for indigenous ingredients, herbs and spices found throughout the country. He reinterprets them in his contemporary Malaysian cuisine.
The mysterious aboriginal citrus pursued on this field trip is the "buah limau hantu" (ghost lime), but Road To Nowhere goes far beyond the food culture narrative here.
Watch the short film here.
VIRTUAL DANCE: FESTIVE SEASON
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Despite the low key celebrations and SOP-compliant gatherings, the festive feel of the Chinese New Year season is still strong.
Here is a new short dance film of celebratory Chinese dance, created by Hornland Dance Theatre, choreographed by Chen Ing Kuan, supported by Cendana's CreateNow grants, and shot and edited by Pocket Pictures.
You can watch it here.
VIRTUAL ART: GAMBIR AND THE TIGER
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There is a dramatic account in German naturalist/explorer Fedor Jagor’s Singapore, Malaysia, Java. Reiseskizzen 1866 publication about tigers sneaking up on the coolies hard at work in the gambir plantations of Malaya.
Gambir And The Tiger, a new batik artwork by contemporary artist Chang Yoong Chia, perfectly depicts this scene, with a ferocious tiger leaping on an unsuspecting man and sinking its teeth into his neck. It is a piece from his upcoming batik series.
Chang, a trained painter, has been reflecting on the agricultural history and plantations of Tangkak in Johor since relocating from Kuala Lumpur. Through his YouTube channel, art lovers can find out more about his new batik works and previous projects.
VIRTUAL DANCE: COLLECTIVE SOUNDS - DIKIR
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Presented by ASK Dance Company, Hands Percussion’s Jimmy Ch’ng and Fresco Harmonica Ensemble’s Aiden Soon and Evelyn Choong, Collective Sounds - Dikir is a marriage of cultures.
Choreographed by Raziman Sarbini, the dikir barat, a traditional choral ensemble originating from the north, is a multidisciplinary art form comprising dance, music, poetry and vocals. In this performance, the dikir barat is performed to music played on the harmonica, which is not a traditional or local instrument.
Stream the upbeat Collective Sounds - Dikir for on YouTube.
VIRTUAL CNY EVENT: CHECK IN - PENANG CHINESE NEW YEAR CELEBRATION
Date and Time: Feb 5, 8pm
Chinese New Year is not over yet. Keep up the festive spirit going with the annual Penang Chinese New Year Celebration's virtual performance Check In.
Check In features the art of the drum and wing chun, a bel canto performance, an erhu solo, a clan traditional dance, a Chinese martial arts presentation, a Potehi puppet show, an orchestra performance, a contemporary dance, a lion dance and more.
This is the second time the festival is being presented online. The celebration, established in 1999, usually takes place at the Heritage Precinct of George Town. It is supported by the Penang state government, organised by the Penang Chinese Clan Council, and coordinated by the Penang Cultural Inheritors Society.
The event will be streamed for free via the event’s Facebook page and Youtube channel.
PODCAST SERIES: TRASH TREASURE
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Trash Treasure is a cross-cultural art residency programme that celebrates trash as a site of cultural exchange. Over a three-month period, eight creative practitioners, four each from Malaysia and Britain, engaged in a creative exchange centred on waste material.
The artists began by assembling "trash" from their daily lives and artistic practices. They then exchanged and repurposed the waste material acquired during the residency's sharing and learning sessions to create new artwork.
On the Malaysian side, you can now listen to documentary filmmaker Hannah Wan, multidisciplinary multimedia artist Abdul Shakir, former actor/director/screenwriter Fariza Azlina Isahak and professional coder KC Tan talk about their projects.
Listen to the podcast here.
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