Dance Film ‘I Want to Remember’

admin Dance, Projects 14 April 201114 July 2015ASWARA, dance film, Singaporean

Singaporean director Sherman Ong shot some of the material for his short dance film, I Want to Remember, at Rimbun Dahan in April 2011.

A man in an interrogation room remembers his time with his lover when the two countries were one. When the countries separated in 1965, his lover ended their relationship to follow her family. He remembers his carefree past with laughter and tenderness, disappointments and sadness, but never with regret.

I Want to Remember is a dance film premiering at the Singapore Arts Festival 2011, supported by Rimbun Dahan.
Dancers: Mohd Hanafi Bin Rosdi, Ng Xin Ying.
Actors: Dato Rahim Razali, Foo Fei Ling.
DOP: Lesly Leon Lee
Editor/Sound: Azharr Rudin
Music: John Chua http://www.johncgh.com/
and Lena by Azmyl Yunor https://myspace.com/azmylyunor

With thanks to Yuni Hadi, Lim How Ngean, Marion D’Cruz, Bilqis Hijjas & ASWARA.

Dance Shorts III: I Want to Remember

28 May 6.45pm | 80mins (Post show dialogue after the screening)
4 June 6.45pm | 70 mins
Venue: Cinema Europa, Golden Village VivoCity, Singapore

Daniel Jaber

admin Asialink, Dance, Performances 20 November 201022 May 2023Australian, double bill, Malaysian

Australian choreographer Daniel Jaber undertook an Asialink residency at Rimbun Dahan in 2010, with Australian dancers Jessie Mckinlay and Madeline Edwards. He created two works during the residency: WG-Spiel, with Jessie and Madeline, and Poetic Structure, with Malaysian dancers Lau Beh Chin, Hii Ing Fung, Stephanie Lim and Darius Lim Chee Wei. The works were presented at Fonteyn Studio Theatre in Petaling Jaya, from 19-20 November 2010.

WG-Spiel (50 minutes)

WG Spiel delves into the lives and living habits of 3 housemates coexisting in close living quarters. Set to a vibrant and energetic electronic soundtrack, the work charges forth through images of domestic duties, working life, claustrophobia and relationships.

Performed by: Daniel Jaber, Jessie Mckinlay and Madeline Edwards.

Poetic Structure (20 minutes)

Poetic structure redefines traditional choreography in the context of a modern world. Cyberspace, chartrooms and MSN form the communicative dialogues of the performers as they engage in wickedly abstract choreography created by CSS and HTML coding formulas. Commenting on communication, technology and digital engulfment in the 21st century – Poetic Structure is a sophisticatedly structured short dance work created by Daniel Jaber and featuring four outstanding Malaysian dancers.

Performed by: Beh Chin, Hii Ing Fung, Stephanie Lim and Darius Lim Chee Wei.

This program was made possible through an Asialink – performing arts residency and funded by The Government of South Australia through Arts SA, The Australia – Malaysia Institute, Carclew Youth Arts and Rimbun Dahan.

Yumi Umiumare

admin Dance, Open Residencies, Workshops 20 November 201022 May 2023Australian, butoh, Collaboration

Australian-based Japanese choreographer/performer Yumi Umiumare undertook a short residency at Rimbun Dahan in 2010, working with and mentoring performer Natalie Kim Kyungmi, towards a solo work for the Melaka Art+Performance Festival. Yumi also conducted a workshop on 21 November 2010 at The Annexe Central Market.

Yumi is at the forefront of Butoh fusion in Australia, with work across genres, including ‘Butoh Cabaret’. She works internationally and performed first in Australia in the early 90’s with Tokyo Butoh company DaiRakudakan. She has had a commitment to teaching and mentoring for over a decade, initiating with Tony Yap the Beyond Butoh series of annual showings in Melbourne.

Go to the artist’s website: www.yumi.com.au

Dancing in Place 2010

admin Dance, Dancing in Place, Uncategorized 13 August 201013 February 2017Hong Kong, Norway, Philippines, Singaporean, site-specific

3-8pm,7-8 August 2010
Entrance free to the general public.

In the midst of a 14-acre indigenous Malaysian garden, and in the shade of contemporary and traditional architecture, 13 Malaysian and international choreographers presented a collection of site-specific contemporary dance works for Dancing in Place.

The 2010 theme for Dancing in Place was Cross-Pollination. It encouraged choreographers to consider how difference – working with artists from other disciplines, working with people from other cultures or abilities, or working in new environments – creates the potential for rich and vigorous hybridities.

