Organised by the Celestar Studio of Performing Arts (CSOPA), this seminar will explore the origins of American Jazz Dance and the evolution of current jazz styles.

Find out what jazz dance is, where it originated, why America and what it encompasses.

Date: 26 October 2002
Time: 5.30-7.30pm
Venue: CSOPA Headquarters (24B Jalan Memanda 4, Ampang Point, Ampang)
Admission: Free (members of CSOPA and MyDance) / RM10 (non members)

Contact: 013-371 0862

This seminar will be followed by a 2 week American Jazz Dance Workshop to be held in December 2002. More information will be made available soon.

As part of the INTERNATIONAL DANCE FESTIVAL TARI 2002 organized by the Akademi Seni Kebangsaan and Ministry of Culture, Arts and Tourism, there will be a series of workshops specially conducted by local and international artists.

Come and explore Contemporary, Classical Chinese, Hip-hop and many more!

Dates: 4-12 October 2002

Venue: Dance Studios @ Akademi Seni Kebangsaan
32nd floor, Empire Tower, Jalan Tun Razak
(Next to City Square Shopping Center)

Time: 10:00am-12:00nn

Fees: FREE!!!

Tentative Workshop Schedule (subject to change)

4 Oct (Fri): India
5 Oct (Sat): China
6 Oct (Sun): Choo Tee Kuang (Contemporary)
7 Oct (Mon): Judimar Monfils (Contemporary)
8 Oct (Tue): Cheong Lin Poo (Classical Chinese)
9 Oct (Wed): Zhou Gui Xin (Classical Chinese)
10 Oct (Thu): Sheela Raghavan (Classical Indian)
11 Oct (Fri): Ann Tan (Hip Hop)
12 Oct (Sat): Lee Swee Keong (Buto)

For further information, contact Gan Chih Pei on 012-390 3242

The Akademi Seni Kebangsaan and Ministry of Culture, Arts and Tourism are pleased to announce the 5th International Dance Festival, TARI 2002 – celebrating Asian Dance!

This year the festival will take on a new look as it tours to Penang, Ipoh and Kuantan before making a final performance in Kuala Lumpur. In the meantime, various local dance companies will perform in Kuala Lumpur. In addition, local and international teachers will conduct workshops.

Countries that will participate include (subject to change):
India: Mamata Shankar Ballet Troupe
China: China Eldous Dance and Song Troupe (Inner Mongolia Province)
Vietnam: Ho Chi Minh City
Singapore: LaSalle College of the Arts

Festival Dates: 4-12 October 2002
Performance Venue (Kuala Lumpur): Dewan TAR, MTC, Jalan Ampang
Time: 8.30 pm
Tickets: RM 20.00

For information on the workshops see TARI 2002 Workshops

PERFORMANCE PROGRAMME

6/10/2002 (Sun):
Opening of TARI 2002 in Penang with a performance by the companies from India, China and Vietnam as well as Malaysia’s Akademi Seni Kebangsaan (ASK)

7/10/2002 (Mon):
Performance by the international companies and ASK in Ipoh

8/10/2002 (Tue):
Opening of TARI 2002 in Kuala Lumpur with a performance featuring:
· Red Hot Dancers
· P’nang Dance Station
· CrossRoads Dance Ensemble
· Ellie-Zhou Ballet Studio
· Hainan Association

9/10/2002 (Wed):
Performance 2 in Kuala Lumpur featuring:
· Xu Ri Dancers
· Sasha Bashir
· Gema Nusantara
· Angkatan Seni Baru NS
· Jasni Abdul Hamid
· DBKL

10/10/2002 (Thu):
Performance by the international companies and ASK in Kuantan

Performance 3 in Kuala Lumpur featuring:
· Dancezap Production
· Mun Lee
· Sheela Raghavan
· Dancesteps Studio
· Weijun

11/10/2002 (Fri):
Performance 4 in Kuala Lumpur featuring:
· Gan Chih Pei
· P’nang Dance Station
· Nyo-Ba & Dancers
· Kuala Lumpur Dance Theatre
· La Salle College of the Arts

12/10/2002 (Sat):
Kuala Lumpur performance by the international companies, Sel & KL Kwang Tung Association and ASK

For further information:
. call: Norhafilah at 03-2164 9180 ext 238/242
. email: gonzales@dancemalaysia.com
. fax: 03-2164 9186

The renowned ballerina, Tan Yuan Yuan, from the San Francisco Ballet Company will conduct two workshops in which she will teach solo classical variations from ballets such as Giselle, Sleeping Beauty and Swan Lake.

