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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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Friday , November 6 , 2009
TISTOU and his GREEN thumbs
Posted by dance_and_theatre , Reader : 37 , 22:28:16   | Category : Theatre 2009   Bangkok Festivals 2009  
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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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Tuesday , November 3 , 2009
Interaction between FOREIGN GUESTS and LOCALS
Posted by dance_and_theatre , Reader : 114 , 00:55:45   | Category : Dance 2009   Bangkok Festivals 2009   Melbourne, October 2009  
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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
Bangkok Theatre Festival 2009: Thailand’s Gifts to Tokyo
Posted by dance_and_theatre , Reader : 146 , 01:59:20   | Category : Theatre 2009   Bangkok Festivals 2009  
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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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Sunday , October 4 , 2009
Cloud Gate’s THAI PILLAR
Posted by dance_and_theatre , Reader : 343 , 00:54:25   | Category : Dance 2009   Theatre 2009   Bangkok Festivals 2009  
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Somkid Tiwan is a mainstay–and an inspiration–for the Taiwanese dance theatre company, who know him as Sung Chao-chiun. Somkid Tiwan moved to Taiwan at the age of 15 and went on to finish his bachelor’s degree in electronic engineering. If all went as planned, he might now be working for a semiconductor company in Taipei.Instead, he’s been performing with Asia’s most renowned contemporary-dance compa....


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Saturday , October 3 , 2009
Masterpieces from TAIWAN and CHINA
Posted by dance_and_theatre , Reader : 355 , 23:35:33   | Category : Dance 2009   Theatre 2009   Bangkok Festivals 2009  
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Bangkok’s 11th Festival of Dance and Music—Thailand’s largest showcase of international opera, ballet, dance, classical music and jazz—is running at the Thailand Cultural Centre, and the focus, as highlighted in our preview picks in August, remains on the three dance productions from Taiwan and China. Apart from the fact that Bangkok has never seen contemporary dance from Taiwan or ballet from China,....


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comparing two CARMENs
Posted by dance_and_theatre , Reader : 348 , 12:40:04   | Category : Dance 2009   Theatre 2009   Bangkok Festivals 2009  
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Two memorable adaptations of Carmen were seen in Bangkok—13 days apart.On Sunday, September 13, the Kiev Modern Ballet Theatre made a triumphant debut on these shores with Carmen TV, part of Bangkok’s 11th International Festival of Dance and Music. Thailand Cultural Centre’s main hall was not full, but that was no surprise given few dance fans have heard of this three-year-young Ukrainian company, an....


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Friday , July 24 , 2009
Bangkoks 11th International Festival of Dance and Music
Posted by dance_and_theatre , Reader : 636 , 23:50:29   | Category : Dance 2009   Theatre 2009   Bangkok Festivals 2009  
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With a slight nod to the cash crisis, this autumn's Bangkok International Festival of Dance and Music refuses to compromise on class. Let's admit it: The programme for this year's Bangkok International Festival of Dance and Music is not so diverse or cutting-edge as that of its Singapore and Hong Kong counterparts. But with 16 productions of grand operas, classical and modern ballet in addition to tr....


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Wednesday , July 15 , 2009
LA FÊTE 2009…on a roll
Posted by dance_and_theatre , Reader : 1424 , 00:50:22   | Category : Dance 2009   Theatre 2009   Bangkok Festivals 2009  
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The country’s biggest arts festival rumbles on into July after collecting big crowds for daring dance and classical music treats.On the surface, La Fête looks like a contemporary arts festival, but dig a bit deeper and you’ll find a bulging programme that has something for everyone. Two recent stage performances prove the point. Thinking inside the box On Tuesday, June 23, a few minutes after t....


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Wednesday , June 24 , 2009
FRENCH FLAIR X 3
Posted by dance_and_theatre , Reader : 498 , 10:04:58   | Category : Dance 2009   Theatre 2009   Bangkok Festivals 2009  
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Avant-garde puppetry, breakdancing to Bach, and kids-friendly clowns keep audiences glued to the fest.After dazzling Bangkok spectators with its fantastical opening show “Lands’ End” early this month, stage works at La Fête 2009 have continued to sparkle with innovation, creativity and artistry, all of which constituted the hallmark of even the festival’s subsequent smaller-scale productions. P....


