Front Row

The poet gives a history of his visual art practice and why he doesn’t do much drawing and painting as he did.  However, every now and then he is moved to express graphically, when words can’t quite express.  His exhibition at Xin Art Space, ends this weekend on Sunday.   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The cast tells about this David Mamet play which examines how to deal with life: stand on the sidelines and watch or pretend you’re not affected; or get down and dirty and deal with it. And facing up to the less than happy circumstances.   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Taking Shakespeare’s bloody Scotsman and dressing him and his lady in the traditional clothes of Chinese Opera. What does that do to the play? How are we informed differently, when witches are like ‘kwais’?   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Revisiting a musical and updating it to reflect the social questions and issues being faced. The producer also tells not only a brief history of ‘Uda dan Dara’ but of its various incarnations. The music director’s take on making the music contemporary. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Performances that point out that being associated with hearth is to be associated with the fire that gives and shapes life. Not just in the domestic sphere but in the public domain. The performer-producer comments on bringing strong female characters to the stage. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Helping take away the veil that cloaks contemporary art  in mystique, the educator provides some broad definitions and ways to interact with this art.  She is a graduate from Christie's--the same auction house that specializes in art.   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Love has its politics and pain. Using bubble-wrap the artist explores a metaphor for love. Artist Chi Too sheds some light on his creative process . See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Only second year in its existence, this ambitious theatre company has partnered up with others to offer a five-day performing arts festival.   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This live show celebrating the songs and dances of Michael Jackson--the undisputed king of pop--comes to town and the lead gives us the crotch-clutching lowdown on putting this performance together. She also tells us about her unusual audition and the hard work needed to succeed in this industry. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The musician lectures music at an academy and so shares the changing shape of jazz music as played by the younger generation. What are their influences? But beyond the rich Polish music tradition the changing technologies and the evolving trumpet. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

She ‘paints’ without a brush. Instead she does with a basketball; chopsticks; cups, staining the base with coffee; with flowers; even with socks. The artist talks about her creative process and the business of art. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The wheelchair bound choreographer and dancer who was a winner of the  World Wheelchair Dance Championship, talks about the need to dance in order to find himself. And then extending his dance-and-movement knowledge to other people who are also in wheelchairs but who also desire to experience dance and movements not limited by the practical considerations of getting from point A to B. See omn...

Explaining children’s theatre and what productions do to take these very young patrons of the arts into an imaginary world, engaging them and making them think, evaluate and feel. Of course, the inevitable question: Where does moral ambiguity fit into this kind of world? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

After his sojourn in Berlin, Germany, the dancer encapsulates his journey and experiences in dances that he himself choreographed, and in some, danced. The music is composed and provided by Christoph Wirth, a Berliner. Joelle Jacinto joins to tell about this full-length contemporary dance. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

A discussion on Bricolage, an exhibition by artists who are spending their residency at Rimbun Dahan. Bricolage because these artists, collectively, present works which are different not only in their genres and medium used, but also in their perspectives. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The singer-lyricist, Janet Lee and the music composer-director, Tay Cher Siang unfold the reasons and describe the four-year process to produce this music collection (in a CD) and the accompanying solo concert. Sometimes the composition begins with the lyrics first, sometimes with the music dictating but both beginning with the singer and her style in mind. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy...

The pianist-performer, because he acts beyond tickling the ivory keys, tells about his part piano recital, part fantasy lecture, which presents all the physical, emotional and spiritual anatomy of the piano.  He dissects the piano and we dissect his methods. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Os Arun will be concert at the Temple of Fine Arts and so we learn about this carnatic musician who is described as ‘most gifted of his generation’.  This singer has appeared as Kovalan in an Indian Opera held as part of the offerings in the Singapore Arts Festival. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Here two years ago, the New York-based, Hong Kong-born guitarist is back in town to play jazz. He takes the opportunity to give us a view into the contributions of the electric guitar to jazz and how the guitar lends to improvisation. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The local singer tells why he’s celebrating an American singer, songwriter and record producer. In the course of the conversation, Vince reveals how a performer must be savvy about the entertainment business and not merely rely on his god-given talent. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Taking the mundane complaint and a tweaking with humor. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In the many-layered world of dance, tango brings to mind wafts of saucy music and couples passionately swerving away together. With the Kuala Lumpur Tango Festival coming up in mid-March, we delve into this phenomenon and where it could possibly lead the future of local dance. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Reviewing ‘Mahabharata'; 'Dance Dance Asia’ and ‘Cakap Dapur’ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Nominally trained, if they were, these artists produced very colourful, tongue-in-cheek works which, at first glance, come off as unsophisticated, childlike, naive and maybe even primitive. The energy is palpable, making the illustrated images appear to leap off the canvas. A closer inspection reveals an order, not measured with a ruler but born of a keen intuition fed on living close to the stree...

Wayang Kulit goes overseas with Pusaka. A locally out-of-the-spotlight traditional performing arts, gets some American attention. The folks at Pusaka explains the need to perform overseas when local performances are rare.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.