Performers at Dancing in Place this year included Kristine Nilsen Oma (Norway), Elysa Wendi (Singapore), Donna Miranda (Philippines) and Scarlet Yu (Hong Kong), as well nine choreographers from Malaysia including Rathimalar Govindarajoo, Gan Chih Pei, Nurulakmal Abdul Wahid, Muhaini Ahmad, Leng Poh Gee, Fahmi Fadzil and January Low.

In front of 60 turns — ‘In Spirit’, staged at Rimbun Dahan by choreographer Rathimalar Govindarajoo on the lawn in front of the art work ‘Sixty Turns.’

SCHEDULE

*Time*	Item
3pm	Arrival & introduction
3.15pm	The Campus ThoughtChoreographed by Leng Poh Gee & Kathyn Tan Chai Chen Performed by Lim Siew Ling, Lim Hooi Ming, Lim Shin Hui, Tan Shiao Por & Pan May Tzy A work by LAPAR LabAt the same time we are doing this particular performance, a batch of new graduates of the dance degree from University of Malaya is celebrating their graduation. We sincerely dedicate this performance to those who are ready to embark upon their journey into professional dance society, and wish them luck.
3.30pm	13 Knots to HomeCreated and performed by Scarlet Yu Mei Wah Having left her home in Hong Kong ten years ago to live in Singapore, Scarlet Yu has moved from one room to another, one house to another, in a foreign land that has accepted her as an adopted child. In the past ten years, she has made exactly thirteen trips back home to Hong Kong, only to feel more and more distant from the place she once regarded as home.
3.45pm	Dreams InterruptedChoreographed by Elysa Wendi (Singapore) Performed by Ren Wei ChenInspired by the Kun Opera Peony Pavilion, choreographer Elysa Wendi investigates the idea of intangibility and the power of dreams in our life. Dreams interrupted is performed in a series of 5 short segments. Like a dream that happens over a number of days, the audience will slowly find out the full story at the end.
3.54pm	In SpiritChoreographed by Ramli Ibrahim, reworked by Rathimalar Govindarajoo Performed by Michelle Chang, Revathi Tamilselvam, Sivagamavalli, Tan Mei Mei, Divya Nair, and Rathimalar Govindarajoo.An ode to women who celebrate the rhythm of life.
4.15pm	KapayapaanChoreographed and performed by Wong Oi Min & Gan Chih Pei Music by Razali bin Abd. RahimA piece about the celebration of life, conservation of nature and cultivation of compassion.
4.40pm	Similar Choreographed by Nurulakmal Abdul Wahid Performed by Ahmad Zaki B. Mu Salleh @ Musleh, Muhaini Ahmad & Nurulakmal Abdul Wahid A man wears women’s clothing, but he is not a woman. No matter how much he imitates her lovely or sexy movements, he can only be similar. He is only an outline. She fills in the gaps.
4.55pm	ChimeraCreated by Kim Kyungmi, Sasha Ratnam & Mathieu Castel Performed by Kim Kyungmi Music by Mathieu CastelIn the quirky circle of life, we begin as simple cells awakened by meeting each other. Moulded by genetics over which we have no control, we evolve and mutate through human socialisation, finally leaving nothing behind. No predictions, rules or even will can exist in this cycle of energy. The same clone but different mutants, we are born and fade away within this energy of evolution.
5.10pm	Divide & ConquerChoreographed by Fahmi Fadzil Performed by audience volunteersMalaysians love polls. Malaysians love being together. Let’s see if this “poll” performance can keep people together. Or not.
5.20pm	Intermission
5.40pm	SweetChoreographed & performed by January Low Music by Reza Salleh
6.05pm	AchilotCoordinated by Elaine Pedley Assisted by Muhammad Syaffiq bin Hambali Choreographed and performed by the young participants of the Rimbun Dahan Dance WorkshopThe workshop is based on basic movements pieced together by the kids through games and exercises. The focus is on play, hence achilot, a Malay term for various children’s games.
6.30pm	Biji IIChoreographed by Chai Vivan Performed by Fione Chia Yan Wei, Caren Yap Chai Wen, Denny Donius, Chew Sie Theng, Sufi Asyraf b. Mohd Azman, Woo Yan Ten & Anna Lee See Wan.Something small springs into growth. From the seed comes life.
6.50pm	Anything less is less than a reckless actChoreographed and performed by Donna Miranda Dramaturgy by Angelo V. Suarez Featuring (on video) PJ Rebullida & Marah ArcillaTo go to the theatre, to go shopping, to watch a dance performance or the latest Hollywood movie—any aesthetic experience is informed by a decision-making process. This entails a necessary foreclosure: to choose one experience means not experiencing another. With the use of two rooms that cannot be experienced by the audience simultaneously—one with a video featuring two dancers in a duet, another where Miranda talks about the video’s context—Anything less is less than a reckless act allows room for participation. This in turn exposes the futility of the concept of participation in theatre, a prohibitive system designed to distinguish performer from audience. To risk the audience’s subjectivity by giving them a measure of activity is to risk theatre itself.
7.40pm	Marilyn Monroe’s last 20 minutes before committing suicide Created and performed by Kristine Nilsen Oma Video art by Kok Siew Wai The work is an experiential exploration of the Buddhist concept that earthly desires can lead to enlightenment. The work is a response to meeting a whole new environment and culture, and a personal quest to understand both my own desires and how to make them come from a higher perspective. In the context of the Third World certain neuroses becomes ridiculous. Yet they were created as a response to the Western world I have lived in all my life. How do I cope in the Third World? How will my neuroses behave? Is there a control in this experiment? This last item is not appropriate for children.

