dNA REUNION PROJECT by DPACVenue: Theater, Black Box & White Sand Cafe Date / Time: 26 April 2018 (Thu) ~ 8.00am : Nett MYR 30.00 27 April 2018 (Fri) ~ 8.00pm : Normal MYR 45.00, Student MYR 40.00 28 April 2018 (Sat) ~ 8.00pm : Normal MYR 45.00, Student MYR 40.00 29 April 2018 (Sun) ~ 8.00pm : Normal MYR 45.00, Student MYR 40.00
DNA REUNION
PROJECT
presented by
DPAC
The d'Next
Artist Project is a project launched by the DPAC in 2014 to promote a new
generation of artists. It hopes to provide a free platform for local emerging
artists to create and perform. In contrast to previous years, DPAC brought
together the first five d'NA participants this year to develop a new project
called “d'Next Artist Reunion Project (DNA Reunion Project)”. It continues to
support local artists while further expanding and enhancing the Malaysian art
industry and is committed to creating a Humanities community.
This year,
the “DNA Reunion Project” team elaborately selected five works. In addition to
the integration of traditional and modern elements, the works deconstructed
various issues related to human nature and self-resonance. DPAC also hopes to
use this program to bring a richer art space to the local area and allow the
audience to see the beauty in the madness of performing arts. The DNA Reunion
Project will be held at the DPAC Theater, Black Box and the White Sand Cafe
from 26 to 29 April, at 8:00pm respectively.
Featuring :
1. Nik Waheeda, Timmy Ong & Jinn Lau
2. Kenny Shim, Wee Jia Foong
3. Khairi Anwar & Cech Adrea
4. Haris Hazizan, Asyraf Nazmie & Leya Bahri
Date/Time:
26 April 2018 (Thu), 8.00 PM
27 April 2018 (Fri). 8.00 PM
28 April 2018 (Sat), 8.00 PM
29 April 2018 (Sun), 8.00 PM
Genre:
Dance, Theatre, Musical, Music
Venue:
Black Box and the White Sand Cafe
Performance Duration:
120 minutes with 15 minutes intermission
Ticket Information:
RM45.00 (Normal)
RM40.00 (Student & Dcard Holder)
Opening Night Promotion:RM30 Nett (only available for 26 April 2018, Thursday performance)
Ticket Office:
1. Damansara Performing Arts Centre
H-01, DPAC, Empire Damansara
Jalan PJU 8/8, Damansara Perdana,
47820 Petaling Jaya, Selangor.
Tel: +60 3 4065 0001, 4065 0002
TRIPLE BILL by Kenny Shim & CollectiveDate/Time:
4th May 2018 (Fri), 8.30 PM
5th May 2018 (Sat), 3.30 PM
5th May 2018 (Sat), 8.30 PM
6th May 2018 (Sun), 3.30 PM
6th May 2018 (Sun), 8.30 PM
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TRIPLE BILL by Kenny Shim & CollectiveVenue: Black Box, DPAC Date / Time: 4 May 2018 (Fri) ~ 8.30pm : MYR 42.00 5 May 2018 (Sat) ~ 3.30pm, 8.30pm : MYR 42.00 6 May 2018 (Sun) ~ 3.30pm, 8.30pm : MYR 42.00Triple Bill of Contemporary Dance Works
choreography by Kenny Shim & Collective
1.Winged Wolves and the Bamboo Mew
2.Pieces of Three Movements
3.Rite
Choreography by Kenny Shim and Collective
Music by Onn San
Costume by Man Chien
Multimedia by Wee Jia Foong
A performance of three (3) contemporary dance works – two (2) of which are newly crafted; Winged Wolves and the Bamboo Mew & Pieces of Three Movements and one (1) a re-stage; Rite.Winged Wolves and the Bamboo Mew, an original choreography by Kenny Shim. Winged Wolves and the Bamboo Mew initiates it’s creative process by using Frühlings Erwachen; Spring Awakening, as a catalyst.
