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16 Season
RAW Moves commemorates the beginning of the next 50 years in dance and movement in Singapore with SG 51, which features Singaporean artists near and far, guided by the company's new vision in defining the characteristics of contemporary art practice that shape the future of our creative landscape.
We hope to relook, rethink and reconnect with some of these local artists in season 2016.
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pertory Platform (R.e.P)
Repertory Platform explores works by established local and international choreographers, with the intent to inject current movement aesthetics to the local arts community, hence raising the bar for artistry.
Act II - The Messy Middle (2016)
by Foo Yun Ying (Singapore)
Synopsis
What does one go through in times of vulnerability, fear, struggle or insecurity?
Inspired by the work of Brené Brown, Act II - The Messy Middle is a collection of situations/scenarios arising out of the independent stories of the performers, recounted through physicalizations of their thoughts, emotions and actions. Here, we are looking at the reckoning and/or rumbling stage of each story, simply put, the “middle” section.
Recognizing and acknowledging their stories in writing during the process, the performers were asked to face up and reckon with their emotions, thoughts and actions that took place in reality and had taken place in their imaginations (by this, I mean the times when we conjure up scenarios of what we think might happen, and how we think we or others might react). Through a series of question and answer, discussions, and trials, we close in on the individual and his/her vulnerabilities, the individual’s place within a group context, and how we can support one another despite various struggles.
Watch it here https://vimeo.com/act2messymiddle
Date/ Time 17 – 19 March 2016, 8pm
Venue Goodman Arts Centre, Black Box
BOUND (2016)
by Jo-anne Lee (New York/ Singapore)
Synopsis
What happens when boundaries are crossed?
Does it lead to greater freedom or chaos?
BOUND is a movement exploration on the theme of boundaries and how they can restrict, confine and yet also define the body and space. Using elastic ropes in a series of challenging game-like scenarios, the dancers test their physical limits to see what happens when thresholds, both internal and external, are stretched.
Do boundaries set perimeters or parameters?
Watch it here https://vimeo.com/rawmoves/bound
Date/ Time 17 – 19 March 2016, 8pm
Venue Goodman Arts Centre, Black Box
search & Development
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Research & Development promotes creative investigation through a curated practice, with an emphasis on unveiling creative processes and methodologies through archive and performance.
Sounding Body (2016)
Concept by Dr Joyce Beetuan Koh (Singapore)
Movement Collaborator Ricky Sim (Singapore)
Synopsis
The guqin has a wide range of sonorities. Each finger technique produces a unique sonic character.
Imagine the dancer’s body becoming those expressive fingers that pluck and strum the strings: bright sounds, prolonged, scratchy... What new aural and visual synergies might happen?
Through an interactive system, the dancers learn to control the sounds. They have to find ways to express the sound character, eliciting a new vocabulary of movements.
Dancers no longer move to the music, but move the music through their movements.
Watch it here https://vimeo.com/rawmoves/soundingbody
Date/ Time 26 - 28 May 2016, 8pm
Venue Goodman Arts Centre, Black Box
RawGr
und
RawGround provides an exclusive opportunity for company artists to explore and expand their creativity within an informal studio showcase setting. It aims to support and encourage the company artists to develop their own individual artistic voices.
In Loving Memory of Me
Concept by Chiew Peishan (Singapore)
Synopsis
In Loving Memory of Me is a pseudo-autobiographical performance that explores one’s mortality.
I am dying.
Inspired by Chong Tze Chien’s Poop!, the work inquires the potential for self-healing through the act of pre-planning one’s own funeral. Can funerals be meaningful for the dead, as much as they are for the living?
I am dying.
Watch it here https://vimeo.com/rawmoves/rawground-sg51
Date/ Time 8-10 and 15-17 September 2016, 8pm
Venue RAW Moves Studio
Unsteady
Concept by Wong Xin Ping (Singapore)
Synopsis
What is imagined,
is imagined.
What is real,
is real.
Can what is imagined
be real?
Watch it here https://vimeo.com/rawmoves/rawground-sg51
Date/ Time 8-10 and 15-17 September 2016, 8pm
Venue RAW Moves Studio
1:8
Concept by Melyn Chow (Singapore) and Jeryl Lee (Singapore)
Synopsis
One in every Eight.
I see myself in this probability.
I see myself in that possibility.
One in every Eight.
Watch it here https://vimeo.com/rawmoves/rawground-sg51
Date/ Time 8-10 and 15-17 September 2016, 8pm
Venue RAW Moves Studio
A Swee Way to Fly...
Concept by Matthew Goh (Singapore)
Synopsis
T o T h e V a s t S k i e s I S e a r c h …
What is my Identity?
In the somewhere we belong.
Where is home truly?
When I can’t stand up no more.
This identity,
will it shape or weaken me?
I K e e p S e a r c h i n g …
Watch it here https://vimeo.com/rawmoves/rawground-sg51
Date/ Time 8-10 and 15-17 September 2016, 8pm
Venue RAW Moves Studio
Run An
ther Way
Run Another Way is a movement clinic that serves as an open platform for non-dance practitioners in a non conventional theatre setting. It serves to create opportunities for arts practitioners and public who are not engaged in dance professionally to engage in dance making, and aims to enable all who are interested in movement and dance to discover the body in performance, while making movement relatable and meaningful to the everyday life.
On Display
Concept by Chiew Peishan (Singapore)
In collaboration with Caleb Ming (Singapore)
Synopsis
On Display reflects upon what it means to be human. In particular, it explores an individual’s self-consciousness on the public level — the perception of how one is perceived in the eyes of others. It aims to bring forth an awareness of individuals’ differences in the tendency to direct attention toward the self.
On Display is an inquiry on the ‘performance’ of the body through the act of objectification. It is a ‘social event’ that provides a shared time and space for the performer and audience, where roles of the performer and audience are blurred to become interchangeable throughout the durational experience.
Explored through the mediums of photography and movement, On Display invites the audience to reflect upon the self in the eyes of one, amidst that of others.
Watch it here https://vimeo.com/rawmoves/ondisplay
Date/ Time 4&5 November 2016, 1-4pm and 7-10pm
6 November 2016, 1-4pm
Venue Goodman Arts Centre, Multi-purpose Studios 1 & 2 (Containers)