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about 5 months ago (12/08/2023)
Fiery Red Sky Makes for Unique Light Paintings at Uyuni Salt Flats Home / Photography Striking Light Paintings Set Against a Fiery Red Sky at Bolivia’s Uyuni Salt Flat By Jessica Stewart on December 8, 2023 The collaboration between visual artist Eric Paré and contemporary dancer Kim Henry continues as the duo traveled to Bolivia's Uyuni Salt Flats (Salar de Uyuni)...
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about 5 months ago (12/01/2023)
Epic Performance Animates JR's Paris Opera Façade Home / Art / Installation Epic Performance Animates JR’s Paris Opera Façade By Jessica Stewart on December 1, 2023 Photo courtesy of Palais Garnier In September, when JR transformed the façade of the Paris Opera House into a Platonic cave, it was only the first sign of what was to come...
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about 6 months ago (11/03/2023)
Artist Akeem Smith on bringing Jamaican dancehall culture out of the shadows - arts24 Skip to main content Artist Akeem Smith on bringing Jamaican dancehall culture out of the shadows Issued on: 03/11/2023 - 15:44 11:25 arts24 © FRANCE 24 By: Solène CLAUSSE | Marion CHAVAL | Magali FAURE | Clémence DELFAURE | Alison SARGENT | Loïc CHALAVON | Sonia PATRICELLI Akeem Smith grew up between Brooklyn, New York and Kingston, Jamaica, where his aunt and grandmother were figures of the city's dancehall culture...
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about 26 months ago (03/14/2022)
A Tribute to Santha Bhaskar From a Student | ArtsEquator Skip to content Aparna Nambiar pays tribute to her late teacher, Singapore dance pioneer Mrs Santha Bhaskar, who passed away on 26 February 2022 at the age of 82...
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about 26 months ago (03/01/2022)
Experiencing a slice of life: Artist’s Block by ArtWave | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Viewpoints Zinkie Aw March 1, 2022 By Noorul Raaha As’art (830 words, 3-minute read) Waterloo Street is a smorgasbord of sensory experiences, from Hindu and Buddhist temples coexisting side by side, to old uncles and aunties hawking religious paraphernalia, shaded by their New Moon abalone umbrellas, and stalls offering acupuncture services, amongst other things...
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about 32 months ago (09/06/2021)
The working processes of artists: Luqman (Flair Brothers) | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Artist Profile September 6, 2021 Singapore hip-hop dancer Luqman from Flair Brothers gives us a lesson in the dance and also the lifestyle, introducing terms that are well known in the scene, and sheds light on how the scene has changed over the years...
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about 55 months ago (10/16/2019)
RAW Moves' "Being, and Organs" and the unbearable whiteness of Block O | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles Crispian Chan October 16, 2019 By Nabilah Said (890 words, 5-minute read) Draw a straight line...
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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 61 months ago (04/29/2019)
The Body Remembers: Kitt Johnson on "Stigma" at M1 CONTACT Contemporary Dance Festival 2019 | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles "Stigma", photo by James Quah (left), Kitt Johnson, photo by Per Morten Abrahamsen (right) April 29, 2019 By Germaine Cheng (605 words, three-minute read) 2019 marks the 10th edition of the M1 CONTACT Contemporary Dance Festival , a humble endeavour by Kuik Swee Boon, artistic director of T...
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about 61 months ago (04/28/2019)
What If Your Body Turns into a Sculpture? : Interview with Sasha Waltz on "Körper" at SIFA 2019 | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles April 29, 2019 By Winnie Chen Dixon (600 words, four-minute read) Have you ever imagined dancers’ bodies turning into sculptures, as if time stood still? This is the impression of Körper (Body) , the signature dance performance of this year’s edition of the Singapore International Festival of Arts....
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about 61 months ago (04/16/2019)
Frontier Danceland's “LEAP 2019”: Showcasing the Scholars of PULSE 2018/19 | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles Bernie Ng April 16, 2019 By Jocelyn Chng (930 words, four-minute read) LEAP is an annual platform from contemporary dance company Frontier Danceland, showcasing the young trainee dancers of the M1-Frontier Danceland PULSE Programme ...
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about 62 months ago (03/21/2019)
The #TenYearChallenge: M1 CONTACT Contemporary Dance Festival | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles Left: Silvia Yong, photographed by Tan Ngiap Heng, for Contact 2010 Right: Shintaro Oue in "Dan-Su", which will be performed at M1 Contact 2019, photographed by Matron March 21, 2019 Over the past decade, contemporary dance in Singapore has blossomed...
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about 63 months ago (03/06/2019)
Of Math and Art: "A Game of Numbers" with NUS Arts Festival 2019 | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles March 6, 2019 By Elaine Chiew (1195 words, five-minute read) ‘A GAME OF NUMBERS’: Elaine Chiew interviews Mary Loh and Professor Victor Tan on the mathematically-themed NUS Arts Festival 2019 believed to be first-ever in Singapore...
