Front Row

Datuk Ramli's choreography, inspired by Asian dance vocabularies, will take the audience on a quintessential journey where the colours and movement of Asian modern dances are infused with exalted sounds of these great composers--Debussy, Ravel and Stravinsky. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Making the idyllic kampung the domain to separate the wheat from the chaff that live in the city.  And then capture how these urbanites navigate the challenges in this unfamiliar terrain and turn that visual documentation into a reality show. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Singing national anthems for several foreign embassies, singing the Negaraku, singing Sondheim and Weill. Sandra Wolf gives a preview of her first solo performance after gigs with a jazz bands, a classical wind ensemble and on stage in musicals. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This twice-nominated Best Musical Performer for the Cameronian Awards takes the stage for a solo performance. This showcase, titled, "A Bun In The Oven - The Musical Journey” presents the performer pregnant with her third child. In this show Tria tells, through a rendition of songs and anecdotes, how motherhood changes her views on love. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Pusaka takes us back to the country’s traditional dances. Here is a dance that is performed to appease or invoke the spirits of the sea. This pre-Islamic performance is associated with a story about a sea-princess and a fisherman which precipitated in a war between man and sea-spirits. Of course, both eventually arrived at a happy resolution followed by sacrifices to appease the sea and all...

From immaterial to an artwork that is material and tangible. The process is as meaningful as the outcome; the process shapes the outcome. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this solo exhibition entitled ‘Truth or Dare’, Danish artist, Charlotte Donvang goes deep into spirituality and taps into psychic capabilities to manifest that interior landscape on canvas, in order to dare both herself and her audience to confront their personal truths. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This is part of a series on drumming in conjunction with a drumming and rhythm festival and conference. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Looking at Malaysia through a documentary on the changes that have taken place between the time before the the 13th General Elections and after. The documentary details the observations through the eyes of six personalities from the arts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Mokhtar Samba, drummer, lends his sound to Malaysian jazz, weaving it with Michael Veerapen's trio in an African Jazz Project. Singers Dasha Logan and Cheryl Tan will contribute their voices too. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

An American whodunit comedy resets to Malaysia. A murder happens in an apartment above a hair salon in Happy Gardens, Section 17, Petaling Jaya and you, the Malaysian audience, get to play the armchair detective and help solve the crime. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

A great contemporary literary voice passed away this past week, Maya Angelou: an internationally renowned poet, educator, historian and author. Add to that list, an accomplished actress, playwright, producer, and director. She received an emmy nomination for best supporting actress in the television series Roots (Alex Haley) and received the coveted Golden Eagle Award for the PBS documentary "Afro...

He paints the earth’s fault lines, its creases and deep thrusts to manifest the earth’s sublime and equally terrible beauty. This beauty born of monumental forces compels us to reflect on our place as transient beings traversing the landscape. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This is part of a series on drumming in conjunction with a drumming and rhythm festival and conference. Drumming is more than just an activity to create music but a glue for the individual to become integrated and for the community to knit together. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Looking back at three productions that were staged in May: 'Karya Lengkap Shakespeare' ('The Complete Works of Shakespeare Abridged'), 'Never Eat Too Much Before Rapture' and 'Girl X'. The reviewers, Zalfian Fuzi and Sharaad Kuttan answer the question of relevance of these works in a Malaysian context and whether theatre is all about creating laughter or more. (image above, courtesy of Wikipedia)...

Last year the locally organized Freedom Film Fest received more than 250 entries from around the world, then screened more than 50 films across six states in the country, including Singapore, Indonesia, Burma and Cambodia. The festival, first surfaced in 2003, is back with the theme of ‘Freedom’. Still encouraging entries, the organizers announce that the deadline for submission is Jul...

Organising music workshops and masterclasses with foreign music educators, a festival with a concert and competitions, EuroAsia Youth Music Festival and Competition seeks to ensure long-lasting interests in music and to strengthen relationships among musicians. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Chuah Shu Ruei will be participating in two upcoming events, “Fruit in Kind” :1Cares Women’s Art Exhibition and the Langkawi Art Biennale 2014. She tells how hard work and constant application to exhibit and to compete won her a spot in an international show, and after that the path much easier. Festival and gallery curators call her now. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy i...

Winsome tropical seven-piece jazz band brings a tropical jazz with original compositions. The group called Tropic Green has an album titled Jazz from the Tropics. Must be sticky and hot. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The artist is undertaking a social art project to collect ‘beautiful’, ‘visual moments’ from Malaysians. After collecting almost 2000 beautiful moments in Europe and Asia and giving a TEDx talk on her project, Ms Willems visits the 22nd country of her journey: ours. From May 14th till May 25th she will collect beautiful moments here. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy...

An award-winning singer who is in KL for two weekends. She has a traveling show in which she sings songs performed by (Dame) Julie Andrews in films, and weaves stories and anecdotes about the star’s  life. This show has received rave reviews in Adelaide, Berlin, New York, London. In KL Sarah-Louise will be performing some of the greatest 20th century English-language songs. One of her s...

Sergey is a musician from the Ukraine touring the region. He has a ‘musical traveling project’ called Make Like a Tree in which he records songs inspired by meetings with musicians in different places of the world, who play in dissimilar musical styles. Each concert is played with new members and can turn Make Like A Tree into a duo or into quite a large improvising ensemble. He writes...

Offering a kind of the-performer-is-the-character kind of show, with the performers telling their stories of events which really did happen. No need for a suspension of disbelief since these tales are true! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Fresh out of college, he is kicking off a special recital in Singapore, Penang and Kuala Lumpur. Bryan Lee offers the public the music of an instrument not often heard. He is an active and ardent orchestral player: a founding member of the Malaysian Philharmonic Youth Orchestra; a member of the Penang Philharmonic Orchestra; the Orchestra of the Music Makers on their tour to Penang; the Yong Siew...

How effective is art in changing culture and behavior? ‘The Good Malaysian Woman: Ethnicity, Religion, Politics’, is organised by the All Women’s Action Society (AWAM) and Interpr8 Art Space to enable public discourse and personal inquiry. Works are by 22 artists: their views, thoughts, representation of what it means to be a woman in Malaysia today. See omnystudio.com/listener f...