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Date: 26 to 27 September, 2008
Venue: University Cultural Centre, National University of Singapore
Ticket Prices: $41, $51, $61 from SISTIC
Jointly organised by NUS centre for the Arts, FireFives showcases contemporary pieces by Singapore Dance Theatre that are reminiscent of the slow-burn appeal and vivacity of fireflies. Short on duration but rich in creative buzz, these easy to enjoy dance pieces will delight and enthrall the patient audience who does not come in with preconceived notions of contemporary dance.
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Breath Of Love by Jeffrey Tan
Music: Juan del Enzina
Synopsis:
Unfettered by the artificial and the clichéd, dancers interact on stage as their bodies intertwine in expressions that are passionate yet strangely sublime. Set to medieval Spanish music that informs the mood of the piece, but does not necessarily contextualise it, Jeffrey Tan's creation, Breath of Love, is a call to love, and to be loved, in the most simple and innocent of ways.
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Solitaire by Jeffrey Tan
Music: Morning Passages by Philip Glass
Synopsis:
A spotlight shines on a solo performer on stage. All eyes are trained on her as she begins to animate her limbs to express a sublime emotion. Solitaire explores the myriad of emotions and expressions that ricochet through the mind and body of a dancer as she embraces the emptiness of her surrounding.
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La Rose Malade by Paul DeMasson
Music: Rachmaninof's Fantaisie-Tableaux, Suite No. 1, Opus 5 |
“Paul DeMasson’s La Rose Malade was
a gentle ode to the rose.
The dancers rolled through their movements
with languid grace, arching their backs
and extending their limbs when lifted into the air.
Coalescing in a group and then falling apart
into separate pas de deux, their elegant poses
traced the blooming and withering of the flower.”
June Cheong, Straits Times Life |
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Excerpt from Why Not? by Paul Ocampo 4.5mins
Music: Who Wants To Live Forever by Queen
Synopsis:
A crowd-pleasing piece that was first stage in Ballet Under The Stars in 1996, this energetic excerpt is one that was dedicated to the late co-Founder of SDT, Anthony Then, by its choreographer Paul Ocampo.
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Fanfare by Graham Lustig 6mins
Music by Graham Fitkin
Created as a tribute to Goh Choo San for SDT's The Legacy of Goh Choo San. World Premiere on 7 September 2007
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“Graham Lustig's Fanfare was a special tribute to Goh Choo San…
It was a lovely piece, full of energy and grace, the intricate but symmetrical patterns created on stage echoing Goh's flair for visually interesting formations…”
Cheah Ui-Hoon, Business Times
“Fanfare, a vibrant tribute to Goh Choo San created by Graham Lustig to a syncopated piano score by Graham Fitkin, and delivered with style by six of SDT's dancers.”
Emma Manning, Dance Europe |
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Piano Concerto No. 2, Opus 102 by Edmund Stripe
Music: Shostakovich's Piano Concerto No. 2
Synopsis:
“Choreographer Edmund Stripe’s
Piano Concerto No. 2, Opus 102
was a sprightly affair of
flashing feet and fast turns.
While the female dancers dazzled
with their fleet-footedness,
bouncing spiritedly on the balls of their feet,
their male counterparts
entertained with a series of quick turns.”
June Cheong, Straits Times Life
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Piano Concerto in F Major (music composed by Dimitri Shoskatovitch) by Edmund Stripe, is a 20-minute piece that features 7 female and 9 male dancers on stage in a fast-paced and exciting work. Audiences will probably find the music of the first movement of this choreography familiar as it was featured in the Disney movie, Fantasia 2000.
Says the choreographer, Edmund Stripe, the ballet master of Alberta Ballet in Canada : “Piano Concerto No. 2, Opus 102 is the latest in an occasional series of dance pieces I have created to particular genres of musical form (sonata, concerto etc.) from different composers throughout the ages. The title of these works are always a simple reference to the music used, uncomplicated and minimal, to let the viewers mind interpret the work as she or he sees it.
This series started in 1993 with the creation of Symphony No. 1, Opus 25 for Singapore Dance Theatre's Project 1 and has since included Sinfonietta, Opus 40 and Concerto 12, Opus 25.
Shostakovich's Piano Concerto No. 2 is one of those rare works that encompasses many emotions from playfulness, through melancholia to sweeping grandeur, seemingly simple in construction but in fact extremely complex.
The great Singaporean choreographer, Goh Choo San would have called this a ‘picture ballet'. Indeed it is, and it is to him that I dedicate this piece – to his memory and his legacy.” |
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