Dance and Theatre

Previews, Interviews, and Reviews (yes, and Photos) of Dance and Theatre in Thailand (well, and elsewhere) written by "The Nation" dance and theatre critics
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Thursday , November 19 , 2009

Sibling RIVELRY

Posted by dance_and_theatre , Reader : 123 , 07:23:46 | Category : Theatre 2009

With the uplifting Blood Brothers, the Bangkok Community Theatre offers some cash-crisis consolation.The Bangkok Community Theatre (BCT) hopes to cheer up everyone with Blood Brothers, a rousing musical about twin brothers separated at birth to lead "prince and pauper" lives. The brothers fall in love with the same woman and tragedy looms, but this is ultimately "a bright, high-energy,....

With the uplifting Blood Brothers, the Bangkok Community Theatre offers some cash-crisis consolation.The Bangkok Community Theatre (BCT) hopes to cheer up everyone with Blood Brothers, a rousing musical about twin brothers separated at birth to lead "prince and pauper" lives. The brothers fall in love with the same woman and tragedy looms, but this is ultimately "a bright, high-energy,....

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Wednesday , November 18 , 2009

PROMENADE Performance

Posted by dance_and_theatre , Reader : 97 , 08:45:37 | Category : Theatre 2009 Singapore Arts Festival 2009

A new approach to performance pulls viewers in, blurring the line between theatre and real life. Arts festivals offer more than ticketed performances and free street shows these days – they give us new experiences in innovative theatre. These take place outside the arts centres and playhouses, in places we regularly frequent, like cafes, and sometimes it’s the viewers who become the actors. I experie....

A new approach to performance pulls viewers in, blurring the line between theatre and real life. Arts festivals offer more than ticketed performances and free street shows these days – they give us new experiences in innovative theatre. These take place outside the arts centres and playhouses, in places we regularly frequent, like cafes, and sometimes it’s the viewers who become the actors. I experie....

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Tuesday , November 17 , 2009

MEKONG FESTIVAL: a reach as long as the river

Posted by dance_and_theatre , Reader : 132 , 19:17:26 | Category : Dance 2009 Theatre 2009

The Philippine Educational Theatre Association extends its aid to nurture far-flung arts groups and address their social challenges. Theatre can entertain—and it can also foment change in society. In fact, if theatre's sole purpose were entertainment, it would not have survived the advent of film and television. Witness the Mekong Arts and Media Festival “Weaving Cultures, Weaving Visions” from Novem....

The Philippine Educational Theatre Association extends its aid to nurture far-flung arts groups and address their social challenges. Theatre can entertain—and it can also foment change in society. In fact, if theatre's sole purpose were entertainment, it would not have survived the advent of film and television. Witness the Mekong Arts and Media Festival “Weaving Cultures, Weaving Visions” from Novem....

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Sunday , November 15 , 2009

a MIXED bag of MOVES

Posted by dance_and_theatre , Reader : 153 , 01:15:19 | Category : Dance 2009 Theatre 2009

Three Sisters was more memorable than We’re Gonna Go Dancing 2009.Within the span of less than two weeks in August, Japan Foundation and Patravadi Theatre co-hosted two contemporary dance events, involving four works by Japanese performing artists and one by local troupe as part of the Mekong-Japan exchange year. On August 14, Japan Contemporary Dance Network (JCDN) was back in town after the success....

Three Sisters was more memorable than We’re Gonna Go Dancing 2009.Within the span of less than two weeks in August, Japan Foundation and Patravadi Theatre co-hosted two contemporary dance events, involving four works by Japanese performing artists and one by local troupe as part of the Mekong-Japan exchange year. On August 14, Japan Contemporary Dance Network (JCDN) was back in town after the success....

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Saturday , November 14 , 2009

CLOUD GATE blows open

Posted by dance_and_theatre , Reader : 136 , 23:18:32 | Category : Dance 2009 Bangkok Festivals 2009

Two performances—in Bangkok and London—show different sides of Taiwan’s top contemporary dance company. Weeks have passed and people are still talking about Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan’s first visit to Bangkok when they staged two unforgettable performances of Moon Water, as part of Bangkok’s 11th Festival of Dance and Music. The financial and administrative efforts of the Taipei Economic and ....

Two performances—in Bangkok and London—show different sides of Taiwan’s top contemporary dance company. Weeks have passed and people are still talking about Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan’s first visit to Bangkok when they staged two unforgettable performances of Moon Water, as part of Bangkok’s 11th Festival of Dance and Music. The financial and administrative efforts of the Taipei Economic and ....

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Friday , November 13 , 2009

Bangkok STAGE full of Japanese SKILLS

Posted by dance_and_theatre , Reader : 142 , 08:36:22 | Category : Dance 2009 Theatre 2009

The Japan Foundation is bringing in top talents to share with Thai artists and audiences. Thanks in part to Japan-Mekong Exchange Year, the Japan Foundation Bangkok has become the city's most active cultural organisation. It has two visual arts exhibitions—“Twist and Shout” and “Here and Now”—on view at the Art and Culture Centre and 100 Tonson Gallery, and on the way to Thailand are a contemporary d....

The Japan Foundation is bringing in top talents to share with Thai artists and audiences. Thanks in part to Japan-Mekong Exchange Year, the Japan Foundation Bangkok has become the city's most active cultural organisation. It has two visual arts exhibitions—“Twist and Shout” and “Here and Now”—on view at the Art and Culture Centre and 100 Tonson Gallery, and on the way to Thailand are a contemporary d....