Spring Awakening is Frank Wedekind’s most popular play and one of seminal dramatic works of late 19th century literature. It depicts the struggles of a group of pubertal adolescents trying to come to terms with their burgeoning sexual desires. The subtitle of the play reads ‘Eine Kindertragödie’ (‘A children’s tragedy’). The tragedy of the adolescents depicted in the play lies in the fact that they are left alone with their questions, their doubts, their longings and their feelings of guilt by their parents and teachers, in some cases with fatal consequences. Wedekind attacks the disciplinarian and prudish society of his day, which is depicted as doing considerable harm with its attempt to cover up and suppress sexual desires.
Pieces of Three Movements, an original choreography by Kenny Shim & Lee Jia-Xi. Multimedia by Wee Jia Foong. This piece is a collaborative project between the MEDIA art and DANCE art. The core explore is to test the visual state of being. The embodiment of what is seen, sight and the poetics of the screen and body.Rite, a re-stage choreography by Kenny Shim. Rite is a piece created to challenge the idea of masculinity. The piece itself is framed within the idea of rite of passage.
AMOK by Alliance FrancaiseVenue: Theatre, DPAC Date / Time: 4 May 2018 (Fri) ~ 8.30pm : Normal MYR 50.00, Concession MYR 45.00 5 May 2018 (Sat) ~ 8.30pm : Normal MYR 50.00, Concession MYR 45.00AMOK
presented by Alliance Française
One night in March 1912, on the deck of a ship dashing towards Europe.
While other passengers laugh, have fun and dance, a man shies away. He bears a
secret that has become too heavy for him and will unburden himself from it in
the dark. This young doctor is running away from Malaysia where he has worked
for five years, in the middle of the jungle, until a mysterious woman came to
ask for help ...
A feverish tale of a race against death where passion mingles with madness,
where the obsession over a woman is similar to the amok, this sudden fit of
murderous rampage.
The French Festival 2018 presents -exclusively in Malaysia- this play
adapted from Stefan Zweig's short story; Alexis Moncorgé’s brilliant
interpretation earned him the Molière (French national theatre award) 2016 for
Best Male Newcomer.
[Play in French with
English subtitles]
Une nuit de mars 1912, sur le pont d’un navire qui file vers
l’Europe ; pendant que les autres passagers rient, s’amusent et dansent,
un homme se tient à l’écart. Il a un secret trop lourd à porter, il s’en
délivre en confidences à la faveur de l’obscurité. Ce jeune médecin fuit la
Malaisie où il a exercé cinq ans durant, au milieu de la jungle, jusqu’au jour
où une mystérieuse femme vient son assistance...
Récit fiévreux d’une course contre la mort où la passion se confond à la
folie, où l’obsession pour une femme ressemble à l’amok, cette soudaine
crise de folie meurtrière...
Le French Festival 2018 vous présente -en exclusivité en Malaisie- cette
pièce de théâtre adaptée de la nouvelle de Stefan Zweig et dont l’interprétation
brillante d’Alexis Moncorgé lui valut le Molière 2016 de la révélation
masculine.
[La pièce sera en
français sous-titré anglais]
Date/Time:
4th May 2018 (Fri), 8.30 PM
5th May 2018 (Sat), 8.30 PM
Genre:
Theatre
Venue:
Theatre, DPAC
Ticket Information:
RM50.00 (Normal)
RM45.00 (AFKL)
RM45.00 (Dcard Holder)
** For AFKL, kindly please proceed to Box Office,DPAC to purchase the tickets.
Ticket Office:
1.Damansara Performing Arts Centre
H-01, DPAC, Empire Damansara
Jalan PJU 8/8, Damansara Perdana,
47820 Petaling Jaya, Selangor.
Tel: +60 3 4065 0001, 4065 0002
Of Garden Fragrance & Love by Kiwanis Club Of TTDIDate/Time:
6th May 2018 (Sunday), 7.45 PM
A concert for the charity of underprivileged children.
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Of Garden Fragrance & Love by Kiwanis Club Of TTDIVenue: Theatre, DPAC Date / Time: 6 May 2018 (Sun) ~ 7.45pm : MYR 150.00 : MYR 200.00Of Garden Fragrance & Love
presented by Kiwanis Club Of TTDI
A concert for the charity of underprivileged children.
