Kre Art Dance Theater, a Kajang-based teaching and performing dance organisation directed by Loo Poh Choo, is holding a dance concert involving 100 of its students ranging in age from 3 to 25 years old.

The concert is an opportunity for the students to learn and perform different styles of dance, appreciate variety in music and work together as a team.

Date: 14 September 2002
Time: 8.00pm (1 hour duration)
Venue: New Era College Auditorium, Kajang
Admission: by donation (RM10 for children below 12 years old; RM15 for adults)

For further information, contact Loo Poh Choo at 03-8737 4873

An evening of plate dances from Pahang, Negeri Sembilan and other states has been organised by Junainah M. Lojong and other tutors of the Dance Program at the Akademi Seni Kebangsaan.

Originally from Indonesia, these dances have now become a part of Malaysian traditional dance, practiced by people of Minang descent and numerous others resulting in many versions.

Date: 7 September 2002
Venue: Mini Auditorium MTC, Jalan Ampang
Time: 8.30 pm
Admission: FREE!

For further information call 03-2164 9180

Dama Orchestra’s musical production of In the Imperial Garden will feature the inimitable Lee Swee Keong of Nyoba & Dancers in the role of Evil.

Combining music and songs with drama, dance and theatrics, the production dramatises the triumph of Good over Evil in the Kingdom Earth.

Dates: 5-8 & 12-15 September 2002
Time: 8.30 pm
Venue: The Actors Studio, Bangsar
Tickets: range from RM30 to RM125

For details: call 03-2094 0400, 03-2694 5400 or 03-2693 1008

Shirena Hamzah is organising a seven-day dance workshop to be held 7-13 September 2002 at Desa Sri Hartamas.

Jay T Jenkins and Vicki Fischer, instructors from STEPS on Broadway, New York, will conduct the workshop. Both have worked with various dance companies across the United States, and also on Music Videos for artists such as Prince, Salt n Pepa and Chaka Khan.

At the end of the workshop, there will be a performance at the Securities Commission Auditorium. This will be a charity event and the proceeds will go to the Malaysian AIDS Foundation.

Aside from recruiting students for the workshop, we are also inviting schools to send in one or two numbers to be staged on the charity night.

For further information contact Shirena at 012-2316369.

Qing by the Selangor & Kuala Lumpur Kwang Tung Association Dance Troupe is a performance based on an abstraction of the elements of nature such as wind, land, water and mountain. A range of cultural and artistic works such as poetry, music and Chinese landscape paintings have been incorporated into the performance.

The programme is made up of several pieces, each choreographed by one of the senior dancers/teachers at the Kwang Tung Association – Land Search (Michelle Yong), Wind Movements (Kenny Low), Water Ripples (Kenzo de Tuan), Autumn Leaves (Cheong Lin Poo – Artistic Director) and Earth Tracks (Amy Len).

Performance Details
Dates: 7-8 September 2002 @ 8.30pm
Venue: Auditorium DBKL
Tickets: by donation @ RM30 (adults) and RM15 (students)

Outlets:
Kwang Tung Association (03-2031 1203)
Dancezap Production (03-2070 6898)
Dynasty House (012-3049 448)
Mentor Bookstore (03-2026 6384)

Enquiries: Siew Mee (012-670 8454), Tsung Hui (012-664 6078)

There are two parts to Global Dance 2002.

The first part, 23 – 29 August, is the World Dance Alliance Festival, which will comprise performances, workshops and conferences. Held in Dusseldorf, the festival will offer audiences a truly global perspective, not only through invited artists and dance experts from diverse cultural regions, but by also incorporating different aesthetic value systems. The festival aims to present the ever-changing perspective of contemporary dance.

The second part of Global Dance 2002, 28 – 31 August, will be the International Dance Fair (Internationale Tanzmesse NRW). 1000 sqm of exhibition space will be used by exhibitors such as companies, dancers, choreographers, organisations, schools and institutions, scholars, festival directors, cultural commissioners, arts administrators and so forth from places as diverse as Austria, Brazil, Canada, Croatia, France, Israel, Korea, Luxembourg, Mexico, Russia, USA and many, many more.

(Of note – Malaysia’s own Kuala Lumpur Dance Theatre, directed by Mrs. Lee Lee Lan, will perform in the festival)

For more information, visit the festival’s website at www.global-dance.org.

Ramli Ibrahim will feature in Lokanatha: Lords of the World as part of Sutra Dance Theatre’s ‘Under the Stars Series’.

This bharatanatyam performance showcases part of the traditional repertoire on Shiva and Vishnu, and will be accompanied by live carnatic music led by Jeya Sekhar.

Performance Details
9-11 August @ 8.30pm
Sutra House @ 12 Persiaran Titiwangsa 3, Kuala Lumpur
Invitations @ RM30 available at the door

For further information call 03-4022 9669

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Note:
Those who saw Weijun’s Sinful Legs Sacred Body at Sutra just recently might like to revisit his site at www.geocities.com/sinfullegs where he has revamped the overall look, used different pictures and included short video clips taken at the performance.

The Dance Society of Malaysia is holding a charity dinner and dance to raise funds. This is to enable it to continue its work in supporting and promoting local ballet talent, and providing a platform for performances by talented dancers. To date the society has organised yearly ballet competitions, several Festivals of Dance and a full-length ballet entitled The Slave Princess.

Waltzes of the World is a dinner and dance event to be held in the Shangri-la Hotel Ballroom and will feature Viennese Waltzes to music by Johann Strauss, waltzes from ballet classics by students from various ballet schools, operatic music on the piano and a jewellery show cum auction by Juita Gems.

Date: Saturday, 24 August 2002
Venue: Shangri-la Hotel Ballroom, Kuala Lumpur
Time: 8.00pm to 1.00am

Tables (by donation): RM1500 and RM2000 per table
Each table seats 10 people and includes Western set dinner

Individual invitations: RM150 each

To reserve, please fax details to Mr. Sunny Chan (03-4257 0294) or Ms. Lee Yupin (03-2087 2698).

Starting 2 September to 30 November 2002, the Celestar Studio of Performing Arts is offering the following new courses:

Full-time
Teachers course (Introductory syllabus)
Performers course (Introductory and Higher level)

Part-time
Performers course (Introductory syllabus) – 8 years and above
Performers course (Higher level) – 12 years and above
Social dance – 8 years and above
Creative dance – Ages 3-7 years
Ballet – 8 years and above (open classes)
Pas de deux – 12 years and above
Stretching – 3 years and above
Teachers course – (Higher level)

For more information call 013-3710862

Mavin Khoo will give a Bharata Natyam performance in aid of the PUSAKA centre for the study and documentation of traditional dance, drama and music in Malaysia.

Performance Details
Dates: 3 & 4 August 2002
Time: 8.30 pm
Venue: Auditorium Perdanasiswa, University Malaya

Tickets: RM50/RM30/RM20

Outlets:
Lotus Restaurant (Jln Gasing – 7783 4700, Bangsar – 2282 9722)
Galeri Petronas (Suria KLCC – 581 7080)
The Actors Studio (Dataran Merdeka – 2694 5400; Bangsar – 2094 0400)