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DATE
19 APR 2012, THU -
20 APR 2012, FRI
20 APR 2012, FRI
TIME
8pm
(1hr 15mins including 30min feedback session)
(1hr 15mins including 30min feedback session)
VENUE
Theatre Studio
PRICE
FREE
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SYNOPSIS
Explore truth in theatre at PRISMS through the refraction and convergence of distinct perspectives – of history and mythology, philosophy and science, reason and passion, reality and absurdity.
RAW
Get closer to the creative process of artists who present their works-in-progress at RAW. These presentations are free and participants are encouraged to join artists and industry professionals in post-show dialogue and feedback sessions. www.thestudios.com.sg
Three dancers search their dance memories for the moment where memory and technique become the basis for a dance without identity.
Accompanied by a soundscape of organic and industrial sound and melodies, three dancers search for the moment where memory and technique become the basis for a dance without identity.
They focus on specific parts of their bodies in order to understand their movements as whole. And as their bodies speak different choreographic languages, tracing a journey of the accumulated dance memories over time, deconstructed traces of hip hop, Butoh, traditional Asian and contemporary dance meld together to reveal a unique new aesthetic—a new dance language born out of intellect and emotion.
Focus is an exploration of dance memories in the conscious and subsconcious mind. It seeks to blend the different dance vocabularies of a multicultural society to create a dance language that is at the same time unique and reminiscent of its origins.
They focus on specific parts of their bodies in order to understand their movements as whole. And as their bodies speak different choreographic languages, tracing a journey of the accumulated dance memories over time, deconstructed traces of hip hop, Butoh, traditional Asian and contemporary dance meld together to reveal a unique new aesthetic—a new dance language born out of intellect and emotion.
Focus is an exploration of dance memories in the conscious and subsconcious mind. It seeks to blend the different dance vocabularies of a multicultural society to create a dance language that is at the same time unique and reminiscent of its origins.
Olé Khamchanla
Dancer and co-choreographer of A'CORPS Company from 1997 to 2011, Olé Khamchanla now runs his own company, KHAM Cie, founded in 2011. Born in Laos, he discovered hip hop dance in 1990 and went on to study hip hop, capoeira, contemporary dance, and Butoh.
At A'CORPS Company, Olé collaborated to create several works that established his own choreographic language. In 2006, he travelled to Laos and Thailand to learn their traditional dance forms, resulting in his first solo work Kham. Since then, Olé has continued to enrich his dance vocabulary through engagements in Asia and Europe.
Dancer and co-choreographer of A'CORPS Company from 1997 to 2011, Olé Khamchanla now runs his own company, KHAM Cie, founded in 2011. Born in Laos, he discovered hip hop dance in 1990 and went on to study hip hop, capoeira, contemporary dance, and Butoh.
At A'CORPS Company, Olé collaborated to create several works that established his own choreographic language. In 2006, he travelled to Laos and Thailand to learn their traditional dance forms, resulting in his first solo work Kham. Since then, Olé has continued to enrich his dance vocabulary through engagements in Asia and Europe.
In 2010. Olé created the first international dance festival in Laos, FANG MAE KHONG (Listen to the Mekong). The festival has taken place annually since 2010, with the aim to promote and facilitate movement of artists from Southeast Asia abroad, while enabling the exchange of international artists. The festival also encourages cultural development in Laos through its support of young artists.
Chan Sze-Wei
Sze-Wei stepped into a dance class as a university physical education class requirement when she was 20, and she hasn’t stopped dancing since. She attended the Limon Dance School in New York, studying with teachers such as Risa Steinberg and Betty Jones. In 2011, she completed a dance diploma with an emphasis in choreography as the Best Dance Graduate at the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts, Singapore.
Sze-Wei has performed works by Albert Tiong, Peter Chin, Raka Maitra, Ricky Sim, Larry Clark, Donato Ferrer, Melissa Quek, Jamaludin Jalil and Michael Teichmann, and has toured to Delhi and New York with Nirmala Seshadri’s experimental bharatanatyam work This and That. Her choreographies presented include The Always Sea (2011), Clean (2011), Have You Eaten? (2011), Para Carlos (2006), and Transit (2005).
Sze-Wei stepped into a dance class as a university physical education class requirement when she was 20, and she hasn’t stopped dancing since. She attended the Limon Dance School in New York, studying with teachers such as Risa Steinberg and Betty Jones. In 2011, she completed a dance diploma with an emphasis in choreography as the Best Dance Graduate at the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts, Singapore.
Sze-Wei has performed works by Albert Tiong, Peter Chin, Raka Maitra, Ricky Sim, Larry Clark, Donato Ferrer, Melissa Quek, Jamaludin Jalil and Michael Teichmann, and has toured to Delhi and New York with Nirmala Seshadri’s experimental bharatanatyam work This and That. Her choreographies presented include The Always Sea (2011), Clean (2011), Have You Eaten? (2011), Para Carlos (2006), and Transit (2005).
Jereh Leong
Jereh graduated from the Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance (SEAD) in 2010. He was active in the school's Bodhi Project performing Walking Chakra by Oleg Soulimenko (Moscow/Vienna), touring Salzburg, Vienna and London. He also performed for Diego Gil (Argentina/Amsterdam) at Szene Salzburg 2010. His solo work SinnLich was coached by Martin Sonderkamp and presented at his graduation. Before SEAD, Jereh trained at the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts (Singapore) and Jitterbugs Swingapore.
In 2011, he performed and choreographed in Singapore at the international premiere of the VAN GOGH ALIVE exhibition at the ArtScience Museum as well as in Fireball, a multi-disciplinary performance art collective event at the Substation.
Jereh graduated from the Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance (SEAD) in 2010. He was active in the school's Bodhi Project performing Walking Chakra by Oleg Soulimenko (Moscow/Vienna), touring Salzburg, Vienna and London. He also performed for Diego Gil (Argentina/Amsterdam) at Szene Salzburg 2010. His solo work SinnLich was coached by Martin Sonderkamp and presented at his graduation. Before SEAD, Jereh trained at the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts (Singapore) and Jitterbugs Swingapore.
In 2011, he performed and choreographed in Singapore at the international premiere of the VAN GOGH ALIVE exhibition at the ArtScience Museum as well as in Fireball, a multi-disciplinary performance art collective event at the Substation.
Explore truth in theatre at PRISMS through the refraction and convergence of distinct perspectives – of history and mythology, philosophy and science, reason and passion, reality and absurdity.
RAW
Get closer to the creative process of artists who present their works-in-progress at RAW. These presentations are free and participants are encouraged to join artists and industry professionals in post-show dialogue and feedback sessions. www.thestudios.com.sg