The concert is presented by four musicians, a soprano, an oboist, a violist and a pianist. It is essentially a Lieder (German songs) recital, but interpolated with instrumental items for coloristic variety such as oboe solo, oboe and viola duet, oboe, viola and piano trio. All the items are related to garden, what you can see and smell and feel there, the flowers, the pond, the gardener and even a mythical figure, scenes of nature and also the emotions inspired by all this. We have also selected some Chinese and Indonesian art songs – again, relating to garden – to reflect the multicultural society we live in. The concert will end with a well known song in English “Edelweiss” arranged by Chee Yean for the four instruments just for the occasion.
Soprano: Ang Mei Foong
Mei Foong’s voice was described as mellow, dulcet and soothing to the listeners. A multiple awards and scholarships winner, she was trained at the National Taiwan Normal University, Conservatorio di Musica Santa Cecilia, and the University of Melbourne. She is now a PhD candidate from University Putra Malaysia.
As an active soloist, Mei Foong has given well received performances in Kuala Lumpur, Penang, Johor Baru, Rome, Melbourne, Taiwan, Macau and Hong Kong, where she performed Robert Schumann’s Frauenliebe und Leben, Gabriel Faure’s La Bonne Chanson, Richard Strauss’s Vier letzte Lieder, Aldo Finzi’s Art Songs, Alban Berg’s Sieben frühe Lieder, Joseph Canteloube’s Chants d’auvergne, Handel's Ode for St. Cecilia's Day, Handel's Messiah, and Beethoven's Symphony No. 9.
In 2013, Mei Foong made her Malaysia opera debut playing the title role in Bizet's opera Carmen with the EST opera company (now known as KL City Opera, KLCO), which had been received warmly at Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Her other recent theatrical performances included The Mother in Menotti’s Amahl and the Night Visitors with KLCO in 2014, and both the roles Carmen and Mercedes in Bizet’s Carmen with MPO in 2015; In 2016, she performed with KLCO as Mimì in Puccini’s La bohème; and most recently The First Lady in Mozart's Die Zauberflöte with MPO in Jan 2017, and Contessa Almaviva in Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro with KLCO in Oct 2017. Mei Foong's love for contemporary music always led her to work closely with the contemporary composers. She has had vocal works composed specifically for her and dedicated to her.
While enjoying her busy performance career, she is also lecturing at UPM and serving as an active voice researcher in the field of voice rehabilitation, specifically for patients with chronic diseases.
She is also a columnist in the local Chinese press, Sin Chew Daily.
Oboe: Joost Flach
Joost graduated in 1983 from the Sweelinck Conservatory in Amsterdam. His teachers were Carlo Ravelli and Han De Vries, who trained him in the Dutch style of oboe playing. During his studies, he was an oboe / cor anglais player in the Dutch National Youth Orchestra, and he freelanced occasionally in the Netherlands Chamber Orchestra and the Pepijn Wind Ensemble.
Having lived and worked in South East Asia since 1984, Joost has been an oboist in the Bangkok Symphony Orchestra and Kuala Lumpur Symphony Orchestra before he took on the Sub-Principal Oboe position in the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra. Over the years, he has made himself known to the music circle regionally, and numerous contemporary Asian composers have composed music especially for him. In addition, he has also given recitals and workshops together with an accompanying pianist in Singapore and Shanghai.
Joost is also an enthusiast in music education. He has lectured at the Institut Seni Indonesia in Jogjakarta as part of a Dutch governmental education programme and was also a music inspector and educational project officer with the Ministry of Education in Singapore.
He has conducted several community and school bands, and many of his students are now professional players or conductors. He practically founded a wind ensemble everywhere he worked - Ansamble Tiup Jogjakarta and Singapore Sling Ensemble. He has been an artistic leader of the High Winds Wind Ensemble in Kuala Lumpur for the past 9 years and during these years, he has collected an impressive and tasteful library of music for wind instruments. Experience has convinced him that performing chamber music contributes the most to the development and growth in the quality of wind players.