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Saturday , June 20 , 2009
Starting at “LANDS’ END”
Posted by dance_and_theatre , Reader : 486 , 08:34:57   | Category : Dance 2009   Theatre 2009   Bangkok Festivals 2009  
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French-Thai cultural fest La Fête lurches into gear with a surreal treat on stage. Overseen by HRH Crown Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn, La Fête: French-Thai Cultural Festival 2009 kicked off on Wednesday, June 3 at Thailand Cultural Centre’s Main Hall, with the opening performance of the fantastical “Land’s End” (“La Fin des Terres”). A single image of a man on a cliff launching a lette....


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Tuesday , June 2 , 2009
Magnificent Meeting: Philippe Genty’s LANDS’ END
Posted by dance_and_theatre , Reader : 440 , 21:49:09   | Category : Dance 2009   Theatre 2009   Bangkok Festivals 2009  
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Ask any local fan of dance and theatre the last time he or she enjoyed an evening of sheer marvel at Thailand Cultural Centre, and the answer will almost certainly be Compagnie Montalvo-Hervieu “Rameau’s Bossa Fataka”, which closed out La Fête 2008.The good news is that the 2009 edition of the French-Thai cultural festival is set to pick up where it left off, with another equally inspiring perf....


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Saturday , May 30 , 2009
La Fête 2009: FRENCH follies with a THAI twist
Posted by dance_and_theatre , Reader : 492 , 18:33:56   | Category : Dance 2009   Theatre 2009   Bangkok Festivals 2009  
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The cream of the French and Thai art and cultural worlds gather in Bangkok for La Fête 2009. The generous servings of dance, music, theatre, film and visual arts at indoor and outdoor venues all over town boosted spectator numbers at the 2008 edition of La Fête La Fete to a very respectable half a million. So if you stopped to look at the amazing photography exhibition outside Central Wor....


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Monday , May 11 , 2009
Bangkok...Bananas!!: CONTEMPORARY CURVES
Posted by dance_and_theatre , Reader : 595 , 00:59:34   | Category : Dance 2009   Theatre 2009   Bangkok Festivals 2009  
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 Bad handling bruised the opening night but “Bangkok…Bananas!!” has unpeeled some tasty outdoor performances since then. Delicious and easy to digest, the banana is the perfect symbol for the contemporary performing arts being staged at the new festival organized by the Ministry of Culture’s Office of Contemporary Art and Culture (OCAC). But anyone who got an early taste of “Bangkok…Bananas!!” was re....


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Tuesday , April 28 , 2009
Time for BANANAS, now the pandemonium is over
Posted by dance_and_theatre , Reader : 618 , 22:14:54   | Category : Dance 2009   Theatre 2009   Bangkok Festivals 2009  
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Finally, another political upheaval is over—at least for now—, and so is what has turned a five-day Thai New Year weekend into a ten-day one, probably the longest consecutive holiday in the history of our, or any, country. It is indeed a piece of good news for all Thai people and a big sigh of relief is heard from the Ministry of Culture’s Office of Contemporary Art and Culture who’s about to hold th....


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Saturday , April 11 , 2009
BLURRING the boundaries
Posted by dance_and_theatre , Reader : 603 , 15:55:47   | Category : Dance 2009   Bangkok Festivals 2009  
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International performing arts festivals around the world now take as one of their missions to present local works, and oftentimes collaborations between local and overseas artists. This is partly to prevent a festival to become a mere showcase of foreign talents with little impact on local community. The International Dance Festival 2009 (IDF09) is no exception.Seen on Wednesday, 18th March at Centra....


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Friday , March 27 , 2009
The WHIRLED is NOT enough
Posted by dance_and_theatre , Reader : 754 , 01:01:40   | Category : Dance 2009   Bangkok Festivals 2009  
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Beyond the tricksy traditional fare, there's real emotional magic at the International Dance Festival 2009.The annual festival has come with a few changes. Despite the economy, the festival turns out to have attracted a larger number of international troupes than ever before, hence engaging more performing arts venues especially indoor theatres, as well as contributing to its inaugural organisation o....


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Saturday , March 14 , 2009
DAZZLING footwork
Posted by dance_and_theatre , Reader : 834 , 16:09:04   | Category : Dance 2009   Bangkok Festivals 2009  
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Ongoing until March 25, the world's leading dance troupes show off their best moves in Bangkok, Chiang Mai and Phuket as part of International Dance Festival 2009.“The past eight festivals have played a part, along with other dance activities in Thailand, in showing to the general public that contemporary dance is not that difficult to understand—for me, it’s easier than classical ballet,” says Varar....


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