Artists in Dancing in Place 2010 observing the performances from their green room.

Youth Dance Workshops by Elaine Pedley

admin Dance, Workshops 14 July 201014 July 2015outreach, youth

Diajar oleh Elaine Pedley

Bengkel dan persembahan akan diadakan di Bilik Tari, Rimbun Dahan, Km 27 Jalan Kuang, Kuang, Selangor 48050.

Tarikh bengkel:

Ahad 1hb Ogos, 10 pagi – 12 tengah hari
Sabut 7 Ogos, 10 pagi – 2.30 petang (makan tengah hari akan dihidangkan)

Tarikh persembahan kepada orang ramai:

Sabtu 7 Ogos, kira-kira 5.45 petang
Ahad 8 Ogos, kira-kira 5.45 petang

Syarat-syarat:

Untuk peserta lelaki atau perempuan berumur 11-16 tahun sahaja, dari kawasan Sungai Buloh/Kuang
Peserta diminta hadir untuk kedua-dua sesi bengkel dan kedua-dua persembahan
Bengkel ini tidak memerlukan kebolehan tari atau pengalaman menari, hanya keminatan.
Peserta-peserta diminta memakai pakaian sukan dan membawa botol air sendiri.

Semasa bengkel ini, Elaine Pedley akan memperkenalkan beberapa kaedah untuk mencipta tarian moden sekumpulan. Selepas tamatnya bengkel ini, peserta-peserta akan mempersembahkan tarian yang telah direka kepada orang ramai, sebagai sebuah acara untuk pesta tari Dancing in Place yang akan dijalankan di Rimbun Dahan pada hari Sabtu & Ahad 7 & 8 Ogos.

Untuk sebarang pertanyaan tolong hubungi Bilqis Hijjas, Pengarah Program Tari di Rimbun Dahan: 017 310 3769 atau bhijjas@gmail.com

Elaine Pedley telah bekerja di dalam bidang tari dan lakonan selama dua puluh tahun, di dalam persembahan teater sepertiFamily (di Berlin Arts Festival 1999 di Jerman), Manchester United and the Malay Warrior (di Manchester, semasa Pesta Budaya Sukan Komanwel 2002), Spring in Kuala Lumpur (sebuah kolaborasi bersama kumpulan teater Jepun Pappa Tarahumara), Spilt Gravy on Rice (yang telah memenangi Lakonan Terbaik dalam Anugerah Seni BOH Cameronian) danBunga Manggar Bunga Raya yang telah direka oleh Datin Marion D’Cruz.

Elaine pernah juga bekerja di dalam industri filem, dengan lakonan untuk filem, televisyen, siri VCD, serta bekerja sebagai pelakon dan ahli koreografi untuk iklan siaran televisyen. Beliau telah bekerja sebagai ahli koreografi dan perunding persembahan untuk beberapa peraduan fitness seperti Miss Malaysia Fitness 2004, Miss Asia Pacific Woman Fitness 2004 championships, International Fitness Women’s Championships 2005 dan Fitkid International Championships 2007.