Viola: Jeremy Chiew
Violist Jeremy Chiew graduated with a Masters in Viola Performance from the Longy School of Music of Bard College, under the tutelage of Dimitri Murrath.
A recipient of the Patricia Sherman Award, Jeremy's concerto appearances include The Chamber Players and ESO. He freelances with the Macao Orchestra, re: sound Collective, The Philharmonic Orchestra (TPO), Singapore Lyric Opera (SLO), and re:mix.
Keen to explore the mind-body connection in music-making and learning, Jeremy applies Alexander and Dalcroze techniques to his playing and teachings, and is an Associate Artiste with the Odyssey Dance Theatre. He currently coaches various secondary school string ensembles and maintains a small private teaching studio.
Jeremy curates Viva Viola, an annual concert recital since 2015 aimed at increasing awareness of this lesser-known member of the string family.
Piano: Wong Chee Yean
Chee Yean graduated from Indiana University, Bloomington in the USA, where he was under the tutelage of Mr Emile Naoumoff, who himself was a student of the great pedagogue Nadia Boulanger.
As a performer, Chee Yean has collaborated with some very fine musicians from the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra in their Chamber Music Series, both as a pianist and a harpsichordist. His solo repertoire includes some of the most challenging repertoire of the 19th century such as the Liszt and the Chopin B minor Sonatas. He also frequently works with instrumentalists and singers alike, notably, with the internationally renowned clarinettist Ronald van Spandonck during his concert tour to Malaysia. In 2013, a live recording of Chee Yean’s performance of Mozart’s 25th Piano Concerto in collaboration with High Winds Ensemble in Yogjakarta was issued by Arts Music Today in Indonesia.
As a composer, though never been formally trained, two of his orchestral works, Six Sketches and Triptych, were performed by the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra. Five of his songs for voice and piano published by Chin Yong Music Society have received their premieres in Malaysia, Singapore, China and the U.K. On Huygen’s Aria, commissioned by Joost Flach for High Winds Ensemble was published in Germany by Floricor Edition in 2010. He also arranges music for the wind ensemble on numerous occasions, one of which is the arrangement of Mozart 25th Piano Concerto with himself as the soloist, performed at the Georgetown Festival of Penang in and at the International Chamber Music Festival of Yogjakarta.
Date/Time:
6th May 2018 (Sunday), 7.45 PM
Venue:
Theatre, DPAC
Genre:
Music
Performance Duration:
90 minutes including 1 intermission
Ticket Information:
RM150.00
RM200.00
Ticket Office:
1. Damansara Performing Arts Centre
H-01, DPAC, Empire Damansara
Jalan PJU 8/8, Damansara Perdana,
47820 Petaling Jaya, Selangor.
Tel: +60 3 4065 0001, 4065 0002
2. Sherlyssa - 012-3510703
Motherland by T'ang Dance ProjectDate/Time:
25th May 2018 (Fri), 8.00 PM
26th May 2018 (Sat), 3.00 PM
26th May 2018 (Sat), 8.00 PM
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Motherland by T'ang Dance ProjectVenue: Black Box, DPAC Date / Time: 25 May 2018 (Fri) ~ 8.00pm : Normal MYR 45.00, Concession MYR 30.00 26 May 2018 (Sat) ~ 3.00pm, 8.00pm : Normal MYR 45.00, Concession MYR 30.00MOTHERLAND
presented by T'ang Dance Project
We all have our own battles to fight, our own scars to wear, and our own traumas to carry. The trauma of separation happens the moment we are born, as we leave our mothers' wombs. Trauma lies beneath our skins, passes through generations, resurfaces when we least expect. What happens then? How do we rise above what is left, reclaim, return to, and become masters of our selves and bodies?
Motherland is a dialogue through movement, text, and voice, between Malaysian choreographer Tang Sook Kuan and Singaporean theatre-maker Jean Toh. Drawing on their personal narratives, they explore the duality and mutuality of two lives and their shared roots, memories, and hopes for their homes, across bodies of land, water, flesh, and memory.