Workshop Programme
Day 1 (22/10/2002) Warm-up class and variations from Giselle Act 1
Day 2 (23/10/2002) Warm-up class and either Aurora’s variations from Act 1, the Black Swan variation or the La Esmeralda variation

Dates: 22-23 October 2002 (Tue-Wed)
Time: 7.00pm-9.00pm (both days)
Venue: Fonteyn Theatre (Wisma FAB, 1-3 Jalan 14/22, 46100 Petaling Jaya)

Fees:
Participants:
RM120 for Day 1 & 2
RM80 for Day 1 or 2

Places are limited to 20 participants who must be at Advanced level and members of The Dance Society of Malaysia (TDS)

Observers:
TDS Members: RM120 (Day 1 & 2); RM80 (Day 1 or 2)
Non TDS Members: RM140 (Day 1 & 2); RM100 (Day 1 or 2)

To register contact one of the following:
Sunny Chan/Helen: 03-4257 0290
Lee Yupin: 03-7728 0254
Cheong Thing Kin: 03-4108 8201
Cynthia Teh: 012-278 0110

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Tan Yuan Yuan trained first at the prestigious Shanghai Dance School and later at the John Cranko School in Germany.

She joined the San Francisco Ballet Company in 1994 as a soloist, becoming a principal dancer in 1997.

She has won numerous medals at various International Ballet Competitions.

“Management of Contemporary Dance Around Southeast Asia”

Organised by Tasema Productions with support from Arts Network Asia, this two-day roundtable dialogue involves the coming together of select individuals from various Southeast Asian capitals to discuss ways in which the management of contemporary dance in Southeast Asia can be improved upon.

PARTICIPANTS
· Dennis Marasigan (Manila) – Director of Marketing, Cultural Center of the Philippines
· Ha The Dung (Hanoi) – Chief of the Dancers Group at the Vietnam National Opera & Ballet (Classical & Contemporary)
· Kim Pinun (Phnom Penh) – Professor in Modern Theater, Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Choreographic Arts, Royal University of Fine Arts
· Sal Murgiyanto (Jakarta) – Dean Of Performing Arts, Jakarta Institute for the Arts and Director of the Indonesian Dance Festival
· Sirithorn Srichalakom (Bangkok) – Choreographer at Patravadi Theatre and Lecturer at Chulalongkorn University
· Tang Fu Kuen (Singapore) – Independent Theatre Movement Artist, Dramaturg and Critic
· Rogayah Shahariman (Kuala Lumpur) – Director of Tasema Productions

MODERATORS
· Marion D’Cruz – Founder/Director of the Five Arts Center
· Mohd Anis Md Nor – Professor in Ethnochoreology and Ethnomusicology at University Malaya

PROGRAMME
5/10 (Sat) – Introduction and Paper/Report Presentations
6/10 (Sun) – Roundtable Sessions
· Session 1 – “Strategies”
· Session 2 – “Policy and Procedure”
· Session 3 – “What else can be done?”

Observers are welcome and may have input into the proceedings. However places will be limited to enable open and productive interaction among the participants.

Dates: 5 – 6 October 2002 (Saturday – Sunday)
Time: 9.30am – 5.30pm (registration from 9.00am on Saturday)
Venue: Hotel Fairlane Kuala Lumpur (Jalan Walter Grenier, 55100 Kuala Lumpur)
Registration fee: RM120 (covers food and printed materials)
Deadline: 1 October 2002

To register contact:
Tasema Productions
tel/fax: (603) 4251 8751
email: tasprod@tm.net.my

Organised by MyDance Alliance and conducted by Joyce Lim, this ‘movement investigation’ workshop has 4 main components:

· Warm up using Yang style Tai Chi Chuan concentrating on basic concepts such as slowness, precision, relaxation, breathing, weight distribution and focus
· Image Based Work as a means of improvisation and movement investigation. The rational or conscious mind will be ‘shut down’ allowing the body and imagination free expression in movement and imagery
· The movements generated will be crafted into solo phrases
· Negative Space (time permitting) is a means of training the eyes and body to look for unfilled/unoccupied spaces and to explore partnering

Dates: 2-3 October 2002 (Wed-Thu)
Time: 7.30pm-9.30pm
Venue: Akademi Seni Kebangsaan (32nd floor Empire Tower, Jalan Tun Razak)
Fee for both days: RM50 (public), RM40 (MyDance Members)

Places limited to 20 participants
(no experience required, only an open mind and a sense of adventure!)

For reservations contact:
Gan Chih Pei: 012-390 3242
Rogayah: 016-285 9027

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Joyce Lim Shuan Li is a Malaysian who has lived and worked in the US for the last 12 years. Since 1998 her work has focused on contemporary issues and aesthetics of SEAsia.