Pengalaman teaternya telah membawa Elaine ke Paris, Cannes, Noumea, Beijing, Shanghai, Berlin, Manchester, Bangalore, Singapore dan Bali. Beliau telah juga dilantik sebagai calon untuk beberapa anugerah di dalam Anugerah Seni BOH Cameronian, termasuk Pelakon Terbaik (2007 & 2009) dan Persembahan Kumpulan Terbaik di dalam bidang teater dan tari (2008 & 2010), dan beliau telah berjaya menang anugerah Kumpulan Tari Terbaik pada tahun 2002.

Bodies Across Boundaries

admin Dance, Open Residencies, Performances 28 April 201022 May 2023Australian, Contemporary dance, Malaysian, mixed bill, multidisciplinary

From 22 to 24 April 2010, the Dance Programme at Rimbun Dahan presented Bodies across Boundaries: two dance works by Malaysian choreographers & performed by Australian dancers, plus two dance works by Australian choreographers & performed by Malaysian dancers.

In the studio and on stage, we reached across the seas, building bridges with our bodies, and showing that differences of language, background, and home are no barrier to moving together.

‘Bodies Across Boundaries’ presented two new contemporary dance works by acclaimed Malaysian choreographers Amy Len and Suhaili Ahmad Kamil, performed by a group of powerful young Australian dancers. The show also included two contemporary dance works performed by talented Malaysian dancers including Hii Ing Fung, Stephanie Lim, An Nur Azhar, and Bilqis Hijjas, and created by Australian artists who have been in residence at Rimbun Dahan.

8.30pm Friday 22 April, Saturday 23 April 2010
3pm Sunday 24 April 2010
The Actors Studio, Rooftop at Lot 10 Shopping Centre, Jalan Sultan Ismail

Presented by the Dance Programme at Rimbun Dahan
Supported by the Australia Malaysia Institute and the Australian High Commission

Works in the Program

STRINGS is a multidisciplinary work involving Australian visual artist Rochelle Haley, who will be making live drawings in response to the movements of dancers on stage. The dancers themselves will respond to the projection of the drawings as they develop, creating an intricate web of causal connections between the two dimensions of the paper and the three dimensions of the bodies on stage.

SHUTTLING is a dance work choreographed by award-winning Malaysian choreographer Amy Len and performed by the three Australian dancers currently resident at Rimbun Dahan, as well as three of Amy’s dancers from Kwang Tung Dance Company. The work is about the unconscious memories that are aroused when people from different backgrounds meet.

DAZZLE was created by Australian choreographer Angela Goh for three Malaysian dancers — Hii Ing Fung, Stephanie Lim and Jojo Wong, two of whom she worked with when she was first in residence at Rimbun Dahan in 2009. The work explores the idea of camouflage and deception, being seen and not seen, and how hiding the face makes someone inhuman.

WONDERWHATTALAND has been created by hit Malaysian choreographer Suhaili Micheline with the three Malaysian dancers. A crazy trip inspired by Alice in Wonderland, it includes rap songs made of the names of Malaysian food: gulp, slurp, chomp! Pulling out the bizarre in the most everyday things, Wonderwhattaland will be a work that sends the audience out giggling but thinking.

Arco Renz & Amrita Performing Arts

admin Dance, Performances, Southeast Asian Arts Residency 27 March 201022 May 2023Cambodia, Collaboration, Contemporary dance, Germany

In 2010, Brussels-based choreographer Arco Renz and dancers from Amrita Performing Arts, Cambodia, spent an intensive residency at Rimbun Dahan developing the new work Crack, commissioned by the Singapore Arts Festival 2011.

The development concluded with a work-in-progress showing, “Cracking in Progress” at The Actors Studio Theatre @ Lot 10 Rooftop, on 27 March 2010. During the showing, Arco will presented and explaiedn the movement material created so far and the dance tasks he has set for the Cambodian dancers. Arco and the Amrita dancers also discussed and took questions on their work.

Crack is a performance about the developing individuality of a new generation of Cambodians after their civil war – their conflicts, hopes, dreams, and desires. Physically exploring the themes of emergence from isolation towards integration in the complexities of the contemporary world, this performance promises to ascribe and describe through contemporary dance, music and performance the zeitgeist of a new country.

About Arco Renz

A protegee of famed Belgian minimalist dance artist Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, Arco Renz’s productions reveal an intense physicality and explore the emotional force of abstraction. In his creations he consistently broadens the principles of Abstract Dramaturgy to light, sound and multimedia interfaces. Kobalt Works is the production organization founded by Arco Renz. Since the establishment of Kobalt Works in 2000, Arco Renz has developed a successful artistic track, creating and touring several performances as well as developing transcultural and multidisciplinary research and exchange programs. He presented ‘heroine’, a solo work by Taiwanese dancer Wen-Chi Su, at the Singapore Arts Festival 2010.