Motherland was first presented in 2017 as part of the 14th Johor Bahru Arts Festival.
The Tree with Wings by Spain EmbassyVenue: Black Box, DPAC Date / Time: 27 May 2018 (Sun) ~ 12.00pm, 4.00pm : Normal MYR 50.00, Student MYR 40.00The Tree with Wings
presented by Spain Embassy
The Embassy of Spain in Malaysia together with the Damansara Performing Arts Centre (DPAC) has the pleasure to jointly present the show: “The Tree with Wings” by the Anabel Veloso Flamenco Company. This show is a great opportunity for children to experience the traditional Spanish art of Flamenco, which has achieved worldwide renown, being declared as part of humanities intangible cultural heritage by UNESCO.
The Anabel Veloso Flamenco Company, a renowned Spanish group,will be in charge of bringing “The Tree with Wings” to the Malaysian public for the first time. “The Tree with Wings” brings this traditional spectacle of music and dance to children (From 1 to 12 years old), giving them their first experience with Flamenco. The show first premiered in 2016, during the last Flamenco Bienal of Seville, the most representative Flamenco event worldwide, to great acclaim, and has been nominated to multiple awards. The show aims to incite children curiosity not only with Flamenco, but also in music and dance in general, with a very visual, colorful, rhythmic, and delicate performance!
Date/Time:
27th May 2018 (Sunday),12.00 PM
27th May 2018 (Sunday) 4.00 PM
Genre:
Dance
Venue:
Black Box, DPAC
Performance Duration:
60 minutes with 15 minutes intermission
Ticket Information:
RM50.00 (Normal)
RM45.00 (Dcard Holder)
RM40.00 (Children below 12 yrs old)
*Free entrance for children 4 yrs old.
**Kindly present your student ID for verification upon ticket collection.
***All tickets are inclusive of RM3.00 ticket handling fee and 6% GST.
Ticket Office:
1.Damansara Performing Arts Centre
H-01, DPAC, Empire Damansara
Jalan PJU 8/8, Damansara Perdana,
47820 Petaling Jaya, Selangor.
Tel: +60 3 4065 0001, 4065 0002
EIGHT TWELVE by Eight TwelveDate/Time:
5th June 2018 (Tue), 8.00 PM
6th June 2018 (Wed), 8.00 PM
Debut concert of a newly formed fusion ensemble “Eight Twelve" in Malaysia
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EIGHT TWELVE by Eight TwelveVenue: Theatre, DPAC Date / Time: 5 June 2018 (Tue) ~ 8.00pm : MYR 88.00 : MYR 68.00 6 June 2018 (Wed) ~ 8.00pm : MYR 88.00 : MYR 68.00EIGHT TWELVE
presented by Eight Twelve
Debut concert of a newly formed fusion ensemble in Malaysia. Eight Twelve combines the creative elements of Chinese and Western music, signifies an exploratory journey into innovative musical sounds covering an expansive musical genre ranging from classical, oldies, jazz, pop music, and contemporary music to new age.
Date/Time:
5th June 2018 (Tue), 8.00 PM
6th June 2018 (Wed), 8.00 PM
Genre:
Music
Venue:
Theatre
Perfomance Duration: 90 minutes including 10 minutes intermission
Dear Parents Concert by Sonata Music & ArtDate/Time:
12th June 2018 (Tue), 8.00 PM
13th June 2018 (Wed), 8.00 PM
A concert in celebration of parents love & sacrifice
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Dear Parents Concert by Sonata Music & ArtVenue: Theatre, DPAC Date / Time: 12 June 2018 (Tue) ~ 8.00pm : MYR 120.00 : MYR 150.00 : MYR 120.00 13 June 2018 (Wed) ~ 8.00pm : MYR 150.00 : MYR 120.00 : MYR 120.00Dear Parents Concert
presented by Sonata Music & Art
A Concert was held because the passion to share and educate. To commemorate this meaningful event, teachers & students has come together to plan this concert as a form of appreciation.
It will be a night of laughter, joy, tears & above all, LOVE