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Friday , November 6 , 2009

TISTOU and his GREEN thumbs

Posted by dance_and_theatre , Reader : 156 , 22:28:16 | Category : Theatre 2009 Bangkok Festivals 2009

With Crescent Moon Theatre's actors and Kae Dam Dam's puppeteers pulling the strings, puppets conspire to bring about world peace.Silpathorn laureate Sineenadh "Nad" Keitprapai, artistic director of Crescent Moon Theatre (Phra Chan Siew Kan Lakorn), has long been a fan of the puppet-theatre troupe Kae Dam Dam (literally "blackish sheep"), and was keen to collaborate. “His string p....

With Crescent Moon Theatre's actors and Kae Dam Dam's puppeteers pulling the strings, puppets conspire to bring about world peace.Silpathorn laureate Sineenadh "Nad" Keitprapai, artistic director of Crescent Moon Theatre (Phra Chan Siew Kan Lakorn), has long been a fan of the puppet-theatre troupe Kae Dam Dam (literally "blackish sheep"), and was keen to collaborate. “His string p....

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Wednesday , November 4 , 2009

FUN+

Posted by dance_and_theatre , Reader : 117 , 07:44:00 | Category : Dance 2009

A new dance performance promises various moves and some thoughts.Fresh from performing the title character in 12 Inch Theatre's Carmen last month, dancer and choreographer Meuanphun "Orn" Ampunsang has invited some Carmen pals to join students from her Point Studio, which is celebrating its fifth anniversary, for her new production titled Phun ("Dream"). "The English title i....

A new dance performance promises various moves and some thoughts.Fresh from performing the title character in 12 Inch Theatre's Carmen last month, dancer and choreographer Meuanphun "Orn" Ampunsang has invited some Carmen pals to join students from her Point Studio, which is celebrating its fifth anniversary, for her new production titled Phun ("Dream"). "The English title i....

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Tuesday , November 3 , 2009

Interaction between FOREIGN GUESTS and LOCALS

Posted by dance_and_theatre , Reader : 179 , 00:55:45 | Category : Dance 2009 Bangkok Festivals 2009 Melbourne, October 2009

At the Fairfax Studio in Melbourne’s Arts Centre, I was listening to a Jerusalem-born, Brighton-based talk in a public forum as part of Melbourne International Arts Festival where his company was performing. As far as I enjoyed his talk, and later that evening, was impressed by his company’s performance, I had an odd feeling when an audience asked him, “How much do you know about Australian dance?”, ....

At the Fairfax Studio in Melbourne’s Arts Centre, I was listening to a Jerusalem-born, Brighton-based talk in a public forum as part of Melbourne International Arts Festival where his company was performing. As far as I enjoyed his talk, and later that evening, was impressed by his company’s performance, I had an odd feeling when an audience asked him, “How much do you know about Australian dance?”, ....

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Sunday , November 1 , 2009

DEMONS meet MERLION

Posted by dance_and_theatre , Reader : 189 , 11:46:29 | Category : Dance 2009 Theatre 2009 da:ns 2009, Esplanade

For shoppers in Singapore, the big event last weekend was the opening of Ion, yet another high-end shopping centre on Orchard Road. But for performing arts fans, it’s the ions of movement at da:ns Festival 2009 at the Esplanade – Theatres on the Bay. The highlight was the world premiere of Dunas, a collaboration of Maria Pages and Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, which met all expectations. Sharing the spotlig....

For shoppers in Singapore, the big event last weekend was the opening of Ion, yet another high-end shopping centre on Orchard Road. But for performing arts fans, it’s the ions of movement at da:ns Festival 2009 at the Esplanade – Theatres on the Bay. The highlight was the world premiere of Dunas, a collaboration of Maria Pages and Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, which met all expectations. Sharing the spotlig....

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Bangkok Theatre Festival 2009: Thailand’s Gifts to Tokyo

Posted by dance_and_theatre , Reader : 211 , 01:59:20 | Category : Theatre 2009 Bangkok Festivals 2009

Smaller in scale but still top quality, the year’s largest display of contemporary Thai theatre is ongoing, city-wide."In keeping with this year's theme, 'Lakorn Thai Unlimited', we want to focus on the real variety in Thai theatre," says New Theatre Society's Parnrut Kritchanchai, one of the producers of Bangkok Theatre Festival 2009 (BTF09)."The genres and styles may be the same as i....

Smaller in scale but still top quality, the year’s largest display of contemporary Thai theatre is ongoing, city-wide."In keeping with this year's theme, 'Lakorn Thai Unlimited', we want to focus on the real variety in Thai theatre," says New Theatre Society's Parnrut Kritchanchai, one of the producers of Bangkok Theatre Festival 2009 (BTF09)."The genres and styles may be the same as i....

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LOSING his HEAD

Posted by dance_and_theatre , Reader : 213 , 00:28:32 | Category : Dance 2009

The astonishing moves of Xavier Le Roy give artists and fans across the region much to think about. In what has been a cultural coup for Southeast Asia’s dance fans, the past fortnight has seen France-born, Berlin-based dancer and choreographer Xavier Le Roy perform three different works in three cities. First came Product of Circumstances in Jakarta, then Le Sacre du Printemps (The Rite of Spring) i....

The astonishing moves of Xavier Le Roy give artists and fans across the region much to think about. In what has been a cultural coup for Southeast Asia’s dance fans, the past fortnight has seen France-born, Berlin-based dancer and choreographer Xavier Le Roy perform three different works in three cities. First came Product of Circumstances in Jakarta, then Le Sacre du Printemps (The Rite of Spring) i....

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