I think people should take a leaf out of THE Dance Company Guidebook. In particular, from that chapter on Being Adventurous.
Their performances of three pieces in tonight’s Edge is testament to just how willing this young company is to get out of their comfort zones and simply try something new, occasional awkward hiphop moves be damned. Continue reading ‘Contact 2010! Edge! Gangsters! Hiphop! Down with comfort zones!’
I’m looking at Contact 2010’s programme and I realised all the shows are, if I must pull out that card, value for money. The opening show last weekend had three pieces. The coming show Edge has four. The studio presentations at least four each time. A bargain don’t you think?
Tonight’s Momento also presented four pieces: Lee Ren Xin’s Do You Miss Me? (picture), Alison Chong’s Deafening Silence and Cumulus by Yarra Ileto (all performed by THE Second Company) and Taiwanese Chou Shu-Yi’s solo Start With The Body. Continue reading ‘Contact 2010! Momento! Lightbulb! Chairs!’
Fresh from their Paris/Dubai tour, T.H.E. Dance Company will now be doing some hip-hop.
Word up.
For one of their performances at their Contact 2010 contemporary dance festival (or “intensive” as they like to call it), they’ll be wearing all white and doing lots of hip-hop stuff. Seriously. No bling though.
But actually it’s a collaboration with Korean choreographer/composer Kim Jae Duk titled Bohemian Parody.
They performed the opening sequence for a casual preview this afternoon at NUS’s dance studio.
See the sneakers? Word. Continue reading ‘Contact 2010! Sneak peak! Swee Boon and gang go hip hop!’