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about 63 months ago (02/25/2019)
“Learning”: Memory, Precision, Uncertainty in a 5-hour Durational Performance at National Gallery Singapore | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles Arnaud Bouvier "Learning”, choreographed by Liz Santoro and Pierre Godard February 25, 2019 By Jocelyn Chng (440 words, three-minute read) Part of National Gallery Singapore’s special programme Performing Spaces that explores how space can be a “living organism” facilitating encounters between performers and audiences, Learning takes place over two weekends in March 2019...
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about 65 months ago (01/07/2019)
Video: The ArtsEquator End-of-Year Dance Podcast 2018 | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Viewpoints January 7, 2019 ArtsEquator held a live recording of its year-end dance podcast at Dance Nucleus SCOPE #4 on Sunday 2 December 2018, 7pm...
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about 66 months ago (12/10/2018)
Frontier Danceland's "Milieu" 2018: Emotional Rollercoasters | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles Bernie Ng December 10, 2018 By Winnie Chen Dixon (860 words, four-minute read) It was a night of emotional rollercoasters and an audio-visual feast at Frontier Danceland’s double bill Milieu 2018 ...
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about 66 months ago (11/30/2018)
Telling A Thai Tale: A Dance Dramaturg’s Take (via The Theatre Times) Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles November 30, 2018 “When I collaborate, I want to collaborate with the wrong person.” Pichet Klunchun, Thai dancer, and director reveals a glint of mischief behind his earnest and gentle demeanor...
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about 67 months ago (11/01/2018)
Rianto's "Medium": Of Journeys, Transformations & Corporeality | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles Bernie Ng November 1, 2018 By Nirmala Seshadri (990 words, four-minute read) Total darkness...
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about 67 months ago (10/25/2018)
On the Indonesian Dance Festival with Maria Darmaningsih | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles October 25, 2018 As part of ArtsEquator’s series of interviews profiling festival directors in Southeast Asia, we get to learn more about Maria Darmaningsih, co-founder and current artistic director of the bi-annual Indonesian Dance Festival (IDF), which was launched in 1992...
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about 67 months ago (10/18/2018)
"xhe": Caught Between a Square and an Octopus | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles Bernie Ng Photo by Bernie Ng, courtesy of Esplanade – Theatres on the Bay October 18, 2018 By Loo Zihan (1460 words, six-minute read) To preface: a statement to disclaim...
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about 67 months ago (10/18/2018)
“Until the Lions” by Akram Khan Company: What About the Lioness? | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles Bernie Ng Photo: Bernie Ng, courtesy of Esplanade – Theatres on the Bay October 18, 2018 By Jocelyn Chng (1160 words, six-minute read) Until the Lions , a work that premiered in 2016 at the Roundhouse in London, is presented as one of the main (Centrestage) programmes at the 2018 Esplanade da:ns festival ...
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about 67 months ago (10/18/2018)
"Invisible Habitudes": Postcards From a Choreographer’s Journey | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles Bernie Ng October 18, 2018 By Chan Sze Wei (1090 words, five-minute read) T...
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about 68 months ago (09/20/2018)
SHIFT at Esplanade’s da:ns festival 2018: A Sneak Peek in GIFs Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles September 20, 2018 Esplanade’s da:ns festival returns this year from 9 – 21 October...
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about 68 months ago (09/14/2018)
Sitting in the ‘gap’: Faye Lim explores body autonomy for children (via Talking Circles) | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles September 15, 2018 Faye Lim dances, facilitates, performs, improvises, makes, and mothers...
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about 69 months ago (08/23/2018)
"Asian Festivals Exchange" at M1 Contact Contemporary Dance Festival 2018 | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles Bernie Ng K(-A-)O by Kenji Shinohe August 23, 2018 By Bernice Lee (1300 words, five-minute read) “Asian Festivals Exchange” puts together works selected from two East Asian festivals — Yokohama Dance Collection and Seoul Dance Collection — two works performed by T...
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about 70 months ago (08/08/2018)
"Binary – International Artist Showcase" at M1 Contact 2018: The Colour of the Sun is Black | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles Crispian Chan Left: "Vestige" by Astrid Boons; "Black Velvet" by Shamel Pitts August 8, 2018 By Chloe C...
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about 70 months ago (08/08/2018)
"Off Stage" at M1 Contact 2018: Communicating Beyond The Stage | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles Image courtesy of M1 Contact Contemporary Dance Festival August 8, 2018 By Bernice Lee (1100 words, six-minute read) M1 Contact Contemporary Dance Festival has become a staple of the contemporary dance scene in Singapore...