About Amrita Performing Arts

Amrita Performing Arts is an international NGO based in Phnom Penh whose mission is to preserve the spectrum of Cambodia’s traditional performing arts, while nurturing contemporary artistic expression. In 2011 they presented ‘Khmeropedies I & II’ at the Esplanade, Singapore, created by former Baryshnikov dancer Emmanuèle Phuon.

Gesek-Gosok by ASWARA Work Placement Students

admin Dance, Projects 19 January 201014 July 2015ASWARA, site-specific

Two students from the second year of the degree program at ASWARA, Malaysia’s national arts university, spent a month as work placement students at Rimbun Dahan as part of the requirements for their course.

Sufinah Abu Bakar and Shafirul Azmi were linked with the dance programme at Rimbun Dahan from 14 Dec to 8 January. During their time at Rimbun Dahan, they worked on several new dance works, including one for a book launch by the Centre of Orang Asli Affairs and another to ring in the New Year.

Gesek-Gosok was performed on New Year’s Eve in and around the reflective pool at Rimbun Dahan. To Indochine-themed music, the group of seven dancers from ASWARA and Balletbase paraded with parasols, lowered themselves into water troughs, and paddled serenely through the waterlilies, to the great delight of the onlookers. Photographs below by Akshay Sateesh.

Sufinah binti Abu Bakar, now 24, was born in Kuala Lumpur and is currently living in Sungai Buloh. A second year student in the Bachelor of Dance program at ASWARA, Sufinah has been trained in classical Malay dance as well as Chinese dance, Bharatanatyam, folk dance, ballet, contemporary and modern. She has worked with local choreographers such as Joseph Gonzales, Umesh Shetty, Zhou Gui Xin, A. Aris A. Kadir, Shafirul Azmi, Choo Tee Kuang, Loke Soke Kim, and Gan Chih Pei. She has danced in various local ASWARA performances including Jamu, Stepping Out, Langkah, traditional Mak Yong theatre, Randai, Bangsawan, the dance drama Huminodun and Asyik. Sufinah has performed in the musicals Puteri Gunung Ledang, Rubiah and Ibu Zain, and has also performed overseas in ASWARA collaborations in Singapore, with RTM in Brunei, Festival Tari Nusantara in Palembang, Indonesia, and the 6th and 8th Asian Art Festivals in Beijing. Sufinah’s television work includes video clips for Hafiz AF7 and Pisau Cukur, commercials for Mummy Slrpp and BOH Tea, and RTM and TV3 programs.

Originally from Sabah, Shafirul Azmi bin Suhaimi began his career in art when he was 18 years old, as a cultural artist for Lembaga Kebudayaan Negeri Sabah (1998) and Badan Kesenian Negeri Kedah (1999). After receiving his diploma in choreography from ASWARA, Shafirul choreographed for Badan Kesenian Negeri Kedah in 2005 and Majlis Perbandaran Ampang Jaya before continuing his studies at ASWARA for his Bachelors. Shafirul in currently a lecturer at ASWARA as well as a dance artist in the local industry. He has been involved in many contemporary performances including Gerak Angin (Sutra Dance Theatre), Jamming The Box (Nyoba Kan and The Actors Studio), Curfew (Five Arts Center), Spring In Kuala Lumpur (Japan Foundation), AWAS (ASWARA) and The Light Show (Annexe Central Market). His musical work includes Ronggeng Rokiah, ANTARA, P. Ramlee, Kasih Menanti and Tun Abdul Razak at Istana Budaya, and TUNKU at KLPac. His own choreographic works are IBN, Let’s Swim, Kabur, Tabung Uji, Niaki, Pipit, Hari+Hari, Escape, Typhoon, Transporter, Shakti, Tapak 4 and Cik Mah. Shafirul is always looking for unusual ideas for traditional-based art works, and favours productions with a collaborative element.

One Day of Workshops by Karen Lacey

admin Arts, Dance, Workshops 17 November 20097 May 2015

Another day of dance at Rimbun Dahan, this time with British dance teacher Karen Lacey.

Still trying to nail those fouettes? Don’t know your layout from your lying down? Or just want to hone the skills you have and learn some slick sassy new repertoire while you’re at it?

