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Delight in intensely colourful and
glorious performances when Singapore's annual celebration of the arts reaches
full bloom this June.
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As an international arts festival
with a distinctive Asian flavour, the 2004 Singapore Arts Festival brings
Singapore and Asia to the world and the world to Singapore with its new season
featuring more than 300 performances by 1500 artists from over 32 cities.
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International commissions, new and
the latest works, young and emerging companies, and Singaporean artists in
major collaborations continue to feature in the 2004 Festival. Audiences will
be engaged by the wide-ranging programmes from the best and latest in
contemporary works to traditional classics, massive productions to intimate
shows, which are accessible and affordable to all.
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The 2004 Festival core programme
presents four world premieres.
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The Festival Gala features the
highly sought-after young choreographer extraordinaire Akram Khan with his
newest and biggest creation to date, Ma, oven-fresh from a two-week
residency in Singapore. Ma is a co-production between the Festival and
other major festivals and arts centres from Belgium, France, Germany, the
Netherlands, UK and USA.
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Two local theatres will present
commissions based on historic events in the region. TheatreWorks collaborates
with Japanese and Australian artists to present Sandakan Threnody, an
evocative account from wartime survivors of the Borneo death march at the end
of the second World War. Sandakan is jointly presented by the Festival
with the Melbourne International Arts Festival and Brisbane Festival.
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Checkpoint Theatre presents a
chamber opera epic OPIUME, based on the opium wars and featuring music
composed by Mark Chan, performed by T'ang Quartet, musicians from Hong Kong
and western opera singers from Australia. OPIUME is jointly presented
with Hong Kong's New Vision Arts Festival.
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New exciting local dance group Ah
Hock and Peng Yu will present PENG YU, an all-male alliance with
choreographers and dancers from Singapore, Hong Kong and Taiwan.
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In addition, four international
productions will make their Asian premieres at the Festival.
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Celebrated Compañía Rafaela
Carrasco from Spain bringing their contemporary interpretations of the emotive
passion synonymous with flamenco in La Música del Cuerpo or The
Music of the Body.
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National Theatre of Northern
Greece choreographer Konstantinos Rigos brings his edgy Swan Lake City,
examining human behaviour in a trailer-park setting.
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Outstanding Brazilian
choreographer Deborah Colker brings her brand of exhilarating physical dance
in MIX.
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Also coming from the American
continent to our side of the globe is Certain Inhabitants' Theatre from Mexico
with their theatre, silent film and Japanese silent film narration tradition
benshi production El Automóvil Gris (The Grey Automobile).
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Singapore Arts Festival 2004
