MyDance Alliance is excited to announce a series of new dance events and activities at the new Petaling Jaya Performing Arts Centre at 1Utama!
Check back here for updated details one events, closer to the date.
Dancing in the Mall
3-4:30pm, 5-6 February 2022
Venue: Meet at PJPAC lobby, and be escorted to different performance sites around 1Utama mall
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Aim |
Providing space and time for established and emerging choreographers to extend their creative ideas to non-conventional performance areas using site-specific dance methods. Providing an entertaining and thought-provoking experience for the public, who experience that dance can happen anywhere, and can transform their expectations of the places that they visit. |
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Description |
A free site-specific dance performance using spaces in the mall to give the public a new experience of watching dance. The audience would start at a specific gathering point and would be guided to travel from one location to another to watch this series of short dance works. |
Protégées: New Dances by Women Choreographers
8pm, Saturday 13 March 2022
Venue: Nero Event Space
Tickets: RM20 by donation
New dances by emerging Malaysian women choreographers, in celebration of International Women’s Day.
MyDance Alliance supports the creativity, determination and passion of women choreographers. We have invited women leaders from the local dance community to nominate emerging women choreographers to participate in this project.
Beyond Moving with Artisans
16-28 May 2022
Venue: Level 1, 1 Utama E, and Nero Event Space, PJ Performing Arts Centre
“Beyond Moving with Artisans: From Imagination To Creation” will be holding a 2-week open-studio residency in 1 Utama E, in association with PJ Performing Arts Centre.
This arts residency explores traditional occupations which are slowly going extinct, as jobs and skills are being replaced by the use of machines, and the younger generation is unwilling to perpetuate these handcrafted traditions. It continues the project called Moving with Artisans, developed by MyDance committee member Lau Beh Chin, of JinnD Productions.
The residency will include workshops, a one-to-one interaction session, public dialogue and work-in-progress sharing, on 28 May 2022 at Nero Event Space, PJ Performing Arts Centre, 1 Utama E. More info…
Malaysia Dance Day 2022
16 September 2022
Venue: Nero
10am-1pm — Workshops
3-4pm — Performance
| Aim | To promote local traditional dance, especially of the dance heritage of East Malaysia, to increase local awareness of Borneo culture as well as cross-cultural understanding, appreciation and unity among Malaysians. To increase public awareness of the many institutions in Malaysia that uphold these living traditions. |
| Description | A one-day traditional dance program celebrating Malaysia Day on 16 September 2021 by offering free Borneo dance classes for the public during the day, and a Malaysia’s traditional dance performance performed by students from local dance institutions, for free to the general public. |
| Target | Workshops: 4 – 6 dance instructors, 20 workshop participants per workshop Performance: 8 – 10 items of choreography, 10 – 30 dancers, approx. 150 audience members |
Dance on Camera
November 2022
Date TBA — Workshop
Date TBA — Screening & Artist Sharing, 8-10pm
| Aim | To develop choreographic skills among Malaysian artists in creating dance film in Malaysia. |
| Description | Dance on Camera is a choreographic platform for dance film making. In this edition, it is a one-day (or separate into 2-3 days) intensive workshop with a work-in-progress screening at the end. Experts in dance film making would be invited to be the guest teachers and mentors for the participants. Participants will practice in the theatre and the mall during the workshop. |
| Target | 10-20 choreographers and 10-20 dancers involved in the workshop; approx. 100 audience members for the screening. |
Dance Camp for Refugees
20 May
MyDance Alliance committee member Lau Beh Chin has been working with young people of the Chin refugee community in Kuala Lumpur, organising free workshops in dance and arts since 2018. She is planning to take 20-30 young people from the Chin Student Organisation of Cheras to visit PJPAC for a special treat: a day of dance workshops and performance.
We are still raising funds for this event, to support bus rental and meals. If you would like to support this project, please donate here.