Dance Dance Dance

TheatreWorks / 72-13 (and lotsa V.I.S.T.A Lab artists) present:


Dance Dance Dance
3 April 2008 to 5 April 2008, 8pm
72-13
Tickets at $28 and concession tickets at $15
Discount for purchase of 5 tickets and above

‘Virtual Reality is given a new spin in this dance combined with video art to depict the search for lost love’ performance.’ Life!, Straits Times, 21 March 2008

Sojourn with us to the plane that straddles between reality and dreams, unearth together with us the ardent emotions of the past, the present and the future.

Conceived and directed by Choy Ka Fai, choreographed and performed by Joavien Ng, DANCE DANCE DANCE will provoke and spellbound with its enchanting multi-disciplinary virtuosity of contemporary dance and multi-media inter-activity. Sensitive yet intense, this performance revives perspectives on the relationship between the physical body and moving images; convenes an introspective dialogue between video and dance.

NC16 (Some Nudity)

Call now at 67377213, or email at publicity@theatreworks.org.sg for tickets. Enjoy discount for purchase of 5 tickets and above.

Conceived + Directed + Multimedia Design
Choy Ka Fai

Performed + Choreography
Joavien Ng

Sceneography + Illustration
Mohd Fared Jainal

Set Design
Torrance Goh /FARMWORK

Interaction Design
Khoo Eng Tat

Sound Design
Jeffrey Yue

Clothing Design
Grace Tan/kwodrent

Dramaturgy
Ken Ikeda

VISTA LAB 2.0: INTERFERENCE performance documentation

At long last!



The photo documentation is mostly at Ka Fai's Picasa site. But here's some of it:










Here's a photovideo for the hell of it too:

Talkback Session 2

Why does Ka5 keep introducing me as "a writer who wants to perform"?



Fun fact: the black dress Joavien wears has 1,392 points of stitching (all by hand). These were entered as data based on their X and Y-co-ordinates, which were thus translated into musical information on treble and bass respectively.

Poem by Machine01

That is, Paviter Singh, intern and multimedia technician for this show.

Caught in the circumference of a storm,
PI is no longer constant,
But it is.

Torrance (our set designer) noted that part of his rubric for this production was to allow the tech crew to be the stars for once. They're set in the centre of the space, with the audience sitting/wandering around them and the mad performers only inhabiting the periphery.

Lovely poem and very, very apt.

End of first performance!

And we got a standing ovation (of course got no chairs, so got not so many places to sit).

Now doing the talkback.


Some nuggets of criticism from director Jeffrey Tan:

"I loved the experience, but everything was in the words and the words were telling me something else. And yet I'm reduced to seeing full sentences. And that was very jarring. And if there's one thing you should change is not to have full sentences. Every day we're being given full sentences, being told what to think. We need to avoid that."

"This is very clean. This is very clear. This is almost like meditative. I would like there to be more interference."

VISTA LAB 1.0: IMPETUS on Youtube

Our first workshop presentation, caught in rapid-succession photo stills. Check out Ka Fai's other Youtube trailers here.

IMPETUS

Come watch our first production!

Several historical events escaped people’s memories, seemingly deemed insignificant in our invention of a vibrant, global city. With the aid of self-made and customised audio-visual devices, this multi-disciplinary presentation explores how these occurrences could be recorded, forgotten and fabricated, focusing on the moments and impulses before they transpired.

[Actually hor, we're doing interpretations of memory/history of Singapore in the 1980s. -Yish]

The collaborating creatives for this performance/installation are Ka Fai, Zul, Yi-Sheng, Torrance, Patricia, Joavien, Fared and Andy.

Date : 21, 22 September 2007
Time : 8pm
Venue : 72-13 Mohamed Sultan Rd (located next to The Pier) Singapore 239007
Admission: $5

To book seats, ring: 6737 7213 or email : tworks@singnet.com.sg

www.theatreworks.org.sg
www.72-13.com