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Singapore Arts Festival 2008 |
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23 May – 22 June 2008 |
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The Singapore Arts Festival unveiled the
details for its 22nd edition programme today. |
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Organised by the National Arts
Council, the Festival runs over four weeks, and features more
than 1,800 artists from 27 countries performing in 25 main
productions and over 400 free performances, exhibitions and
special events under its Outreach programme. |
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The line-up includes 7 new commissions (with
2 world premieres), 8 Asian premieres and 3 international
co-commissions. Known for its innovative programming and brokering role
in promoting international collaborations, this year’s Festival takes
artists and audiences on a journey of creative adventures and unique
discoveries. |
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“We are excited to present new finds and
artists from emerging regions of Asia and Europe who are making their
first major international festival debut. We are also proud of our new
commissions by both experienced and emergent artists from Singapore.
Three among them are already set to travel to international
destinations. We remain firm in our faith in supporting, discovering and
promoting young talent, and championing new works as an important mark
of a worthy festival. I invite audiences to come to the Festival to be
surprised, engaged, and to expect the unexpected,” said Goh Ching Lee,
Director for the Singapore Arts Festival. |
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Singapore Commissions and Artists in
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Singapore’s homegrown artists will take
centrestage in this year’s Festival. For the first time, three
Singapore works commissioned by the Festival have received the
support of three international festivals. |
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The King Lear Project: A Trilogy by Ho
Tzu Nyen and Fran Borgia and Temple by Cake Theatrical Productions
will be shown respectively at Brussels’s Kunstenfestivaldesarts in
May and Naples’s Napoli Teatro Festival Italia in June this year. |
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awaking, a production conceived and
directed by Ong Keng Sen with composer Qu Xiao Song, musicians from
the Singapore Chinese Orchestra, Musicians of the Globe and The
Northern Kunqu Opera Theatre, will also travel to the Edinburgh
International Festival in the near future. Another Festival
co-commission Drift by Drama Box (Singapore) and Shanghai Dramatic
Arts Centre (China) will come to the Festival following its
successful premiere at the Singapore Season in China in 2007. |
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A fresh cohort of artists will be making
their debuts in the Festival’s development and showcase platforms
for Singapore’s next generation of artists. |
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Forward Moves, will present its third
edition with three female dance creators Ebelle Chong, Joavien Ng
and Neo Hong Chin. Full Frontal, the platform for theatre talent,
will feature ZiZi Azah in her directorial debut of a classic text
Rhinoceros at the Festival. Three dramaturges, namely Tang Fu Kuen,
Robin Loon, and Kok Heng Leun, have been appointed to support the
creative process under these two platforms. |
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Not forgetting rising young classical
music soloists, the Singapore Festival Orchestra’s Festival Fantasia
will feature Singapore violinist Tang Tee Khoon, and Chinese pianist
Shen Wenyu, who made history as the youngest prize winner in the
Queen Elizabeth Competition in 2003. |
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The repertoire includes Cherish, a
Festival commission by Singapore composer Tan Chan Boon, who will be
celebrating 30 years of his musical career as a composer. |
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Homegrown composer Ho Chee Kong will be
contributing his new work Shades of Oil Lamps to the list of 20th
century masterpieces performed by the London Sinfonietta (United
Kingdom). |
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Meanwhile, Singapore’s flagship dance
company Singapore Dance Theatre marks its 20th anniversary this year
with Continuum, a triple bill featuring fresh contemporary works of
Euro-American choreographers’ creations. |
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More..... |
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Source:
www.nac.gov.sg News Release 10
Apr 2008 |
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