Festival Insights
Hear artists share first-hand about their work and the creation process. This year, these short videos will feature all Asian and new commissioned works for the Singapore Arts Festival 2011.
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Beautiful Thing 2
Listen in on a conversation with Padmini Chettur as she offers her take on how dance, the body and its memories come together in one of this year’s distinctively multi-cultured production.
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Festival Insights – The Wright Brothers
Come experience history through the tale of two of history’s well-loved inventors, the Wright Brothers, in this latest offering from Oxford Playhouse, helmed by director Toby Hulse.
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Festival Insights – HERStory
Get an intimate glimpse behind the scenes with scriptwriter Otto Fong and director Kok Heng Leun, to one of the Festival’s exciting new local commissions.
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Festival Insights – Re: Almost Left Behind
Come discover what the creators of this multidisciplinary performance, Tan Liting and Thong Peiqin, have to say about what audiences can expect in this work by Thespis, an arts-interest group led by NUS Theatre Studies students and alumni members.
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Festival Insights – When A Gray Taiwanese Cow Stretched
Be acquainted with writer and director Yukichi Matsumoto as he reveals the significance of staging this year’s spectacular opening production for the first time out of Japan, in Singapore.
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Festival Insights – Crack
How can dance reconcile with this year’s theme I Want To Remember? Hear Arco Renz’s take on the movement between history and choreography, which he investigates in one of this year’s dance commission, Crack.
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Festival Insights – In The Middle
Come find out why the T.H.E. Dance Company is being touted as one of the local arts groups to look out for, through a special sneak preview with choreographer Foo Yun Ying.
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Festival Insights – Singapore
Let Haresh Sharma and Alvin Tan whet your appetite as they bring you a short tease of what to expect at one of this year’s hottest commissions, SINGAPORE, by The Necessary Stage.
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Festival Insights – The Conference of The Birds
Find out how Jeremiah Choy, director of this year’s staging of The Conference of The Birds, brings new meaning to this classic about a journey of a group of birds who seek their king to answer their questions.
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Festival Insights – Memory II: Hunger
Get to know the artists of Memory II: Hunger, as they relate their feelings in anticipation of this 8-hour epic- one that promises to glue audiences in their seat in its recreation of the Great Famine of China.
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Festival Insights – The 1955 Baling Talks
For those who missed out on you this sold out production, come hear what Mark Teh, its creative director, and his team of designers have to say about recreating this piece of history with an edge.