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about 39 months ago (02/10/2021)
Women making history: Snow Whitening Revisited | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles Anders Jiras February 10, 2021 By Brian Toh (814 words, 4-minute read) Snow Whitening Revisited presents an allegory on being a female artist in Cambodia, playing with imagery that evokes visceral feelings of clinging, and a sense of embodied helplessness that pays tribute to both cultural heritage and a deep historical trauma...
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about 46 months ago (07/13/2020)
Purⓔ《纯ⓔ》: How do we talk about Art Form X? | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Viewpoints Courtesy of M1 CONTACT July 13, 2020 By Jocelyn Chng (1,800 words, 4-minute read) When I accepted the opportunity to write this piece on Purⓔ 《 纯 ⓔ》 , I did it feeling a bit like a shipwreck survivor re-approaching water for the first time...
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about 47 months ago (06/13/2020)
M1 CONTACT: Dance artists talk mental health | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Viewpoints June 13, 2020 Four artists, Ruby Jayaseelan, Irfan Kasban, Fabio Liberti and Xenres Kirishima Chi Ji Hong, get personal as they talk about mental health issues in relation to works they have been developing for M1 CONTACT Contemporary Dance Festival...
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about 47 months ago (06/08/2020)
The working processes of artists: Kavitha Krishnan | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles June 8, 2020 Kavitha Krishnan, creative director and co-founder of Maya Dance Theatre, shares about her start in the traditional dance form Bharatanatyam, and how she also incorporates contemporary techniques and practices into the company’s work...
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about 53 months ago (12/31/2019)
The top ArtsEquator articles of 2019 | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles Photo courtesy of Akanga Film Asia & Philipp Aldrup Photography December 31, 2019 Here’s a list of the top 10 ArtsEquator articles in 2019: Enter Stage Right: Tay Tong by Art sEquator “It is amazing how one’s identity is so associated with one’s job...
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about 53 months ago (12/24/2019)
Podcast 71: ArtsEquator End-of-Year Dance Podcast 2019 | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles December 24, 2019 Soultari Amin Farid, Chan Sze-Wei and Germaine Cheng discuss their top picks for dance in 2019, and discuss trends they’ve observed in the scene this year...
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about 55 months ago (11/08/2019)
Progress at work: "Forward Shift" at da:ns festival | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles Bernie Ng November 8, 2019 By Bernice Lee (1,507 words, 7-minute read) Forward Shift , a new platform for works-in-progress within Esplanade’s da:ns festival, begins with much fanfare...
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about 56 months ago (09/27/2019)
The Traditional Body, The Contemporary Mind and The (Dancing) Mother | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles Sivarajah Natarajan September 27, 2019 By January Low (1,693 words, 7-minute read) A little over a year ago, I was invited to be a part of MI(X)G , Festival Tokyo’s 2018 opening production, and the cherry on the sundae was to work together with legendary Thai contemporary dance artist Pichet Klunchun for five weeks spread out over four months...
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about 56 months ago (09/20/2019)
The working processes of artists: Raka Maitra from CHOWK | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles September 20, 2019 In this video, LASALLE students Ernie Martha and Raesmi Nambiar speak to Raka Maitra, founder and artistic director of CHOWK, on the practice of contemporary dance in Singapore, her roots as a classical Odissi dancer in India and the challenges CHOWK faces as a dance company...
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about 59 months ago (06/25/2019)
Transgression, triggers, and the thousand cuts of “Blunt Knife” | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles Photo courtesy of the artist June 25, 2019 By Corrie Tan (2,700 words, 13 -minute read) Content Warning: Mentions of a sexual relationship involving a teenager This response contains major spoilers for Blunt Knife by Eng Kai Er and A Doll’s House by Theatre of Europe...
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about 60 months ago (05/20/2019)
The Paris Opera Ballet performs Crystal Pite’s "The Seasons’ Canon": Esplanade’s da:ns series 2019 | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles Julien Benhamou May 20, 2019 By Elizabeth Chan (750 words, four-minute read) The prestigious Paris Opera Ballet arrives on local shores this June as part of Esplanade’s da:ns series, bringing with them a trio of wide ranging works...
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about 68 months ago (09/27/2018)
Podcast 48: Interview with Bilqis Hijjas | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Viewpoints September 27, 2018 Duration: 32 min In this month’s dance podcast, host Amin Farid chats with Malaysian dance practitioner and writer Bilqis Hijjas on wide-ranging topics from her roles as president of MyDance Alliance and director of the dance programme Rimbun Dahan , to her thoughts on the dance scene in Malaysia, dance criticism, the Southeast Asian identity, and some emerging choreographers and dancers to look out for such as Fanglao Dance Company from Laos, and Malaysia’s Lee Ren Xin...
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about 70 months ago (08/14/2018)
“Between Tiny Cities (រវាងទីក្រុងតូច)”: De-cyphering Conversation | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles Vincent August 14, 2018 By Nah Dominic (1080 words, five-minute read) A white circle 10 metres in diameter greets us on entering the flexible performance space in Loft 29...
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about 70 months ago (08/08/2018)
AExGTF Chats: "Between Tiny Cities (រវាងទីក្រុងតូច)" at George Town Festival | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles https://artsequator.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Between-Tiny-Cities.mp4 August 8, 2018 Between Tiny Cities (រវាងទីក្រុងតូច) , a two-hander dance performance dovetailing b-boy vocabulary with contemporary dance, was the result of a three-year cultural exchange between Tiny Toones in Cambodia and Darwin City Rockers in Australia...
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about 71 months ago (07/05/2018)
Astrid Boons: Belgian Choreographer brings "Vestige" to Singapore | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles July 5, 2018 By Bernice Lee (974 words, 5 minute read) I caught Astrid Boons between rehearsals in Korzo for Vestige ...
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about 71 months ago (06/28/2018)
Dance Podcast: Paradigm Shift; Contemporary and Street Dance Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Viewpoints Elijah Zechariah "I love the group representation in this picture...