Her choreographies and videos have been presented internationally at venues ranging from the Cultural Center of the Philippines, Gedung Kesenian Jakarta, and the Judson Church and Danspace Project at St Marks Church, New York.

As part of The Artists’ Space Season 2002, Ramli Ibrahim & the Sutra Dancers will perform Pallavi.

Pallavi is both a dance genre within Odissi, an Indian Classical Dance style from Orissa, and a way of rendering a particular music refrain so that every shade and nuance possible within the chosen dance/music phrase is brought out.

Pallavis are characterised by sculpturesque poses and intricate patterns of feet movement.

Dates: 18-20 October (Fri-Sun)
Time: 9.00pm
Venue: The Artists’ Space, Concorde Hotel Shah Alam (Jalan Tengku Ampuan Zabedah C9/4C)
Tickets: RM35 (inclusive of 1 drink)

Call: 03-5512 2200 ext 2821/2822

Over the month of October, the Five Arts Center will hold a series of workshops – Performance Workshops for Adults and Creative Workshops for Young People.

1) Performance Workshops for Adults

This workshop will introduce new and aspiring performers to training techniques in acting, movement and voice, and will include exciting activities such as theatre games and improvisation, stage combat and freeing the participants’ voices!

The workshops will be led by pioneering dancer/choreographer and Five Arts Centre founder member, Marion D’Cruz; Mark Teh and Kubhaer T. Jethwani from exciting youth theatre group Akshen; and Lim Chung Wei, Universiti Sains Malaysia graduate in Theatre and Drama who has worked extensively with groundbreaking director Janet Pillai in Penang.

Dates: every Saturday (5th, 12th, 19th and 26th) of October 2002
Time: 3.00-6.00 pm
Venue: Five Arts Centre, 27, Lorong Datuk Sulaiman 7, TTDI, KL
Fee: RM300 for the entire programme
Places: first 25 people who register before Friday, 27 Sept 2002

Call Five Arts Centre at 03-7725-4858 or e-mail fivearts@tm.net.my

2) Creative Workshops for Young People

This workshop for young people aged 12-17 years will introduce participants to creative expression through improvisation, role-play, theatre games and problem-solving techniques.

The programme will be conducted by actress Jerrica Lai, who has worked extensively with young people in many projects, including Five Arts Centre’s Teater Muda programme, as well as teaching children’s theatre at The Actors Studio, Girl’s Shelter in Taman OUG and the Kiwanis Foundation.

Dates: every Sunday (6th, 13th, 20th and 27th) of October 2002
Time: 3.00-5.00 pm
Venue: Five Arts Centre, 27, Lorong Datuk Sulaiman 7, TTDI, KL
Fee: RM250 for the entire programme
Places: first 25 young people who register before Friday, 27 Sept 2002

Contact Five Arts Centre at 03-7725-4858 or e-mail fivearts@tm.net.my

As part of The Artists’ Space Season 2002, celebrated classical dancer Zaridah Abdul Malik will perform Dance of the Weave with her dancers while accompanied by cellist, Pak Yosbar.

Her muse (as indicated by the title) is the songket fabric woven by Habibah Haji Zikri, which she feels, reveals and glorifies the gracious female psyche.

‘Woman Alone’ is based on Sita of the Ramayana who is abducted by the demon Ravana. She pines for her beloved but when help does not come, she uses her own resources to secure her freedom.

‘Processions, Weavers, Initiation and Pure Dance’ fuses classical styles with contemporary dance to capture the eternal joy and serenity inspired the songket pieces.

Dates: 27-28 September (Fri-Sat) and 4-5 October (Fri-Sat)
Time: 9.00pm
Venue: The Artists’ Space, Concorde Hotel Shah Alam (Jalan Tengku Ampuan Zabedah C9/4C)
Tickets: RM35 (inclusive of 1 drink)

Call: 03-5512 2200 ext 2821/2822

Sutra Dance Theatre presents a Bharata Natyam performance, Brahmacakra (The Magic Circle), featuring Shangita, Nada, Guna and Apsara.

In this performance the dancers showcase their own evolution and renewed interpretation of traditional repertoires while at the same time upholding the distinctive Kalakshetra stamp.

They will be accompanied by live music, led by distinguished vocalist Padma Subramaniam with Jaya Shekar on nattuvangam.

Dates: 28-29 September 2002 (Sat-Sun)
Time: 8.30pm
Venue: Sutra House, 12 Persiaran Titiwangsa 3, Kuala Lumpur
Entry: RM30

Call: 4021 1093 or 4022 9669

For further information visit www.sutradancetheatre.com