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Singapore Arts Festival 2005 |
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The Season of Brilliance |
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26 May - 26 Jun 2005 |
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The most brilliant gems in the arts from all over
the world will be on display in Singapore when the annual Singapore Arts
Festival returns this June. |
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An international arts festival with a distinctive
Asian flavour, the 2005 Singapore Arts Festival will feature some 4,400
artists from 27 countries and regions in 22 main productions and over 400 free
performances, exhibitions and special events, offering something for everyone. |
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With a mix of mainstream and classical
productions, contemporary and cutting-edge programmes, the Festival has
established a strong identity as a bold, progressive Festival that presents
original and innovative works, promotes international collaborations, as well
as introducing new or emerging faces that are catching the attention of the
world all over. |
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Core Productions |
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The core productions will have four blockbusters,
five world premieres, three Asian premieres and four co-productions involving
festivals and arts organisations in Hong Kong, China, Korea and Europe. |
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Opening the Festival on 26 May is the blockbuster
production Amber, directed by Meng Jinghui, one of China’s most influential
contemporary theatre directors. |
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This music theatre spectacle of love in
contemporary China, presented by the National Theatre Company of China,
features actor Liu Ye (刘烨), winner of the Golden Horse Award and Golden
Rooster Award for Best Actor, and established actress Yuan Quan （袁泉）. |
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Other blockbusters include The Philadelphia
Orchestra led by legendary conductor Christoph Eschenbach and featuring star
Chinese pianist, Lang Lang in the first of the two-night performance, The
Royal Ballet with Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake, as well as celebrated circus group
Les Arts Sauts swinging into action with Ola Kala. |
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The Festival continues to make its mark for the
incubation and presentation of exciting world premieres. Belgium dance group
Ultima Vez and Wim Vandekeybus, one of Europe’s most inventive choreographers,
given a 2-week residency in Singapore, will show off a new work combining
dance and film, entitled Puur. After Singapore, the work will be presented at
the Festival d’ Avignon. |
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The other four world premieres are powerful,
thought-provoking works presented by Singaporean companies working with
international artists. |
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Set in an intimate prison setting of cold cells,
steel and closed circuit security cameras, Impenjarament by Teater Ekamatra is
a devised ensemble performance by eight male performers from Indonesia, India
and Singapore, examining ideas of masculinity, machismo and eroticism of the
Malay psyche. |
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Spirits by Toy Factory Ensemble is a new music
theatre work directed by Singapore’s award-winning director Goh Boon Teck.
Fusing contemporary theatre and music styles with the traditions of five
Chinese opera forms, the work revisits the secrets and lives of five infamous
beauties spanning 5000 years of Chinese history whose tragic fates are
intertwined with the fall of China’s dynasties. |
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In Stravinsky Dances, the Singapore Dance Theatre
collaborates with multi-talented French choreographer, Marie-Claude
Pietragalla to present a double bill based on composer Stravinsky’s The Rite
of Spring and Les Noces. Conducted by Lim Yau, Les Noces features the
remarkable State Choir “Latvija” and pianists Shane Thio, Lim Yan, Eleanor Tan
and Beatrice Lim. |
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The Singapore Chinese Orchestra will present a new
musical epic, Zheng He – Admiral of the Seven Seas, written by composer Law
Wai Lun, to mark the 600th anniversary of the year the Admiral embarked on his
great voyages of discovery and diplomacy. It will not only bring together a
stellar group of top vocalists, a scriptwriter and a librettist, it will also
incorporate traditional Malay and Chinese dances. |
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Three international productions make their Asian
premieres at the Festival. Crossing the boundaries of architecture, visual
arts, theatre and music, Theremin by Hotel Pro Forma will take us through a
century of inventions and developments in electronic music, world history and
an individual’s life that led to the discovery of the instrument theremin. |
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Heavenly Bento by post theater new york | berlin,
is an inventive, exclusive and intimate re-telling of a global economic
success story, set atop a huge table around which only 30 audiences will be
seated as guests in the company’s anniversary celebration. |
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Having sold-out his performances of D.A.V.E. in
the 2000 Singapore Arts Festival, award winning composer and media artist
Klaus Obermaier returns with Apparition, a collaborative multi-media dance
performance that integrates motion sensor and tracking technology, blurring
the lines between dance, digital image and sound. |
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More..... |
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Source:
National Arts Council Press Release 4 Apr
2005 |
Singapore Arts Festival 2005