10 – 10.30 — Registration and warmup
10.30 – 11.45 am — Contemporary class
11.45 – 1 pm — Contemporary repertoire
1 – 2 pm — lunch
2 – 3.15pm — Jazz class
3.15 – 4.30pm — Jazz repertoire

Price: RM 50 for whole day, RM 30 for either morning or afternoon session, lunch included.

For intermediate to advanced dancers, aged 14 and above.

Places are limited. To register, please contact Bilqis at bhijjas@gmail.com or 017 310 3769, with your name, age, email address, phone number and dietary restrictions, if any.

ABOUT KAREN LACEY

Karen is the Artistic Director for professional group RE-Creation UK www.myspace.com/re_creationuk which has received national and International acclaim. She has been awarded various choreography awards for her Jazz, Musical Theatre and Fusion styles, including Champion Place for Contemporary at the Tuscany International Dance Festival and Artistic Direction award at the Barcelona International Dance Festival this year. Her choreography has been seen in the commercial world for clients such as the BBC, Ribena, Pearsons Publishers and Italian television.

After completing her BA Hons in Performing Arts – Dance in 2002, Karen started work as manager for the Beverly Marks Stage School, where she is responsible for the coordination of the school’s competitive events calendar and choreography for the teams, director of the bi-annual shows performed at local professional theatres and the teaching of Jazz, Contemporary and Dance Technique.

Karen’s skills are ensuring strong basic technique is in place for all her students and then working with the varying strengths of each individual group to create exciting, interesting choreography that both the performers and audience can engage in and fitting the brief for the competitive floor, theatrical performance or television.

Dancing in Place 2009

admin Arts, Dance, Dancing in Place 23 May 200913 July 2015Dancing in Place, site-specific

Draped around trees. Crawling through sculptures. Underwater. Underground?

Experience contemporary dance as you’ve never seen it before!

In the midst of a 14-acre indigenous Malaysian garden, and in the shade of contemporary and traditional architecture, seven emerging choreographers will present a collection of site-specific contemporary dance works.

In conjunction with the Art for Nature visual art exhibition, whose theme this year is Tanah Air, these works will lure us to unusual venues, or challenges us to view familiar places in new ways. Chance and circumstance — the weather, quality of light, ambient noise, mood of the crowd — will shape our experience.

Date: Saturday & Sunday, 23 & 24 May, 4-7pm
Venue: In and around the gardens and architecture of Rimbun Dahan, Km. 27 Jln Kuang, Kuang, Selangor.
Free Entrance

Photos on this page by Antradika Hamzah, Hafiz Hamdan, Bilqis Hijjas and Lee Wey Jiun.

1. Octagon in the Round
Informed by environment, this solo will be created and danced simultaneously. One body will move in response to current experiences of space, sound, architecture, audience, movement and texture, thus constructing a solo in and of the present moment.

Performed by Angela Goh, Rimbun Dahan resident choreographer.

2. Orpheus X
When Orpheus’ wife Eurydice was killed by the bite of a serpent, he went down to the underworld to bring her back. His songs were so beautiful that Hades finally agreed to allow Eurydice to return to the world of the living, under one condition: Orpheus must not look back as he was conducting her to the surface. Just before the pair reached the upper world, Orpheus looked back, and Eurydice slipped back into the netherworld once again. One last word — “Farewell…” — then she was gone forever.

Choreographed by Low Shee Hoe.
Performed by Khor Beng Hooi, Kyo Hong Xi Fan, Lee Wey Jiun, Lian Bee Ngo, Saw Li Wai, Stephanie Tan Lei Mooi and Woon Li Hwa from Charlie Tan Dance Theatre.

3. Can You Dance Better Than A Fourth Grader?
Ever thought you’d be challenged in dance by a 4th grader? Learn a quick sketch of steps from these young kids. Don’t be shy and clumsy as they will be impatient and
disappointed! Then the Cool Club shows you how it’s done, the weird, wacky teenagers keeping everything cool simply by ‘wassup-ing’ the environment.

Choreographed by Suhaili Micheline binti Ahmad Kamil.
Performed by Cheryl Soh, Erica Liew, Farah Sofea Nadzri, Falihah Asyiqin Nadzri, Wan Aiqha Liyana, Janice Yong, Siti Amellia, Teo May Jean, Ng Xin Ying, Ayu Azril Ali and Mohd Azizi Mansor.

4. Quintessence
In classical philosophy, four elements – air, fire, water, earth – explain the patterns of nature. The realm of human life makes a fifth.

Choreographed and performed by Rathimalar Govindarajoo.