A platform for 10 young choreographers from ASWARA to explore their creativity.

Saturday, 26 June 2010

The Actors Studio, Rooftop Lot10 Shopping Centre

8.30pm

Tickets RM10, buy at the door

Featuring breakout choreographers:

• Naimsyahrazad – Seasons

• Fione Chia Yan Wei – Another Me

• Gloria Patie – Ruai

• Marrulhuda dan Murni – M2M

• Fairul Zahid – Not Only Me

• Hasmizan, Nurul Dhurar, Sufie Ashraf, Yang Mardhiah, Munirih, Denny Donius - Us

Dancebox June 2010 encourages students from ASWARA to test their creations, be more independent and cooperate with other people in the dance industry. Through this exercise, they will learn organisational and communication skills crucial for survival.

Dancebox June 2010 is also an avenue for ASWARA students to increase their marketability and reach a new audience. This performance is a collaboration between ASWARA, MyDance Alliance and The Actors Studio at Lot 10.

For more information, contact:

Chee Ah Moi 03-26975046, Faillul Adam - 0172471772, Marrulhuda Mawardi - 0176653201, Murni Omar - 0172181502.

The MyDance AGM is happening next Wednesday evening. If you are a member, and you have not received your invitation by email, or if you are not a member and would like to join, please contact the MyDance Secretary at bhijjas@gmail.com or 017 310 3769. 

The AGM happens every two years. As well as electing the MyDance Committee for the following two years, the AGM is an important opportunity to get together with other members to discuss important issues relevant to the organisation. This year additional agenda items include:

If you are interested in getting involved in MyDance Alliance, now is the time!

The 'grand old man' of Japanese butoh dance theatre, master Kazuo Ohno, died earlier this month at the age of 103. Ohno was greatly involved in the early development of the butoh dance style in Japan after World War II. He was acclaimed for his solo performances in which he depicted tottering old women, fraught with evocations of darkness and decay. Ohno spent some years teaching dance in his youth, but in 1938 he was drafted into the Japanese Army, with whom he served nine years, one of them as a prisoner of war in New Guinea. His later works reflect this experience, as well as the wartime atomic bombings of Japan. His last performance on stage was in 2007. In his final years he used the remaining working parts of his body, ravaged by illness and age, to continue to dance. The Kazuo Ohno Dance Studio in Yokohama, now directed by Ohno's son Yoshito, continues to conduct workshops, produce performers and disseminate Ohno's butoh philosophy. 

See http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/02/arts/dance/02ohno.html for Ohno's obituary in the New York Times.

After two years, most people will instantly recognise SHORT+SWEET because of its quirky 10-minute concept. First we had 10-minute plays…then 10-minute dance. Now in its third year, SHORT+SWEET Malaysia will see the addition of SHORT+SWEET Musical to its ever-growing family!

 

Have you been hoarding your scripts at home? Got a dance idea you would like to try out? Or a musical piece you’re just dying for people to hear? Sign up now and grab the chance to be part of an international festival and competition – you’ll stand a chance to win fantastic prizes & goodies!

 

For first timers, a quick rundown on SHORT+SWEET…

·        A 10-minute festival AND competition

·        Open to Malaysians AND non-Malaysians (international entries welcomed)

·        Open to any genre e.g. your dance piece can be hip hop, zapin, ballet etc

·        Open to any languages, not just English!

·        Entry for all on voluntary basis

·        You can take part in more than one festival

 

Whether you are newbie or a veteran, the SHORT+SWEET experience is truly unique… it’s fun, you meet a whole host of people and you get drawn into this crazy (but good crazy) SHORT+SWEET madness. Must try!

 

MARK these festival dates down!

S+S Musical         22 Sept - 3 Oct 2010

S+S Dance           6 Oct - 17 Oct 2010

S+S Theatre         20 Oct - 31 Oct 2010

 

SIGN UP NOW! We’re looking for…

Contact michelle@klpac.org to obtain S+S Malaysia 2010 Registration Form. REGISTER & SUBMIT send your registration forms, scripts and scores to michelle@klpac.org or drop it off at klpac in a sealed envelope (Please address it to "Michelle Yip, Senior Stage Manager, S+S Malaysia 2010)

 

SUBMISSION DEADLINE 30 JUNE 2010

 

In the last four years 'no ballet' has established itself as a renowned player on the international

dance scene – the proof: almost 1000 applications from more than 50 nations. The selected 100-plus dancers and choreographers enchanted the audience, the jury and the media with their passion, hard work and enthusiasm. The result was three exciting days in the Theater im Pfalzbau in Ludwigshafen, Germany  – modern dance of the highest level!

The conceptual motto no ballet of the competition as well as the artistic credo “reduce to the max”

should encourage – if not to say force – the choreographers to concentrate on the essentials of a (post)modern dance-production: Choreographers should develop their own contemporary and genuine dance language, their own style, beyond established dance techniques and movements, and without the help of splendid stage-design, costumes and light-effects. Pure Dance.

The jury will select circa 20 choreographers from all the international applications. They will choose groups who can surprise and please the audience with daring, intelligent and humorous productions. The choreographies, divided in two groups, have to be presented on Thursday the 7th and Friday the 8th of October 2010 in front of the jury and audience in the Theater im Pfalzbau Ludwigshafen in Germany. The finale, consisting of the best 4 productions from each day, and the announcement of the winning choreographers, will be on Saturday the 9th of October 2010 at 7.30 pm. Prizes to a total value of Euro 16,000 will be awarded.

For more information about 'no ballet' and application forms, see http://www.no-ballet.com/

CLOSING DATE FOR APPLICATIONS IS 18 JULY 2010

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For more information, visit us at www.mydancealliance.org