The Continuum: Beyond The Killing Fields – Australian Premiere
15 - 18 September 2010, 8pm
the Arts Centre, Melbourne
The Continuum: Beyond The Killing Fields marks the tenth year of performance with its Australian Premiere at the Arts Centre, Melbourne. First conceived and directed by Artistic Director Ong Keng Sen in 2001, this moving documentary-performance on Cambodian artists who survived the Khmer Rouge regime is part of the Kenneth Myer Asian Theatre Series—a new biennial season that brings together some of the best examples of contemporary performance located across the broad Asian region. The production is contextualised by a series of public forum, workshops and artist talk that will engage the Australian public. As the war crimes trials continue its controversy in Phnom Penh, The Continuum reminds us of the scars that Pol Pot inflicted, and the fragile yet persevering nature of art.
Asialink Forum
Cultural resistance and continuity in Cambodia
Speakers will include: Ong Keng Sen, Artistic Director, TheatreWorks (Singapore) and Director of The Continuum: Beyond the Killing Fields; Emeritus Professor David Chandler, Monash University
Monday 13 September, 6:00pm-7:30pm
Yasuko Hiraoka Myer Theatre, Level 1,
Sidney Myer Asia Centre
The University of Melbourne
Post-Performance Talk
Thursday 16 September, following the performance
Playhouse, the Arts Centre
Cambodian Classical Dance Workshop
Saturday 18 September, 11:00am-12:30pm
Dancehouse
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Evolution is at the heart of TheatreWorks, one of Singapore’s longest running theatre company. For its landmark 25th year, it celebrates the ties that have shaped its journey so far in the Friends’ Season – Tenderness For The Future.
The season kicks off on 8th April 2010 and will continue till 1st May 2010.
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"I believe in artistic processes as a means to engage the world. Admittedly this is not the interests of all artists but it has been a guiding light in my own choices of work and of priorities. I want to continue to see artists playing vital roles in key issues of the world and of course, increasingly we have to engage with sustainability. However, towards environmental sustainability there has been considerable stasis from the artistic community. I cant say why, for all artists but for myself climate change is still a fairly abstract notion. It is about carbon emission, ozone depletion, deforestation....."
Read more about Ong Keng Sen’s thoughts in which he shared as one of the cultural expert speakers at the Culture|Futures: The Transition to an Ecological Age 2050 held at Copenhagen, Denmark from 7-9 December 2009.
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The Flying Circus Project 2009/2010: an update!
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TheatreWorks / 72-13 presents Flying Circus Project Platform 02 Kutlug Ataman
Internationally renown filmmaker and contemporary artist, Kutlug Ataman will be hosted by the Flying Circus Project. Ataman will present his newest film Journey to the Moon and a special artist talk on his critically acclaimed works.
Journey to the Moon: 18 November 2009 at 8pm
Artist Talk: 19 November at 8pm
EVENT INFORMATION
Flying Circus Project Platform 02
Kutlug Ataman
Date: 18 & 19 November 2009
Time: 8pm
Venue: 72-13 Mohamed Sultan Road
Admission: Free
Please call 6737-7213 or email tworks@singnet.com.sg to register your attendance.
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TheatreWorks / 72-13 presents Flying Circus Project Platform 01 expo zéro by Musée de la Danse
The first-ever dancing museum in Singapore hosted by the Flying Circus Project, expo zéro is a unique exhibition without objects conceived by acclaimed French choreographer, Boris Charmatz and Musée de la Danse. expo zéro is only opened on two days: 7 & 8 November at 72-13, 1pm – 6pm daily.
EVENT INFORMATION
Flying Circus Project Platform 01
expo zéro by Musée de la Danse
Date: 7 – 8 November 2009
Musée hours: 1pm – 6pm daily
Venue: 72-13 Mohamed Sultan Road Singapore 239007
Admission: Free
Please call 6737-7213 or email tworks@singnet.com.sg to register your attendance.
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TheatreWorks Writers’ Laboratory goes to South East District.
A new initiative in the partnership between TheatreWorks Writers’ Laboratory and the South East Community Development Council (CDC) is a series of dramatised readings held at interesting and definitive locations within the South East District. This event will run from October 2009 to February 2010.
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The Good Person of Sezuan
Artistic Director Ong Keng Sen’s production, Bertolt Brecht’s The Good Person of Sezuan, will premiere on 26 September 2009 in Linz at Landestheater, Kammerspiele for Linz 2009 European Capital of Culture. He reflects on his production in the following interview.
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Keng Sen on
"What will the next 2 years bring for the arts?.."
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