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The Hong Kong Arts Festival 2008, like many other international arts festivals worldwide, is not just a showcase of works by internationally acclaimed companies from all corners of the globe. It commissions and presents new works by well-established local artists as well, adding width and depth to a delicious feast of performing arts and allowing for both inter-cultural and intra-cultural discourse. ....
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Awash in the tide, Pina Bausch's transcendental "Vollmond" is fluid in spirit as well as movement.The cultural scene in Hong Kong has recently been vibrant, with art lovers getting the chance to celebrate, ever since Valentine's Day, the year's largest gathering of local and international performance artists. And of all 82 programmes offered in the 36th Hong Kong Arts Festival, one of bigge....
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Theatre Zingaro shows why the four-legged--well, six-legged, actually--Olympic events are coming to the SAR this summer.In the round, 1,300-seat performance tent on the lawn by Hong Kong's Hung Hom ferry pier, Theatre Zingaro (Italian for "gypsy") is thrilling viewers with pace, precision, passion and creativity in a spectacular horse show entitled "Battuta". With freedom the them....
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Local pantomime troupe Babymime - an audience favourite from "Pantomime in Bangkok" and the "Bangkok Theatre Festival" - teams up with veteran stage director Nikorn Saetang for their first full-scale, solo production, "Babymime Show Vol. 1". Thailand's only professional pantomime company, Babymime comprises Ratchai "Nging" Rujiwipatna, Nuttapol "Ta" K....
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Since opening its new playhouse, Muangthai Rachadalai Theatre, in May last year, house company Scenario has staged four commercially successful musical productions. The three local musicals, "Fah Jarod Sai", "Luk Khun Luang" and "Banlang Mek", all received the TV soap treatment, while "Cats" was an Australian production deigned for rural audiences in South Kore....
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Act 3 International, Singapore's leading company in drama and theatre in education is holding "Prudential Children First!: Singapore International Festival for Children" from March 1 to 9. I recently had an email interview with Ruby Lim-Yang, Act 3's artistic director:Q: I was reading the Festival Guide [I got it from a SISTIC outlet there last month on a 1-day trip], and really like what y....
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