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DANCE . QUARTET

Performance Date & Time:
29 June 2013, 3pm & 8pm
Venue:
NUS, University Cultural Centre Theatre
Guest Choreographers:
Grace Leong
Liz Fong Huey Jun
Choreographers:
Benedict Soh Kian Leng
Goh Chee Seng
Composer and Musician:
Fam Hui Yuen (Kong Vong Thom, Ching)
Charissa Chia Jia Hui (Drum)
Video Footage:
Khairuddin Hussinee
Dance.Quartet – a journey through memories.
"Do not trust your memory; it is a net full of holes; the most beautiful prizes slip through it" -- Robertson Davies.
This is a local mixed bill contemporary dance production as they bring the audience through the journey of their memories, revealing the surreal world of darkness, the unspoken, the manipulation, fabrication and confusion where the nebulous boundary separating fantasy and reality as well as the question of existence and reliability of the human's memory arises.
Memory is the retention of, and the ability to recall information, personal experiences and procedures (skills and habits). In this production, we transport the audience into another dimension of contemporary dance - the surrealism of memory portraying different backgrounds and characters (dane training discipline), the questioning of communication and human interaction forms while exploring the mysterious world of human memory. yet they possess but fragments of their recollections.
Dance Items
![]() Transcend Sbek Thom | ![]() Transcend Sbek Thom | ![]() Scorn of the 'Thorn' |
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![]() Scorn of the 'Thorn' | ![]() Dadaism | ![]() Dadaism |
![]() Sojourn | ![]() Sojourn |
Transcent Sbek Thom
Guest Choreographer: Grace Leong
Is only when you are being stripped away with all things, then you know what you really have.
From the glory of Angkor Kingdom to the poverty of the present, Sbek Thom (Cambodia leather puppet) survived the test of adversity and tragedy for generations, what remain reflects its true spirit.
Dada
Choreographer: Goh Chee Seng
Dadaism - an avant-garde European art form dating back to the early 20th cenury. Rejecting all reason and logic, while priming nonsense, irrationality and intuition.
With undefined concept, the dancers explore possibilities based on chance and the creation is questioned: "Do you know what they are doing...?"
Scorn of the 'Thorn'
Guest Choreographer: Liz Fong
Don't we sometimes question... The definition of our culrure
Is it mere competitiveness or is it plain 'kiasu-ism'?
An on occasions, aren't we fond, of making this senseless pleasure...
a 'thorn'?
Sojurn
Choreographer: Benedict Soh Kian Leng
Sojourn... sojournment
To reside temporarily, as that of a stranger or a traveler, as that of a memory or a thought, as that of a desire or a need,
As that of... sojourn.
This production is sponsored by
Arts Fund | Lee Foundation |Kwam Im Thong Hood Cho Temple | Golden Pagoda Buddist Temple |Metta Welfare Association